Avant Gardening
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This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the “Supermarket to the World” ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others.
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Cometbus #50. 96 pages, $2
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The 25-year anniversary issue; features a report on New York City used bookstores, plus 8 interviews and 7 new stories.Veils
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VeilsCultural Memory in the PresentHelene Cixous & Jacques Derrida
Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely “autobiographical” texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. “Savoir,” by Hélène Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida’s “A Silkworm of One’s Own” complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs—including his varied responses to “Savoir.” The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body.
Veils suspends sexual difference between two homonyms: la voile (sail) and le voile (veil). A whole history of sexual difference is enveloped, sometimes dissimulated here—in the folds of sails and veils and in the turns,...
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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,...
