Belle Catastrophe
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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”)....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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