World Food Books

Future Primitive Revisited
by John Zerzan

1994 / 2012, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Feral House / Los Angeles

$35.00 - In stock -

As our society is stricken with repeated technological disasters, and the apocalyptic problems that go with them, the "neo-primitivist" essays of John Zerzan seem more relevant than ever.

"Future Primitive," (1994) the core innovative essay of Future Primitive Revisited, has been out of print for years. This new edition is updated with never-before-printed essays that speak to a youthful political movement and influential writers such as Derrick Jensen and Paul Theroux.

An active participant in the contemporary anarchist resurgence, John Zerzan has been an invited speaker at both radical and conventional events on several continents. His weekly Anarchy Radio broadcast streams live on KWVA radio.

"Anyone who travels with his eyes open understands the sense of much of what you have written, and the longer I live the greater my contempt for the opportunists who run governments and dictate our lives with technology."—Paul Theroux

"Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious."—Derrick Jensen

"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift for us all."—Enrico Manicardi, author of Liberi dalla Civiltá (Free from Civilization)

"Of course we should go primitive. This doesn't mean abandoning material needs, tools, or skills, but ending our obsession with such concerns. Declaring for community, our true origin: personal autonomy, trust, mutual support in pursuit of all the joys and troubles of life. Society was a trap—massive, demanding, impersonal and debilitating from day one. So hurry back to the community, friends, and welcome all the consequences of such an orientation. The reasons for fear and despair will only multiply if we remain in this brutal and dangerous state of civilization."—Blok 45 publishing, Belgrade

File under: John Zerzan Feral House / Los Angeles Anarchism Ecology Ecology / Earth Whole Earth / Crafts Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Counterculture Theory / Essay

The Unabomber Manifesto : Industrial Society and its Future
By Ted Kaczynski as FC (Freedom Club)

2008, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 14 x 22 cm
Published by Wingspan Classics / California

$28.00 - Out of stock

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In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and executives to express his disdain for modern society, and to work on his magnum opus, Industrial Society and Its Future, a 1995 anti-technology essay, forever known to the world as the Unabomber Manifesto. The manifesto contends that the Industrial Revolution began a harmful process of natural destruction brought about by technology, while forcing humans to adapt to machinery, creating a sociopolitical order that suppresses human freedom and potential. The 35,000-word manifesto formed the ideological foundation of Kaczynski's 1978–1995 mail bomb campaign, designed to protect wilderness by hastening the collapse of industrial society. Responsible for three deaths and more than twenty casualties over two decades, he was finally identified and apprehended when his brother recognized his writing style while reading the "Unabomber Manifesto." The piece, written under the pseudonym FC (Freedom Club) was published in the New York Times after his promise to cease the bombing if a major publication printed it in its entirety. Kaczynski believed that his violence, as direct action when words were insufficient, would draw others to pay attention to his critique. He wanted his ideas to be taken seriously.

The manifesto argues against accepting individual technological advancements as purely positive without accounting for their overall effect, which includes the fall of small-scale living, and the rise of uninhabitable cities. While originally regarded as a thoughtful critique of modern society, with roots in the work of academic authors such as French philosopher Jacques Ellul, British zoologist Desmond Morris, and American psychologist Martin Seligman, Kaczynski's 1996 trial polarized public opinion around the essay, as his court-appointed lawyers tried to justify their insanity defense around characterizing the manifesto as the work of a madman, and the prosecution lawyers rested their case on it being produced by a lucid mind.

While Kaczynski's actions were generally condemned, his manifesto expressed ideas that continue to be generally shared among the American public. A 2017 Rolling Stone article stated that Kaczynski was an early adopter of the concept that: "We give up a piece of ourselves whenever we adjust to conform to society's standards. That, and we're too plugged in. We're letting technology take over our lives, willingly."

File under: Dr. Theodore Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski FC (Freedom Club) Wingspan Classics / California Ecology Counterculture Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt Crime / Violence

Underground : The Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s
Collected Issues of the A.L.F. Supporters Group Magazine

2011, English
Softcover, 520 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by WarCry / US

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Underground: The Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s compiles the rare first 15 issues of Underground, the magazine of the North American Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group. With over 500 pages of A.L.F. news and action reports, this landmark compilation offers the most comprehensive look available on the Animal Liberation Front at the end of the 20th century.

For most of the 1990s, Underground proudly documented the work of the Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine group that carries out illegal raids to rescue animals and sabotage the businesses that profit from their exploitation. A.L.F. activity peaked in the 1990s, and for that decade Underground was the #1 source for A.L.F. news.

Compiled from rare copies of the legendary magazine, this massive collection serves as a powerful animal rights movement history lesson and in-depth look at the Animal Liberation Front.

Underground: The Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s is a vital read for anyone interested in the animal rights movement, and the misunderstood work of those who risk their freedom to save animals.

Included in Underground:
A.L.F. interviews A.L.F. action reports
Essays by Rod Coronado, Jonathan Paul, and other convicted A.L.F. members Anonymous "how it was done" accounts of landmark A.L.F. raids
Detailed info on A.L.F. rescue and sabotage tactics Over 500 pages of Animal Liberation Front history

File under: Rod Coronado WarCry / US Ecology Animal Rights / Veganism Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Periodicals Counterculture Crime / Violence

The Militant Vegan: Complete Collection 1993-1995

2019, English
Softcover, 108 pages, 21.6 x 27.9 cm
Published by WarCry / US

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Together in one professionally-bound book, for the first time.

The Militant Vegan was a low-production-value, limited-circulation, photocopied publication that ran from 1993 to 1995, and never enjoyed a wide audience. This is the complete collection of the animal liberation zine covering direct action, animal rights activism, and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).

To understand The Militant Vegan is to understand the historical context from which it arose: By 1993, the Animal Liberation Front had carried out its most strategic campaign to date, targeting weak points in the fur industry in a multi-state liberation and arson spree called Operation Bite Back. The media was all but silent. There was no internet, so activists outside the small media markets where these raids happened were unaware this campaign was underway, and many of the raids weren’t reported by the media at all. The Animal Liberation Front (again, pre-internet) had little-to-no platforms to which they could disseminate their communiques, rally the movement to join them in taking action, or let the world know of their victories.

It was from this void The Militant Vegan emerged. To quote issue #1, “The Militant Vegan is being released because there has been a media blackout on direct action on behalf of enslaved animals.” Before the internet, animal liberation news could only be spread through photocopied documents like The Militant Vegan, distributed person-to-person, and seen by few. While dominated by re-purposed material (such as ALF primers and newspaper clippings), there is also notable content, ALF history, and other direct-action themed rarities contained in these pages. Some of it never to be found elsewhere. The Militant Vegan published some of the first publicized fur farm addresses - several of which would go on to be raided by activists. A communiqué for the Malecky Mink Farm arson (also part of Operation Bite Back) is a rare piece of ALF history. And even the grainy newspaper article reprints can’t be downplayed, in a time when to not live in an area where an ALF action had occurred was to never know it happened at all - were it not for The Militant Vegan.

In the mid-1990s, reading The Militant Vegan was like a window to a secret history you watched unfold in its pages.

File under: Peter Young WarCry / US Anarchism Periodicals Ecology Counterculture Animal Rights / Veganism Protest / Revolt Crime / Violence

The Culture of the Case : Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art
By Frederic J. Schwartz

2023, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25 x 16.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed.

In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a “case” provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to Lustmord, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with methods used by these figures to exploit fundamental changes taking place across the mass media of their time.

As Schwartz shows, the case was a common denominator that connected seemingly disparate works. George Grosz and Rudolf Schlichter drew on it for their violent visual art, as did architect Adolf Loos when he equated ornament with crime. Expressionists, meanwhile, approached the question of whether the so-called “mad” shared a right of public expression with those deemed sane, and examined medical and legal approaches to what society labeled as insanity. The case also took on a personal dimension when artists found themselves confronted with, or chose to engage with, the legal system. German courts prosecuted John Heartfield and others for their provocative works, while Bertolt Brecht created publicity for himself by suing the firm to whom he sold the film rights to The Threepenny Opera. Provocative and insightful, The Culture of the Case offers a privileged view of the spaces of representation in which images—in some instances, as cases—functioned at a key moment of modernity.

Frederic J. Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at University College London. His books include The Werkbund- Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War and Blind Spots- Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany.

File under: George Grosz Rudolf Schlichter Adolf Loos John Heartfield Oskar Kokoschka Alfred Kubin Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Heinrich Maria Davringhausen Otto Dix Frederic J. Schwartz Bertolt Brecht Ernst Jünger The MIT Press / Massachusetts Painting Drawing Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Theory / Essay Surrealism Architecture / Interior Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Protest / Revolt Sociology / Politics

Art of The Holocaust

1982, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 30.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Pan / Sydney

$45.00 - Out of stock

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First 1982 softcover edition of Art of The Holocaust, edited by Janet Blatter and Sybil Milton. A powerful collection of over 350 works of art created in ghettos, concentration camps, and in hiding by victims of the Nazis. Jewish, Communist and "degenerate", exiled, enemy-of-the-State avant-garde German artists, whose art was an "insult to German feeling", present here an arresting collective portrait of horror and the indomitable struggle to survive. Paintings and drawings reproduced throughout in colour and b/w with extensive biographies on the artists. Preface by Irving Howe.

Good copy.

File under: Irving Howe Pan / Sydney Crime / Violence Surrealism Painting Drawing Protest / Revolt Sociology / Politics Art Out-of-print / Rare

TOKYO 1970 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS 9
Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosie, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe

2013, Japanese
Softcover, 212 pages, 28.2 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Amana / Japan

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First edition of this wonderful collection of Japanese photographers that captured 1970s Tokyo, now out-of-print. In the world of fine art photography, post-war Japanese photography is continuing to gather attention. Many Japanese photographers were active specifically during the large cultural and political development of the 70s as the country experienced rapid economic growth. At the time, new styles of expression with a strong focus on the individual viewpoint were beginning to develop, which were distinct to the social documentary photography prior to that. This also coincided with the development of photography within the fashion and advertising field, reflecting a period where the works of many unique photographers and styles began to grow. A careful selection of 160 bodies of works by 9 prominent photographers of the time, each individually portraying the excitement and rapid growth which symbolised the era. Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosie, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe.

Very Good copy with good dust jacket.

File under: Taiji Arita Eikoh Hosie Daido Moriyama Masatoshi Naito Hajime Sawatari Issei Suda Yoshihiro Tatsuki Shuji Terayama Katsumi Watanabe Amana / Japan Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Art Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Performance / Dance / Theater

Phenomenology and Marxism
Edited By Bernhard Waldenfels, Jan M. Broekman, Ante Pažanin

1983, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 320 pages,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Routledge / London

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First 1984 hardcover English edition of this collection of essays documenting a dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism, with the contributors representing a cross-section from the two traditions. The theoretical and historical presuppositions of the phenomenology inaugurated by Husserl are very different from those of the much older Marxist tradition, yet, as these essays show, there are definite points of contact, communication and exchange between the two traditions.

Very Good copy in Good dust jacket.

File under: Bernhard Waldenfels Jan M. Broekman Ante Pažanin Edmund Husserl Karl Marx Routledge / London Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Philosophy Protest / Revolt

Patterns of Anarchy: A Collection of Writings on the Anarchist Tradition
Edited by Leonard I. Krimerman and Lewis Perry

1966, English
Softcover, 570 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Doubleday Anchor / US

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First English edition of this important 1966 anthology of anarchist texts, edited by Leonard I. Krimerman and Lewis Perry. It is the aim of this book to clarify and analyze the various traditions that together make up the corpus of anarchist thought and inform anarchists' recommendations for the renovation of society. Grouping writings by past and present libertarians, both European and American, around topics of central interest to all of them, the editors have illuminated both the variety and the underlying unity of anarchist traditions. One section brings together criticisms that anarchists of different schools have made of socialism, defining the distance that separates anarchism from a movement with which it has often been mistakenly confounded. Another portion of the book is devoted to critiques and proposals relating to education, a field of great concern to libertarian thinkers and one inwhich their ideas have utomost relevance today. And, to facilitate a just appraisal, the editors have included a number of cogent attacks upon various anarchist positions.

Good copy with general wear and age.

File under: Doubleday Anchor / US Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Anarchism Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Philosophy

Fascism, Aesthetics, and Culture
Edited by Richard J. Golsan

1992, English
Softcover, ‎302 pages, 15.24 x 22.86 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University Press of New England / New Hampshire

$30.00 - Out of stock

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First 1992 edition of Fascism, Aesthetics, and Culture, edited by Richard J. Golsan.

"A timely and necessary evaluation of fascism and its ongoing impact on culture and the arts."

"Recent scandals and controversies in the academic world and in politics both in the U.S. and in Europe have made fascism an important contemporary topic. Thirteen essays offer a wide-ranging multidisciplinary reassessment of the impact of fascist ideology on the novels, poetry, criticism, and polemics of such major European and American writers as Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Marinetti, Céline, Montherlant, de Man, and Heidegger; on such artistic movements as 'Triunfalismo in Spain, Futurism in Italy, and Primitivism in Germany; and on film aesthetics and such cultural events as the 1932 Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution in Rome. The traditional assumption that fascism is an aberration antithetical to culture is no longer tenable. As a whole this volume raises fundamental questions about the relation of modernism and fascism and the attraction of fascism to a broad spectrum of intellectuals, artists, and writers.

Richard J. Golsan is Associate Professor of French at Texas A &M University. He is currently working on a book about Rene Girard's theory of myth and co-editing an issue of L'Esprit Createur on the literature and film of the Nail Occupation period in France.

Very Good copy.

File under: Richard J. Golsan Wyndham Lewis Louis-Ferdinand Celine Paul de Man Ezra Pound F. T. Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Martin Heidegger Henry de Montherlant University Press of New England / New Hampshire Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Protest / Revolt Art Theory / Essay

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

$119.00 - Out of stock

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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

Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation
by Michael Ryan

1984, English
Softcover, 232 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press / Baltimore

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First published in 1982. Aside from Jacques Derrida's own references to the "possible articulation" between deconstruction and Marxism, the relationship between the two has remained largely unexplored. In Marxism and Deconstruction, Michael Ryan examines that multifaceted relationship but not through a mere comparison of two distinct and inviolable entities. Instead, he looks at both with an eye to identifying their common elements and reweaving them into a new theory of political practice. To accomplish his task, Ryan undertakes a detailed comparison of deconstruction and Marxism, relating deconstruction to the dialectical tradition in philosophy and demonstrating how deconstruction can be used in the critique of ideology. He is a forceful critic of both the politics of deconstruction and the metaphysical aspect of Marxism (as seen from a deconstructionist perspective). Besides offering the first book-length study of Derrida in this context, Ryan makes the first methodic attempt by an American scholar to apply deconstruction to domains beyond literature. He proposes a deconstructive Marxism, one lacking the metaphysical underpinnings of conservative "scientific" Marxist theory and employing deconstructive analysis both for Marxist political criticism and to further current anti-metaphysical developments within Marxism. Marxism and Deconstruction is an innovative and controversial contribution to the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and political science.

"A powerful riposte, both to Marxists who revile deconstructionism for its supposed liberal-bourgeois quietism, and to those among the current deconstructors who seem to invite that charge."—Christopher Norris, Times Literary Supplement.

G—VG copy.

File under: Karl Marx Jacques Derrida Michael Ryan Johns Hopkins University Press / Baltimore Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Protest / Revolt

The Marx-Engels Reader
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Edited by Robert C. Tucker

1972, English
Softcover, 686 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by W W Norton & Co / New York

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This first 1972 edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels -- those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology. The volume is arranged to show both the chronological and the thematic development of the two great thinkers. Selections range in coverage from history, society, and economics, to politics, philosophy, and the strategy and tactics of social revolution.

Friedrich Engels was born in 1820, in the German city of Barmen. He died in London in 1895 while editing the fourth volume of Capital.

Karl Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, completing his doctorate in 1841. Expelled from Prussia in 1844, he took up residence first in Paris and then in London where, in 1867, he published his magnum opus Capital. A co-founder of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864, Marx died in London in 1883.

Robert C. Tucker is professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

G—VG copy. General wear from age, light creases.

File under: Karl Marx Friedrich Engels W W Norton & Co / New York Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Theory / Essay Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt

Global Tools 1973–1975
When Education Coincides with Life

2019, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 27 x 19.5 cm
Published by Nero / Rome

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program “without students or teachers.” The Global Tools journey began with its foundation in 1973 by groups and figures drawn from Italian Radical Architecture, Arte Povera, and Conceptual Art, and ended in 1975 after three years of intense experimentation. This book is both a commentary and an impressive visual archive that brings together essays by international authors and reproductions of many original documents—including the Global Tools bulletins, entirely republished here for the first time. This unique and definitive book marks a fundamental stage in the rediscovery of one of the most fascinating European cultural experiences of the late twentieth century.

Edited by Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini.

With texts by Manola Antonioli and Alessandro Vicari, Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini, Alison J. Clarke, Beatriz Colomina, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco Raggi, Simon Sadler.

Published by Nero in collaboration with SALT, Istanbul.

File under: Global Tools Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Ettore Sottsass Jr. Remo Buti Gianni Pettena Alessandro Mendini Franco Raggi Archizoom Associati Archizoom UFO UFO Group Superstudio Zziggurat Ugo La Pietra 9999 Gruppo 9999 Peter Eisenman Riccardo Dalisi Walter Pichler Adolfo Natalini Gian Piero Frassinelli David Mosconi Inez Klok The Body Group Franco Vaccari Manola Antonioli Alessandro Vicari Valerio Borgonuovo Silvia Franceschini Alison J. Clarke Beatriz Colomina Maurizio Lazzarato Franco Raggi Simon Sadler Fernanda Pivano Nero / Rome Anarchism Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Protest / Revolt Counterculture Art Arte Povera Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

From Weimar to Hitler

1981, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 48 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Goethe-Institut / Münich

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Rare English paperback documentary film programme, "From Weimar to Hitler", published by the
Goethe-Institut, Münich, in 1981. An illustrated essay on films that deal with the history of the late phase and crisis of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism electioneering and documentary films and Germany's tradition of agitprop film. Film stills throughout texts by editor Hans Mommsen, translated to English by Peter Green.

Very Good copy.

File under: Hans Mommsen Goethe-Institut / Münich Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Film / Video Protest / Revolt

The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
by Thomas Crow

2023, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 25.4 x 19 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York

$89.00 - Out of stock

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How California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artists.

The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period's youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in that decade. As their prime exemplar, Bruce Conner, reminisced, "I did everything that everybody did in 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury. . . . I would take peyote and walk out in the streets." And he vividly channeled those experiences into his art, while making his mark on every facet of the psychedelic movement—from the mountains of Mexico with Timothy Leary to the rock ballrooms of San Francisco to the gilded excesses of the New Hollywood. In The Artist in the Counterculture, Thomas Crow tells the story of California art from the 1960s to the 1980s—some of the strongest being made anywhere at the time—and why it cannot be understood apart from the new possibilities of thinking and feeling unleashed by the rebels of the counterculture.

Crow reevaluates Conner and other key figures—from Catholic activist Corita Kent to Black Panther Emory Douglas to ecological witness Bonnie Ora Sherk—as part of a generational cohort galvanized by resistance to war, racial oppression, and environmental degradation. Younger practitioners of performance and installation carried the mindset of rebellion into the 1970s and 1980s, as previously excluded artists of color moved to the forefront in Los Angeles. Mike Kelley, their contemporary, remained unwaveringly true to the late countercultural flowering he had witnessed at the dawn of his career.

The result is a major new account of the counterculture's enduring influence on modern art.

File under: Sister Corita Kent Emory Douglas Mike Kelley Bruce Conner Raymond Pettibon Bas Jan Ader Allen Ruppersberg The Cockettes Sun Ra Sun Ra Arkestra John Baldessari Asco Terry Fox Robert Smithson Michael Asher Lewis Baltz Chris Burden Bonnie Ora Sherk Jenny Lens Gary Grimshaw Vija Clemens Martha Rosler Öyvind Fahlström Senga Nengudi Mowry Baden David Hammons Alexis Smith Helene Winer James Turrell Rupert Garcia Irving Petlin Thomas Crow Princeton University Press / New York Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Counterculture Sociology / Politics Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Film / Video Photography Protest / Revolt

Punk Suprematism
Theoretical Writings On Punk, Nation, State, Art, Buraeucracy, and Socialism

2021, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki

$38.00 - Out of stock

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Punk Suprematism includes the first English translation of theoretical writings on punk, art, socialism, bureaucracy, and nationalism by Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, and Zoja Skušek.

Written in the first half of the eighties, these texts are a unique mixture of punk attitude with theoretical concepts borrowed from Althusser, Lacan, and avant-garde art. Written in a turbulent period of Yugoslav socialism, these texts were trying to understand the political importance of punk as a mass movement of impoverished youth. The conclusions of these interventions had a lasting effect on the theoretical formation of Yugoslav post-Marxism, as well to the organizational forms of the socialist alternative. The book also includes a foreword on the historical context of the eighties and the extensive narrative bibliography of punk related publications in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia written by Sezgin Boynik. In addition to this, it also includes translations of the two editorials to Punk Problemi written by renowned Slovenian theoreticians.

The book is the first in an upcoming series on punk research by Rab-Rab press. The series starts from the idea that punk is a break, and focuses on punk as something completely separated from bourgeois culture.

File under: Slavoj Žižek Rastko Močnik Zoja Skušek Rab-Rab Press / Helsinki Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt Counterculture

THE CRICKET: BLACK MUSIC IN EVOLUTION, 1968–69

2022, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 27 x 22 cm
Published by Blank Forms / New York

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A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue for Black musicians and writers. Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman, and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969 and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based Jihad productions shortly after the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine ran poetry, position papers, and gossip alongside concert and record reviews and essays on music and politics. Over four mimeographed issues, The Cricket laid out an anticommercial ideology and took aim at the conservative jazz press, providing a space for critics, poets, and journalists (including Stanley Crouch, Haki Madhubuti, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez and Keorapetse Kgositsile) and a range of musicians, from Mtume to Black Unity Trio, to devise new styles of music writing. The publication emerged from the heart of a political movement—“a proto-ideology, akin to but younger than the Garveyite movement and the separatism of Elijah Mohammed,” as Spellman writes in the book’s preface—and aimed to reunite advanced art with its community, “to provide Black Music with a powerful historical and critical tool” and to enable avant-garde Black musicians and writers “to finally make a way for themselves.” This publication gathers all issues of the magazine with an introduction by poet and scholar David Grundy, who argues that The Cricket “attempted something that was in many ways entirely new: creating a form of music writing which united politics, poetry, and aesthetics as part of a broader movement for change; resisting the entire apparatus through which music is produced, received, appreciated, distributed, and written about in the Western world; going well beyond the tried-and-tested journalistic route of description, evaluation, and narration.”

Contributors include: A.B. Spellman, Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal, Cecil Taylor, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Ben Caldwell, Clyde Halisi, Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti), Duncan Barber, Gaston Neal, Hilary Broadus, James Stewart, Norman Jordan, Roger Riggins, Ronnie Gross, Stanley Crouch, Albert Ayler, Askia Muhammed Toure, Donald Stone, E. Hill, Haasan Oqwiendha Fum al Hut, Ibn Pori 'det, Ishmael Reed, Joe Goncalves, Larry A. Miller (Katibu), Sonia Sanchez, Willie Kgositsile, Billy (Fundi) Abernathy, Dan Dawson and Black Unity Trio.

David Grundy is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming). He is currently a British Academy Fellow at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where he is working on two manuscripts, Survival Music: Free Jazz Then and Now and Never by Itself Alone: Queer Poetry in Boston and San Francisco, 1943–Present (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and a further edited collection on Umbra.

A.B. Spellman is a poet, music critic, and former director of the Arts in Education Study Project for the National Endowment of the Arts.

File under: Albert Ayler Milford Graves Sun Ra Cecil Taylor Black Unity Trio Amiri Baraka A.B. Spellman Larry Neal Stanley Crouch Haki Madhubuti Ishmael Reed Sonia Sanchez Keorapetse Kgositsile Blank Forms / New York Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Counterculture Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Group Shows / Collections

Images of Class : Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988)
by Jacopo Galimberti

2022, English
Softcover, 416 pages, 15.3 x 23.4 cm
Published by Verso / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual artists such as the members of Archizoom, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gianfranco Baruchello.

This book focuses on the aesthetic and cultural discourse developed by three generations of militants (including Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Bifo and Silvia Federici), and how it was appropriated by artists, architects, graphic designers and architectural historians such as Manfredo Tafuri. Images of Classsignposts key moments of this dialogue, ranging from the drawings published on classe operaia to Potere Operaio's exhibition in Paris, the Metropolitan Indians' zines, a feminist art collective who adhered to the Wages for Housework Campaign, and the N group's experiments with Gestalt theory.

Featuring more than 140 images of artworks, many published here for the first time, this volume provides an original perspective on post-war Italian culture and new insights into some of the most influential Marxist movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries worldwide.

“The 1970s in Italy were a decade of social conflicts and intense cultural and aesthetic innovation, but only now, thanks to the Galimberti’s book we can have a glimpse of the visual dimension of the movement of Autonomia and of the cultural field that is generally known as “operaismo”.”—Franco "Bifo" Berardi

File under: Archizoom Archizoom Associati Jacopo Galimberti Verso / London Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Arte Povera Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

The Day The Country Died : A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
by Ian Glasper

2014, English
Softcover, 496 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Published by Pm Press / Oakland

$46.00 - Out of stock

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The Day the Country Died features author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper (Burning Britain) exploring in minute detail the influential, esoteric, UK anarcho punk scene of the early Eighties.

If the colorful '80s punk bands captured in Burning Britain were loud, political, and uncompromising, those examined in The Day the Country Died were even more so, totally prepared to risk their liberty to communicate the ideals they believed in so passionately.

With Crass and Poison Girls opening the floodgates, the arrival of bands such as Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians, Conflict, Subhumans, Chumbawamba, Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, Antisect, Omega Tribe, and Icons of Filth heralded a brand new age of honesty and integrity in underground music. With a backdrop of Thatcher's Britain, punk music became self-sufficient and considerably more aggressive, blending a DIY ethos with activism to create the perfectly bleak soundtrack to the zeitgeist of a discontented British youth.

It was a time when punk stopped being merely a radical fashion statement, and became a force for real social change; a genuine revolutionary movement, driven by some of the most challenging noises ever committed to tape. Anarchy, as regards punk rock, no longer meant "cash from chaos." It meant "freedom, peace, and unity." Anarcho punk took the rebellion inherent in punk from the beginning to a whole new level of personal awareness.

All the scene's biggest names, and most of the smaller ones, are comprehensively covered with new, exclusive interviews and hundreds of previously unseen photographs.

File under: Crass Poison Girls Zounds Flux of Pink Indians Conflict Subhumans Chumbawamba Amebix Rudimentary Peni Antisect Omega Tribe Icons of Filth Ian Glasper Pm Press / Oakland Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Counterculture Anarchism Animal Rights / Veganism

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

OSAWATOMIE : a Weather Underground publications anthology

2021, English
Softcover, 234 pages, 22.4 x 29 cm
Published by BATT Coop /Paris

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Osawatomie is a direct allusion to the eponymous battle waged by the abolitionist John Brown of whom Victor Hugo at the time of saving him from hanging says "Yes, let America know and think about it, there is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, it is Washington killing Spartacus". By his call to the armed struggle to fight slavery Brown is part of a revolutionary culture which links him in particular to Auguste Blanqui.

At a time when the United States of America seems once again affected by the fever of resistance against racial and social inequalities, it seems opportune to put the documents of the radicals of the 1960s and 1970s back into circulation. The context of the struggle for civil rights and the military expansion in Vietnam then allowed the emergence of a militant generation such as the country had not known since the crushing of the unionism of the IWW (Industrial Worker of the World) and the hunt for communists. From Ghettos to Universities, groups are suddenly forming and organizing in the middle of the sixties into a whole, that history calls New Left. Among them, the student union movement is experiencing through the SDS (Student for a Democratic Society) a peak of 100,000 inscribed members, torn within it by two political organizations, one based on Marxist Leninist orthodoxy, strongly tinged with workerism, refusing the contextual analysis of racial tensions and the particular history of the USA, the Worker Student Alliance (WSA). The other, majority in the SDS, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) wishing to accompany the resistance movements of the Young Lords to the Black Panther Party, opting after the dissolution of the SDS for a strategy of participation in the increase of tensions and confrontations with the power and reactionary America. Thus are formed the Weather Underground in allusion to the words of a Bob Dylan song "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", prophetic adhesion to the imminence of a world revolution. While they are not about taking power, it is about accompanying it to its downfall. Its members, numbering 30, exclusively from the white petty bourgeoisie went underground from 1969 relying on a strong network of thousands of sympathizers. They carry out attacks of symbolic significance which never claim victims, and become much more radicalized in their autarky and publish in low circulation, Osawatomie, a newspaper sent mainly to their relays supposed to withdraw and distribute the publication which will know 6 issues in a year before disappearing with the organization.

The complete collection is reproduced in this book, along with the brochure explaining the organizational explosion, the split. Feminism, anti-imperialist struggle, Vietnam, racism and segregation, sexism, workers' struggles, anti-colonialists, anti-prison in addition to the political orientations of the revolutionary movement are all themes addressed.

File under: BATT Coop /Paris Protest / Revolt Counterculture

T.A.Z. : The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Hakim Bey

1985 / 1991, English
Softcover, 142 pages, 18 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Autonomedia / New York Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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"A Blake Angel on Bad Acid" — Robert Anton Wilson
"Fascinating..." — William Burroughs
"Who is Hakim Bey? I love him!" — Timothy Leary

First trade paperback edition of T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, the underground cult bestseller and first book by anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia. Originally published in 1985 and circulated in the underground via small private and pirate editions, these texts were an inspiration for a generation of troublemakers and idealists. Both celebrated in the punk underground (where the original book has become a seminal text) and denounced in some anarchist circles, the book has proved itself as both influential and relevant to multiple generations of dreamers, agitators, and activists.

Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults — this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture. This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living.

This book contains the full text of "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", the complete "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy", and the new long essay "The Temporary Autonomous Zone".

Very Good copy with some light wear.

File under: Hakim Bey Autonomedia / New York Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Anarchism Counterculture Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay

The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord

2021, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Critical Editions / US

$19.00 - Out of stock

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"The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible..."—The New Yorker

"Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now"—The Guardian

"Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse."—Michael Loewy

First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life.

"In Society of the Spectacle, Debord sets out his best-known statement of how the categories of capitalism colonise everyday life to such an extent that we can barely imagine an existence beyond them."—Sydney Review of Books

"The Society of the Spectacle [is] about not just the clamor of images but also the silence of power, a silence which, since the seventies, has become deafening."—McKenzie Wark

"Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now, in the permanent present that he so accurately foretold? Open his book, read it, be amazed, pour yourself a glass of supermarket wine - as he would wish - and then forget all about it, which is what the Spectacle wants."—Will Self

"In The Society of the Spectacle, Debord made plain that a 'unified critique of culture' implied a critique of the social totality. This was his practico-theoretical method throughout his career as a revolutionary: he saw no distinction between cultural work and political work."—Bruce Russell

Guy Debord (1931-1994) was a Marxist theorist, writer, poet, filmmaker, hypergraphist, cultural revolutionary and a founding member of the Lettrist International and Situationist International - groups that fused avant-garde art and politics as an anti-capitalist weapon. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Debord's Society of the Spectacle, which decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and contemporary life.

File under: Guy Debord Critical Editions / US Theory / Essay Protest / Revolt