Pirate Utopias
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From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Moslem corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors – “Renegadoes”? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a praxis of social resistance? This new edition includes the new chapter on “Moorish Pirates in Old New York.”
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Peter Lamborn Wilson, Pirate UtopiasThe Terror and the Time
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The Terror and The Time
Notes on Repressive Violence in GuyanaThe Terror is British colonialism and cold war imperialism.
The Time is 1953.
Part One of The Terror and the Time is the story of the Guyanese people’s fight for independence and self-determination. The film-makers found it necessary to investigate the historical background of neo-colonial conditions in Guyana. Understanding the complexity and duration of colonialist domination is a crucial step towards understanding the present situation. The heavy-handed repressions — military invasion, years under a state of emergency — has long been present and will finally be opened up for the scrutiny of the rest of the world.
But this film also documents the more insidious forms of everyday economic and cultural repression used throughout colonialism’s long history — the impoverishment of the working people, feudal labor conditions and social relationships, and the government’s stranglehold on the press and the media....
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GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS
by Peter Lamborn Wilson76 pages, 6×9 inch trim
“Ostensibly a volume of poems, this dense glossary packs the deep
gratification of his best prose. But at its best, Gothick
Institutions is neither poetry nor prose while obviously both—because
buried in these pages we find wrinkled love letters from our
spiritual ancestors reincarnated as the crinkly cartography of our
future utopia.”
—Anu Bonobo, Fifth Estate, Winter 2006from the book:
Remote Viewing
Imagine an alternate dimension where
dervishes are roaming around America
sects of Swedenborgian hobos etc.
You’re there camping in the graveyard
long black hair in tangles, ghostwhite face.Peter Lamborn Wilson founded The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on
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Pacifica Radio; taught many years at the Jack Kerouac School of
Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University; and is a long-time member
of the Autonomedia publishing collective in Brooklyn,...Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Vol. 3
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935–1938
Translated by Edmund Jephcott, Howard Eiland, and Others
Edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings
Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie–such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin’s privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin’s most famous essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics, and German Men and Women, a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883 in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of German tradition from the debasement of fascism....
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These 26 essays reveal the intellectual girders the British Marxist historian used in four decades of publishing social and political analyses in support of common, working people. He shows a sometimes puckish appetite for shattering facile definitions with deadly buckshot, as in his 1952 “The Machine-Breakers,” in which he takes aim at the image of the Luddites as visionless machine haters, instead calling their actions “collective bargaining by riot.” In “Birth of a Holiday,” he cites May Day as an “entirely unofficial movement of poor men and women” celebrated in 107 countries; in an interesting aside he notes that the first May Day in Germany was commemorated by a plaque with Karl Marx on one side and the Statue of Liberty on the other, thereby uniting the socialist labor movement with democracy. With the same combination of insight and trenchant factual digression, Hobsbawm (Age of Extremes 1914-1991) faces the cosmic questions (“Revolution and Sex,” “Peasants and Politics”) as well as powerful individuals such as the mafioso Salvatore Giuliano and Roy Cohn,...
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Eight new long stories — the first collection of new Cometbus stories in more than five years!
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Includes a tour of the United Nations sissions, a walk across the Midwest, a library love story, plus coffee, book and restaurant reviews
