Uncommon People
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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 reviewsThe System Wall Map
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Having already published collections of critical essays on fiction, poetry, performance, politics and visual art, Richard Kostelanetz for the first time selects here from his writings on film and video.
As in earlier volumes, these essays emphasize the primacy of possibilities intrinsic in each medium. Always representing radical alternatives, he writes with uncommon perception not only about familiar issues but about films customarily forgotten, and always with his customary clarity. Also included are prefaces and transcripts from his own films and videos.
He writes: “Another implicit assumption behind my activity is acknowledging the importance of books in collecting together initially scattered opinions, for I have long contended that the critic who fails to risk publishing books is just a reviewing journalist, or, worse, an opportunist.” Celebrating four decades of book-publishing, he remains a prolific force and a unique independent voice.
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians,...
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A pungent genealogy of prostitution, linking the ancient Greek hetairai — holy courtesans — to sex-trade workers in our own post-modern Babylon. “Cuntceptual” interviews, essays, photos, graphics, and introductions to magical whores, hustlers, sex artists, porno-politicos, and the orgiastic issues of sexual and social insurrection.
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