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  • Got Pus?

    Price: $3.00

    Got Pus?
    Bovine Growth Hormone & the New World Order
    Mitchel Cohen

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  • The Rules of Art

    Price: $24.95

    Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world’s leading social theorists. Drawing upon the history of literature and art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Bourdieu develops an original theory of art conceived as an autonomous value. He argues powerfully against those who refuse to acknowledge the interconnection between art and the structures of social relations within which it is produced and received. As Bourdieu shows, art’s new autonomy is one such structure, which complicates but does not eliminate the interconnection.

    The literary universe as we know it today took shape in the nineteenth century as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate what ought to be written or decree the canons of good taste. Recognition and consecration were produced in and through the struggle in which writers,...

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  • Showdown in Seattle

    Price: $30.00

    Showdown in Seattle
    Five Days That Shook the WTO
    Big Noise Films and Whispered Media

    VHS Format Video
    An incredible collaboration between the main constituents that made up the Independent Media Center in Seattle—Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger, Big Noise Films, our very own Whispered Media, and more. Two and a half hours of footage and analysis of the now legendary Seattle WTO protests. From the National Lawyers Guild to the Longshoreman’s rally, Vandana Shiva to Jim Hightower, chemical weapons and rubber bullets, direct action blockades and rioting. Its all here. A crucial piece of history, testimony, eye-witness reportage, analysis, and alternative media in the making. For anyone who was there, and everyone who wasn’t.

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  • The Accident of Art

    Price: $14.95

    “There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the “optically correct” is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven’t learned from it. Instead, they’ve masked this failure with commercial success. This “accident” is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.”
    — Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art

    Urbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael. In The Accident of Art, his third extended conversation with Sylvère Lotringer, Virilio addresses the situation of art within technological society for the first time. This book completes a collaborative trilogy the two began in 1982 with Pure War and continued with Crepuscular Dawn, their 2002 work on architecture and biotechnology.

    In The Accident of Art, Virilio and Lotringer argue that a direct relation exists between war trauma and art....

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  • Alternative Americas

    Price: $19.95

    Alternative Americas
    An Informal History by the “Grandmother of the Counter-Culture”
    Mildred J. Loomis

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  • The Petroleum Commons

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    The Petroleum Commons
    George Caffentzis

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