Promissory Notes
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Promissory Notes
From Crisis to Commons
Midnight Notes Collective and Friends
“Crisis: What it is, What it is notAfter 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
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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.Beyond Bookchin
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Beyond Bookchin
Preface for a Future Social Ecology
David WatsonThis 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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Shalom and Carl WatsonBehind the Blip
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Behind the Blip
Essays on the Culture of Software
Matthew FullerA 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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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”)....
