Autonomedia - Böcker

Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the struggle against the rebel body and th...

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The critical heritage of Trotsky and Mao examined in two national contexts: focusing on sectarian polyvalence and the diverse historical stances on national and international issues, racism, sexism, gay rights, and student movements.

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An unusual and intensive study of the work of the intellectual progenitors of contemporary Western thought. A battery of insights into how to and how not to think, act, feel, eat, dress, dance, take tea, or fuck. Something like equal parts Gertrud...

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Paul Goodman, anarchist critic and author of Growing Up Absurd and Communitas, never wrote a book devoted exclusively to media. Yet he thought the condition of popular arts and news services in America so desperate that by 1964 he was calling it a...

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Kostelanetz slashes and burns his way through the politics of American culture. Crimes of Culture examines the critical conflicts between literary institutions and the cultural apparatuses of the state. It assaults the status quo'sassumptions on t...

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Nonfiction. This is a document about an underground movement we're slowly bridging together through scattered clans of free thinkers, rebels and artists: groups of angry young people fed up living paycheck to paycheck in the wageslave braindeath p...

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This collection of writings on contemporary psychedelic culture covers a huge range of material, including biographical material on Casteneda, Ganesh Baba, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the Biblical history of certain plants, the intersecting of science a...

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This anthology of Flys zines from 1992-1996 contains equal amounts of surreal comix and twisted prose, describing her daily struggle to keep things going against powerful controlling forces and have some fun, too. Fighting with contemptuous cops, ...

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Cultural Writing. In the beginning there was soma. The Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text of the ancient Indo-Europeans, includes dozens of hymns in praise of this psychedelic plant which, when drunk, takes its subject to the realm of the gods on ...

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The Midnight Notes Collective looks here not only at Mexico's Zapatista revolution directly, but also at its enlightening and heating effects on the new social struggles elsewhere (in Canada, India, Yugoslavia, the United States) against the lates...

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Electromagnetic mind-control, open-air biological testing in New York City subways, and clandestine dosing of citizens with psychotropic drugs are all part of America's little known, yet well-footnoted history of medical abuse. Lab USA chroni...

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'We are all Zapatistas.' Subcomandante MarcosThis book began in 1994, when Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a 10-year-old girl from Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. The ensuing collection of related tales about the warrior-beetle, ...

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'As the primary liberatory project, anarchism - the project which aims at the abolition of all forms of power, control, and coercion - remains entitled to appropriate the work of one of the greatest iconoclasts of all time. And although Nietzsche ...

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From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist Group-and the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it-have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt while playfully i...

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In the heyday of the sixties, during a seven-year stay in the Himalayas, Marilyn Stablein taught herself not only how to cook a curry on a cow-dung patty fire, but to master sadhu rituals like preparing chillums. Whether describing Mishra's bhang ...

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Michael Taussig first visited the Putumayo region of the Colombian Amazon in 1972, and has returned almost annually since 1976 to drink yage (the hallucinogenic vine ayahuasca) by the Mocoa River with his shaman friend, the late Santiago Mutumbajo...

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Fourteen radical essays in "open" or "autonomous" Marxism, subverting (by critiquing) the typical concept of the political, and examining the current configurations of the insurrection of global labour against global capital.Af...

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Womb transplant babies 'within three years.''If implantable wombs become a reality in humans, they need not be confined to women. Some men might also be keen.' Guardian, July 2003Having exhausted the possibilities for geographic colonial expansion...

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Radical essays from the global underground on art, technology, autonomous culture and the politics of the future. Writers and artists from Russia, Romania, India, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Slovenia, Poland, Austria, England, Cro...

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Cyberfeminism: Next Protocols invents and documents with approaches coming from art, theory and activism a cyberfeminism which is dedicated to the wilderness of precise critique and experimental thinking. It opens with the following questions: * W...

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This issue of FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts & Communications is curated around the idea of the political, the transgressive, the risk of making works described by artists living in Mexico and the US. RISK/ RIESGO is 568 bilingual pages of art...

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'Who is Hakim Bey? I love him!' Timothy Leary'Exquisite...' Allen Ginsberg'Hard-line dada/surrealism' Rudy Rucker'A Blake angel on bad acid' Robert Anton Wilson'Scares the shit out of us' Church of the SubGenius The underground cult bestseller! Es...

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Fiction. Experimental Writing. This rueful tale follows an Olympic gold medal winner and his girlfriend on a cross-country trip to revisit his brief moment of triumph and his subsequent long haul on the promotions circuit. Composed in the traditio...

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The interaction between culture and economy was famously explored by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer by the term `Kulturindustrie' (The Culture Industry) to describe the production of mass culture and power relations between capitalist producers...

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Social change does not simply result from resistance to the existing set of conditions but from adapting and transforming the technical apparatus itself. Walter Benjamin in his essay "The Author as Producer" (written in 1934) recommends ...

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These insurgent essays engage with the politics of aesthetics and artistic practice. They include "Cartography of Excess," "Flexible Personality and Networked Resistance," "Psycho-geography and the Imperial Infrastructure,...

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"We heard that the FBI and the Justice Department made a ferocious effort to stop the writing of this book, and after reading it we understand why. Marching Plague offers a radical reframing of the discourse surrounding germ warfare. After re...

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To subvert is to bring to the fore what is hidden beneath the forms of bourgeois respectability - a respectability in which every human contents has its price. To subvert is to imagine the communist individual in revolt against any system - econom...

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New poetic rants and prose poems from the pseudonymous author of TAZ and Millennium, among many other influential, incendiary texts. "BLACK FEZ is the emblem of our intransigent disgust with the lukewarm necromantic vacuum of dephlogisticated...

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Focusing on the recent Italian "videocracy," this book documents the emergence of the first Italian media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, and his rise to and recent fall from political power. It also explores Italian media activism through thr...

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