Recent Books

  • Gynocide

    Price: $14.95

    Gynocide
    Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women
    Edited by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

    How much of contemporary medical practice still derives from a practice rooted in the witch-hunts that plagued Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, and burned at the stake, after horrible torture, hundreds of thousands of midwives and healers along with other poor women — the greatest sexocide in recorded history?

    Women’s bodies and their medical knowledge were burned on those stakes to be replaced by a male “science” and a male gynecological profession controlled by the state and church. Has history run its course? Or, among the many reasons given today for hysterectomies, does its abuse still conceal, more or less covertly, a yearning for male domination over women’s bodies that reaches this most lethal form of conquest because it expropriates and destroys what makes a body a woman’s body?
    The powerful essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in Gynocide examine the historical,...

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  • Promissory Notes

    Price: $1.95

    Promissory Notes
    From Crisis to Commons
    Midnight Notes Collective and Friends
    “Crisis: What it is, What it is not

    After five hundred years of existence, capitalists are once again announcing to us that their system is in crisis. They are urging everyone to make sacrifices to save its life. We are told that if we do not make these sacrifices, we together face the prospect of a mutual shipwreck. Such threats should be taken seriously. Already in every part of the planet, workers are paying the price of the crisis in retrenchment, mass unemployment, lost pensions, foreclosures, and death.”

    16-page pamphlet, saddlestiched

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  • Assassination Rhapsody

    Price: $9.95

    Assassination Rhapsody
    Derek Pell
    A pataphysical interpretation of the Warren Report on the assassination of JFK, which Pell argues should stand as a hallmark of postmodernist fiction. We can testify that, in the annals of conspiracy theory, no one has ever seen anything like Pell’s document. A poetic expose of curtain rods, bullet design, and grassy knolls, with a journey through Oswald’s secret diary.

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  • Beyond Bookchin

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    Beyond Bookchin
    Preface for a Future Social Ecology
    David Watson

    This book is the most comprehensive discussion to date of Murray Bookchin’s social ecology. But David Watson goes far beyond social ecology to explore new paths of thinking about radical politics. His visionary ecology challenges the mystique of progress and proposes a more holistic notion of reason both primal and modern, skeptical and mythopoetic.

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  • Belle Catastrophe

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    Belle Catastrophe
    Shalom and Carl Watson

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  • Behind the Blip

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    Behind the Blip
    Essays on the Culture of Software
    Matthew Fuller

    A far-reaching and strikingly original collection of essays on the”culture of software” by new-media critic Matthew Fuller. *Behind theBlip* looks at the many ways in which the ostensibly neutral userinterfaces, search engines, “intelligent agents,” and word processorsthat are now part of our everyday life are actively reshaping the waywe look at and interact with the world.”While most institutions are still trying to figure out what to dowith ‘new media,’ some of the best of new-media artists and theoristshave already moved on to the next paradigm: the study of softwareculture. Matthew Fuller’s excellent collection is the first monographin this emerging field. Combining solid understanding of theory andmodern art history with the groundbreaking practical work in softwareculture, Fuller brilliantly analyzes the tools which we all useeveryday to interface with the world and each other: Web browsers,search engines, word processors. What Fuller gives us is not just ausual book of theory but rather a kind of software–a ‘critical helpsystem’...

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