World Food Books

The Castration of Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Feminism
by Carla J. Ferstman and Joseph C. Smith

1996, English
Softcover, 328 pages,‎ 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by New York University Press / New York

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First 1996 edition.

The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

The dialectics of domination and submission are central to Smith and Ferstman's argument. Men and women, they insist, must avoid the temptation to fetishize equality and recognize the roles of domination and submission in the human psyche, or, in Nietzsche's terms, the Will to Power. They argue that the unification of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism leads us to a shocking conclusion--that women and men cannot move beyond the suffering which so haunts the human condition, unless heterosexual men surrender the power that is causing their misery and affirm life by joyfully accepting domination by women. And women, conversely, must reaffirm their power by rejecting Oedipal genderization and embracing a liberating matriarchal consciousness and a matriphallic sexuality.
A work of tremendous insight and extraordinary intellectual energy, The Castration of Oedipus will provoke strong reactions in all readers regardless of ideology.

J.C. Smith is Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy: The Neurotic Foundations of Social Order, also from NYU Press.

Carla J. Ferstman is Associate Counsel at the firm of Bolton and Muldoon.

Very Good copy, some wear, creasing.

File under: Carla J. Ferstman Joseph C. Smith New York University Press / New York Feminism Philosophy Psychoanalysis Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust
by Mieke Bal

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 300 pages, 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Stanford University Press / Palo Alto

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The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a culture saturated with television and by an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. From the viewpoint of our present culture, the author suggests, we can now see how some of the great writers and artists of the past overstepped the boundaries of the media in which they worked. The Mottled Screen studies as an example of this process a great literary work that cannot be confined to language alone, even though it consists exclusively of words: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Maria Gertrudis "Mieke" Bal (b. 1946) is a Dutch cultural theorist, video artist, and Professor Emerita in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Very Good—Fine copy in VG dj.

File under: Mieke Bal Stanford University Press / Palo Alto Feminism Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Art

Death & Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges
by Mieke Bal

1988, English
Hardcover, 324 pages, 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, Death and Dissymmetry radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israelite culture learning to articulate itself in a decisive period of transition.

Counter to standard readings of Judges, Bal's interpretation demonstrates that the book has a political and ideological coherence in which the treatment of women plays a pivotal role. Bal concentrates here not on the assassinations and battles that rage through Judges but on the violence in the domestic lives of individual characters, particularly sexual violence directed at women. Her skillful reading reveals that murder, in this text, relates to gender and reflects a social structure that is inherently contradictory. By foregrounding the stories of women and subjecting them to subtle narrative analysis, she is able to expose a set of preoccupations that are essential to the sense of these stories but are not articulated in them. Bal thereby develops a "countercoherence" in conflict with the apparent emphases of Judges―the politics, wars, and historiography that have been the constant focus of commentators on the book.

Death and Dissymmetry makes an important contribution to the development of a feminist method of interpreting ancient texts, with consequences for religious studies, ancient history, literary theory, and gender studies.

Maria Gertrudis "Mieke" Bal (b. 1946) is a Dutch cultural theorist, video artist, and Professor Emerita in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Very Good copy w/o dust jacket, therefore Good.

File under: Mieke Bal University of Chicago Press / Chicago Feminism Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Crime / Violence Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

WORMS 1

2019, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

This inaugural issue, offers a fresh perspective on the accessibility of literature, writers and style. Here, you will find features with Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines about online writing, an exploration into Kathy Acker’s books and influence on contemporary culture, interviews with young upcoming authors and more.

File under: Chris Kraus Ariana Reines Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Periodicals Art SALE

WORMS 2

2020, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

Worms 2 the ‘Revolting Women’ issue looks at women who are literally disgusting, figuratively revolting. With a focus on writers who operate on the fringes of literature, ‘revolt' in a Worms context is vast-ranging. This issue includes features with Maggie Nelson, Tilly Lawless, Sarah Schulman, Amelia Abraham, Juliana Huxtable, Juliet Jacques, Olivia Sudjic and more.

File under: Maggie Nelson Tilly Lawless Sarah Schulman Amelia Abraham Juliana Huxtable Juliet Jacques Olivia Sudjic Worms / London Art Periodicals Feminism LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

WORMS 3

2021, English
Softcover, 92 pgs, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

Worms 3, the ‘biomythography’ issue, looks at personal myth-making and the stories that shape us.

Featuring Michelle Tea, Moyra Davey, Lynne Tillman, Johanna Hedva, Jenny Hval, Ellen van Neervan, Caroline Calloway, Julie Enszerl and more.

File under: Michelle Tea Moyra Davey Lynne Tillman Johanna Hedva Jenny Hval Ellen van Neervan Caroline Calloway Julie Enszerl Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Periodicals Theory / Essay Art Fiction / Poetry SALE

WORMS 4

2021, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms 4 looks at psychogeography and the Situationists from a non-male perspective. Taking flâneuserie and the creative benefits of a good walk as its starting point, the issue features conversations with Eileen Myles, Alison Bechdel, Lauren Elkin, Tilly Lawless, Mckenzie Wark, Therese Estacion and Carmen Winant. 2021 was a fraught year for walking; the pandemic restricted our right to movement, while the murders of women walking in London led us to ask the question: how can the act of walking the streets spark political conversation?

File under: Eileen Myles Alison Bechdel Lauren Elkin Tilly Lawless Mckenzie Wark Therese Estacion Carmen Winant Worms / London Feminism Periodicals LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Art Theory / Essay

WORMS 5

2022, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

"In this issue, we explore New Narrative alongside writers working today that incorporate some of it’s themes. Our cover star Saidiya Hartman talks with Rhea Dillon about the limits and processes of creating stories from the archive, while Camille Roy and Dodie Bellamy give us insight into New Narrative from their experiences involved in the movement. Savannah Knoop tells us about her life playing the character of J.T Leroy, while Calla Henkel delves into ideas of using other people’s narratives as our own. There’s lots of gleaning, lots of stealing and lots of hard truths coming from the human body. We have poetry and fiction and all of the usual bits, as well as an experimental cut up piece demonstrating the appropriation method that Kathy Acker (via William Burroughs) used in so much of her work. Many more worms to be found in these pages."

File under: Saidiya Hartman Rhea Dillon Camille Roy Dodie Bellamy Savannah Knoop Calla Henkel Kathy Acker William Burroughs Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Art SALE

WORMS 6

2023, English
Softcover, 92 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Published by Worms / London

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Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female/non-binary writer culture.

"The themes of this issue are broad and sprawling. We look at humour, collage, and honesty - finding what’s relatable in the literature we love, and uncovering what it tells us about the present moment. Sheena Patel, our cover star, delves into the internet in all its darkness and hilarity, Elvia Wilk discusses the climate crisis and finding truth in fiction, and Chris Kraus and Ann Rower chat about everything from their influences to what a ‘career’ means as a writer. From Cosey Fanni Tutti to Lola Olufemi to Isabel Waidner, there are many more Worms to be found in these pages."

Featuring: Sheena Patel, Nada Alic, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Elvia Wilk, Ann Rower, Chris Kraus, Ghislaine Leung, Yelena Moskovich, Lola Olufemi, Sam Moore, Isabel Waidner, Cecilia Pavón, Ear Worms X Late Works

Contributors: Haydée Touitou, Nicole Della Costa, Zara Joan Miller, Erin Taylor, Jess Cole, Arcadia Molinas, Phoenix Losavio, Hope Roalfe, Hannah Pezzack, Chris Carter, Clem Macleod, Caitlin Mcloughlin, Isabel Maccarthy, Samantha Rosenwald, Elvira Garcia, Celestine Cooney, Bug Shepherd-Barron, Mary Watt, Delia Rainey

Founder & Editor In Chief: Clem Macleod; Managing Editor: Caitlin Mcloughlin; Art Direction And Design: Caitlin Mcloughlin; Features Editors: Pierce Eldridge, Arcadia Molinas; Contributing Editor: Violet Conroy

File under: Sheena Patel Nada Alic Cosey Fanni Tutti Elvia Wilk Ann Rower Chris Kraus Ghislaine Leung Yelena Moskovich Lola Olufemi Sam Moore Isabel Waidner Cecilia Pavón Haydée Touitou Nicole Della Costa Zara Joan Miller Erin Taylor Jess Cole Arcadia Molinas Phoenix Losavio Hope Roalfe Hannah Pezzack Chris Carter Clem Macleod Caitlin Mcloughlin Isabel Maccarthy Samantha Rosenwald Elvira Garcia Celestine Cooney Bug Shepherd-Barron Mary Watt Delia Rainey Worms / London LGBTQ+ Feminism Theory / Essay Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals SALE

FUGITIVE FEMINISM

2023, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 11.2 x 17.8 cm
Published by Silver Press / London

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This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. This title is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.

Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement?

File under: Akwugo Emejulu Silver Press / London Feminism Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

Heads Together. Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate 1965–1973
Edited by David Jacob Kramer

2023, English
Softcover, 566 pages, 25 x 19 cm
Published by Edition Patrick Frey / Zürich

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The youth uprising, now simply called “The Sixties,” was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history. The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) began as a loose confederation of five papers in 1966, and within a few years swelled to over 500 across the world, reaching millions of readers. They “spread like weed,” said the UPS director, weed-dealer, and eventual founder of High Times, Tom Forcade. The metaphor was apt: the UPS spurred the legalization movement, and weed became its totem.

Weed was so pervasive it became a helpful means for government agencies to crack down on the UPS. Weed came to emblematize activist groups, and added a touch of flair to the mastheads of UPS titles. Weed permeated UPS pages, with gaps in text crammed with weed-inspired “spot illustratios”.

Heads Together collects these drawings, shining a light on lesser-known names in the stoner-art canon, and many who weren’t names at all, as no signature was attached. It also compiles guides for growing weed from the period that were treated like contraband by the CIA. Activist-oriented, psychedelic rolling papers are showcased too.

As pot now fast-tracks toward legalization in the U.S. and beyond, its once incendiary status is brought into odd relief. Pot’s profiteers of the corporate market today do not reflect those who fought for legalization, or the Black and Latino populations strategically criminalized for pot well before hippies were targeted, and long after.

The art in this book speaks to a time when pot was smoked with optimism, as something potentially good for society and people, capable of activating profound transformation in the face of corrupt and powerful forces.

With Oral Histories by: Ishmael Reed, John Sinclair, Marjorie Heins, Mariann Wizard-Vasquez, Abe Peck

File under: Rembert Browne Melania Gazzotti David Jacob Kramer Ishmael Reed John Sinclair Marjorie Heins Mariann Wizard-Vasquez Abe Peck Edition Patrick Frey / Zürich Drugs / Psychedelia Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Graphic Design / Typography Sociology / Politics Counterculture Whole Earth / Crafts Feminism Periodicals Protest / Revolt

Abolish the Family : A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
by Sophie Anne Lewis

2022, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 12.9 x 19.8 cm
Published by Verso / London

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What if we could do better than the family?

We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.

Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. It could be otherwise: in this urgent, incisive polemic, leading feminist critic Sophie Lewis makes the case for family abolition.

Abolish the Family traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian family abolitionist Alexandra Kollontai. Turning her attention to the 1960s, Lewis reminds us of the anti-family politics of radical feminists like Shulamith Firestone and the gay liberationists, a tradition she traces to the queer marxists bringing family abolition to the twenty-first century. This exhilarating essay looks at historic rightwing panic about Black families and the violent imposition of the family on indigenous communities, and insists: only by thinking beyond the family can we begin to imagine what might come after.

File under: Sophie Anne Lewis Verso / London Theory / Essay Feminism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism

SALE2 No.37
MASOCHISM ISSUE

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 176 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

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Issue No.37 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.37, the Masochism issue features erotic writings and artwork throughout by Loic Dubigeon, Guido Crepax, David Bailey, Man Ray, Lucas Samaras, Annie Sprinkle's Bosom Ballet, Hans Bellmer, Paul Outerbridge, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Shinichi Kusamori on the paintings of Seiu Ito "the father of modern kinbaku", Yamaguchi Tsubaki, E. J. Bellocq, René Girard, Noriyuki Eda on Saint Sebastian, Edogawa Ranpo, Serge Nazarieff, Rieko Matsuura, Tetsuo Amano, Freud, Nietzsche, de Sade, interspersed with lots of mysterious vintage erotic imagery, bondage illustration, and catalogue/advertisments/clippings of Richard Cerf, Araki, Eric Stanton, Irving Klaw, Jim, John Willie, Bizarre Comix, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy, tanning with age.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Loic Dubigeon Guido Crepax David Bailey Man Ray Lucas Samaras Annie Sprinkle Seiu Ito Hans Bellmer Paul Outerbridge Richard Cerf Eric Stanton Irving Klaw Jim John Willie E. J. Bellocq Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Shinichi Kusamori Friedrich Nietzsche The Marquis de Sade Sigmund Freud René Girard Yamaguchi Tsubaki Noriyuki Eda Edogawa Ranpo Serge Nazarieff Rieko Matsuura Tetsuo Amano Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Feminism Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture

Conceptual Beauty: Perspectives on Australian Contemporary Art
by Jacqueline Millner

2010, English
Softcover, 207 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Western Sydney University / WA

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Conceptual Beauty is a collection of essays that are in some way representative of a particular moment in contemporary Australian art: a moment marked by the enduring belief in the social power of art but also by cognizance of the largely illusory nature of individual agency; a moment energised by the lively debates of post-structuralist theory and the politics of representation (in particular feminist perspectives), but one also marked by a sense of loss, namely the loss of the aesthetic dimension of art in the wake of conceptualism. Many of the essays are about works that seek to connect art with wider social and political questions in full awareness of its limitations; works that grapple with the apparent dichotomy between critical idea and beautiful object; works that are drawn equally to conceptual approaches that engage in meta-analysis of language and institutions - including the figure of the artist him/herself - and to the well-crafted piece, the affectively joyful. Conceptual Beauty includes essays on the work of Robyn Backen, Barbara Campbell, Maria Cruz, Anne Ferran, Adam Geczy, Bronia Iwanczak, Vanila Netto, David Noonan, Mike Parr, Sue Pedley, Patricia Piccinini, Ben Quilty, Julie Rrap, Robyn Stacey, Monika Tichacek and Ruth Watson amongst others.

As New copy with some light tanning.

File under: Jacqueline Millner Western Sydney University / WA Conceptual Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Photography Theory / Essay Feminism Group Shows / Collections Art SALE

Tales of Love
by Julia Kristeva

1987, English
Softcover, 414 pages, 22.6 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Columbia University Press / New York

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First edition from 1989 of Kristeva's Tales of Love, wherein her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate."

Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polimicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Romantic and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self... the analytical work is punctuated throughout by the personal, so that intelligently moving thoughts on motherhood aptly intervene. Kristeva makes a very strong case for the claim that the goal of analysis is not a truth in, but a dynamic rebirth of, the analysand via language.—Choice

From the Back Cover :
In 'Tales of Love' Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the basic emotions that affect the human psyche. The processes are similar to those followed in 'Powers of Horror'. She begins with a statement from personal experience and follows it with a critical examination of the psychoanalytic position with respect to the matter at hand.

Julia Kristeva (b. 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité.
Good copy, cover wear, marginalia in erasable light lead pencil.

Good copy, wear to cover edges, erasable light lead pencil marginalia.

File under: Julia Kristeva Columbia University Press / New York Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Psychoanalysis Feminism Art

Male Fantasies Vol. 1+2: Women, Floods, Bodies, History / Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
by Klaus Theweleit

1987 / 1993, English
Softcover, 518 + 507 pages, 22.4 x 15.3 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

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Polity 1993 editions of Theweleit's classic two-volume Male Fantasies as complete set translated from the original German. Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History; Volume 2: Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror.

Klaus Theweleit's two-volume work Mannerphantasien, published in the late 1970s, has become a contemporary German classic. Male Fantasies dives into the sexual, psychological and sociopolitical foundation of National Socialism as it was manifested in the Weimar Republic, arguing that fascism is not a political or economic phenomenon, but a method to manufacture a specific reality. Unlike any study before it, Male Fantasies centers upon the fantasies that preoccupied a group of men who played a crucial role in the rise of Nazism — The German Freikorps, the precursors of the SA and SS. Theweleit draws upon the novels, letters, and autobiographies of these proto-fascists and their contemporaries. There he discovered how the repudiation of one's own body—and of femininity—became a psychic compulsion associating masculinity with hardness, self-denial, and destruction.

The first volume of Male Fantasies deals primarily with the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist warrior—visions reflecting hatred and fear, culminating in a series of liquid metaphors—red tide, lava, mud—that threaten to engulf the male ego. In Volume 2, Theweleit shifts his attention to the male self-image. We are shown how the body becomes a mechanism for eluding the dreaded liquid and the "feminine" emotions associated with it. Armored, organized by mental and physical procedures like the military drill, the male body is transformed into "a man of steel'.' As Theweleit shows, only in war does this body find redemption from constraint.

Theweleit writes in a non orthodox, highly personal and associative style, heavily illustrating his works with incredible cartoons, advertisements, engravings, and posters of the era.

"Theweleit's book asks some key questions for those of us interested in Men's Studies. [It] takes us inside the psyches of men who, in Theweleit's analysis, are not destroying and murdering out of sublimation, but because they want to." — Men's Studies Review

"Klaus Theweleit's book, like the first volume of his massive study, usefully employs psychoanalytic insights in conjunction with the social-historical analyses of Elias, Mary Douglas, Foucault, and others to investigate the formation and nature of the fascist psyche in 1920s Germany, exploring here the male self-image, envisaged as armored against the threat and intrusion of the feminine." — Contemporary Sociology

Klaus Theweleit (b. 1942) is a German sociologist and writer. In 1977–78 he published the two volumes of Male Fantasies, now recognized as a pre-eminent work on the body, war and fascism. In 1990 he published Orpheus (und) Eurydike, the first volume of The Book of Kings, an examination of Western art through male artists’ relationship with women.

Very Good copies both.

File under: Klaus Theweleit University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota Theory / Essay LGBTQ+ Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Psychoanalysis Sociology / Politics Crime / Violence

The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980
Rosemary Mayer, Bernadette Mayer

2022, English
Softcover, 373 pages, 14 x 21 cm
Published by Swiss Institute / New York Walther König / Köln

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Two sisters, an artist and a poet, describe the contours of their lives among New York's artistic avant-garde through an intimate collection of letters.

This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York's artistic avant-garde, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures, watercolors, books and “temporary monuments” from weather balloons and snow, while Bernadette Mayer was working on some of her best-known publications, including the book-length poem Midwinter Day and the poetry collection The Golden Book of words. Spanning the worlds of Conceptual art, Postminimalism, feminism, the New York School, Language poetry and more, these letters elucidate the bonds of sisterhood through intimate exchanges about art, relationships and everyday life.

Edited by Gillian Sneed, Marie Warsh
Preface by Eva Birkenstock, Robert Leckie, Laura McLean-Ferris, Stephanie Weber
Text by Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Gillian Sneed

File under: Rosemary Mayer Rosemary Mayer Bernadette Mayer Gillian Sneed Marie Warsh Eva Birkenstock Robert Leckie Laura McLean-Ferris Stephanie Weber Swiss Institute / New York Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Art Painting Feminism Conceptual Art

What The Fire Sees : A Divided Reader

2020, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 13.9 x 21.6 cm
Published by Divided Publishing / London

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A collection of anti-capitalist poetry, philosophy, cultural analysis, legal studies, manifesto and critique spanning 1996 to the present by Alenka Zupančič, Alexander Kluge, Amy Ireland, Anne Boyer, Aurelia Guo, Bini Adamczak, Carolyn Lazard, Chi Chi Shi, Denis Ekpo, Feminist Judgments Project, Gili Tal, Houria Bouteldja, Huw Lemmey, Keziah Craven, Marina Vishmidt, Nat Raha, Sarah Lamble, Teflon and Vanessa Place.

Divided we fall, but where do we land? This collection explores some of the grounds on which thinking and writing can begin again. – Sadie Plant

Many of the writings in this book remind me of times when I seek something to save myself from destruction. These are texts for the thing that comes before protecting yourself from capture or dampening any pain. – Hamishi Farah

Divided Publishing show themselves willing to question the intellectual status quo and the ways in which it is maintained. Let this reader create much chaos. – Pete Ayrton (founder, Serpent’s Tail)

File under: Alenka Zupančič Alexander Kluge Amy Ireland Anne Boyer Aurelia Guo Bini Adamczak Carolyn Lazard Chi Chi Shi Denis Ekpo Feminist Judgments Project Gili Tal Houria Bouteldja Huw Lemmey Keziah Craven Marina Vishmidt Nat Raha Sarah Lamble Teflon Vanessa Place Divided Publishing / London Art Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Feminism

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason : Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

1999, English
Softcover, 464 pages, 14.8 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Harvard University Press / Cambridge

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Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave.

"We cannot merely continue to act out the part of Caliban," Spivak writes; and her book is an attempt to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason tracks the figure of the "native informant" through various cultural practices-philosophy, history, literature-to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid. The book addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals, as they unite and divide. It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh. Throughout, the notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on.

A major critical work, Spivak's book redefines and repositions the postcolonial critic, leading her through transnational cultural studies into considerations of globality.

Very Good copy.

File under: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Harvard University Press / Cambridge Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Sociology / Politics Feminism Philosophy

All Said and Done
by Simone de Beauvoir

1990, English
Softcover, 512 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Penguin Books / London

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1990 re-print of Simone de Beauvoir's 1977 autobiography, All Said and Done.

"All Said and Done... offers us ten years (1962-72) not so much of experience realised (although this is exceptionally packed with incident) as an imaginative and intellectual transmutation of such experience. It is a deeply serious, wholly absorbing, and marvellously stimulating testimony, which gives a complete feeling of maturity and confidence in the autobiographer who comes through with tremendous honesty and admirable lucidity and precision... it inspires one to live, to look again, to learn more, to know more deeply the people and social systems which constitute our world. It throws open the windows, and simultaneously enables one better to examine the room behind one."—Kay Dick in the Spectator.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908—1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.

Very Good copy.

File under: Simone de Beauvoir Penguin Books / London Feminism Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

The Coming of Age
by Simone de Beauvoir

1996, English
Softcover, 585 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Out of print title / as new
Published by W W Norton & Co / New York

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1996 edition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age, published by W W Norton & Company, New York.

As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is "a brilliant achievement" (Marc Slonin, New York Times).

What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead castigate and avoid? Most importantly, how is our treatment of this generation a reflection of our society's values and priorities?

In The Coming of Age, Simone de Beauvoir seeks greater understanding of our perception of elders. With bravery, tenacity, and forceful honesty, she guides us on a study spanning a thousand years and a variety of different nations and cultures to provide a clear and alarming picture of "Society's secret shame"--the separation and distance from our communities that the old must suffer and endure.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908—1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.

Fine—As New copy.

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REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
by Diane di Prima

2021, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 20 x 12.5 cm
Published by Silver Press / London

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With a Foreword by Francesca Wade and an Introduction by Sophie Lewis

Diane di Prima began writing her ‘Letters’ in 1968, conjuring a potent blend of utopian visions, ecological urgency and spiritual insight. By turns a manifesto for breaking free, a manual for street protest and a feminist broadside, these poems are as relevant to the convulsions and crises of today as they were fifty years ago.

During the last years of her life, di Prima worked on the final iteration of her enduring project. This volume brings together fifteen new poems with all the previously published Letters in an expanded fiftieth anniversary edition.

"Di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation."—Chris Kraus

"Explosive and nourishing . . . Revolutionary Letters is a time machine towards a better future."—Ken Chen

"The real sexual liberator of the Sixties . . . A multi-hyphenate artist who writes what she wants and is taken seriously for it, and whose creativity is driven by a moral energy of the political and spiritual."—New Yorker

File under: Diane Di Prima Francesca Wade Sophie Lewis Silver Press / London Feminism Theory / Essay Ecology Sociology / Politics

YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU
by Audre Lorde

2017, English
Softcover, 230 pages, 20 x 12.5 cm
Published by Silver Press / London

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With a Preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an Introduction by Sara Ahmed.

Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood, confront injustice and bring about change in the world remains as transformative today as it was then, and no less urgent.

Your Silence Will Not Protect You brings Lorde's poetry and prose together for the first time.

File under: Audre Lorde Reni Eddo-Lodge Sara Ahmed Silver Press / London Feminism Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry LGBTQ+