Auroras of the Zapatistas
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Auroras of the Zapatistas
Local & Global Struggles of the Fourth World War
Midnight Notes CollectiveThis anthology edited by the Midnight Notes Collective does some of the work of defining the elements of the new political chemistry of the planetary working class… What the Zapatista movement means for the U.S. anti-globalization movement is still an open question more than six years since the dawning.
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The importance of the Zapatistas for Midnight Notes lies in their ability to open up a space (at great cost to themselves) wherein they are helping all of us to shape a halt to globalizing capital… Isn’t it strange that a peasant army from the poorest state of Mexico should play such an important role in the formation of a movement that can stop the headlong progress of globalizing capital? No, for we must remember that this is not the first time a “peasant revolution” (the “sickle”) has reached into the most advanced points of capitalist production (the “hammer”)....Black Fez Manifesto, Etc.
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Black Fez Manifesto, Etc.
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Hakim Bey
New poetic rants and prose poems from the pseudonymous author of TAZ and Millennium, among many other influential, incendiary texts.
“BLACK FEZ is the emblem of our intransigent disgust with the lukewarm necromantic vacuum of dephlogisticated corpse breath that passes nowadays for Empire and organic death.”Ayahuasca and Shamanism
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Ayahuasca and Shamanism
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Michael Taussig interviewed by Peter Lamborn WilsonArcane of Reproduction, The
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The Arcane of Reproduction
Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital
Leopoldina FortunatiOne of Italy’s leading feminist thinkers critiques the traditional Marxist categories or production and reproduction, repositioning the central role of women’s labor and women’s bodies that Marx himself could not see. Leopoldina Fortunati profoundly illuminates the nature of the nuclear family, housework, the sexual division of labor and prostitution under capitalism, and underlines new arenas for feminist struggle arising from the unpaid labor of those (primarily women) who “produce and reproduce” (sexually, materially, psychologically, spiritually) the “productive” wages worker.
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Blood & Volts
Edison, Tesla and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Th. MetzgerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, General Electric (using Thomas Edison’s direct current) and Westinghouse (employing Nikola Tesla’s groundbreaking alternating current) were locked in combat to determine which would dominate the technological fate of the nation. Electricity was thought to be a highly ambiguous force: both godlike creative power and demonic destroyer of life. Th. Metzger argues that for scientists of the day, as well as the general populace, the electric chair was both harbinger and early pinnacle of modernity, the high altar of the rising cult of progress. In the popular imagination, Tesla and Edison were seen as nearly superhuman beings, and their struggle was not only for wealth and power, but to reshape the face of America. In Blood and Volts, Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling and cultural critique to present a clear and compelling story of America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation....
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Cassette Mythos
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Edited by Robin James
Essays, stories, and manifestoes from the real musical underground. The cassette is an egalitarian communication tool that has given many the power to produce and distribute their own music and aural communiques from the fringe. Intimate and impenetrable, always in their own style and for their own purposes, free of the mediated nets of cash, and commerce. Works by Chadbourne, Gunderloy, Cutler, Margolis and others.
