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Modern science postulates that our political predispositions can be traced to our genes. To some extent, there is such a thing as “red-state” or “blue-state” DNA. Our brains likewise bear the evolutionary imprint of hundreds of thousands of years of political wiring — for biased partisanship. The result is a political landscape characterized by irrationality and hostility.
Americans today, like citizens of many other countries, find themselves trapped in hostile “red” vs. “blue” political warfare. While liberals and conservatives fight each other for power and influence, the world’s problems go unsolved.
Using recent scientific evidence from neuroscience, behavioral genetics, and evolutionary and cognitive psychology, Red Genes, Blue Genes is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of political irrationality.
isbn 978-1-57027-203-5 : price $16.95 : 304 pagesClick here to buy the book
“The Unbearables bare all; they are unbearably smart, unbearably talented, and unbearably lively — but here are the Unbearables at their highly bearable best. It’s a pleasure to find out what this group finds unbearable in such an engaging manner.” — Samuel Delany, author of Dark Reflections.
isbn 978-1-57027-199-1 : price $16.95 : 320 pagesClick here to buy the book
"With his seventy-two keys, Konrad Becker aims to unlock the gates of strategic reality: its construction over centuries, its imposition through stealth and force, its dull and laborious maintenance, and its dissolution and destruction by those who can’t take it anymore." Brian Holmes
"Having come to the end of the Strategic Reality Dictionary, readers will know there is a deep contradiction within the secular class of reality engineers and behavior managers. While they stake their power on a profound relation to the material and to the measurable, too many invisible forces (those not investigated by physicists) still seem to exist and must be controlled." Critical Art Ensemble
isbn 978-1-57027-202-8 : price $12.95 : 160 pagesClick here to buy the book
"Crisis: What it is, What it is not:
After five hundred years of existence, capitalists are once again announcing to us that their system is in crisis. They are urging everyone to make sacrifices to save its life. We are told that if we do not make these sacrifices, we together face the prospect of a mutual shipwreck. Such threats should be taken seriously. Already in every part of the planet, workers are paying the price of the crisis in retrenchment, mass unemployment, lost pensions, foreclosures, and death."
16-page pamphlet, saddlestitched
isbn None : price $1.95 : 16 pagesClick here to buy the book
Focusing on Italian “videocracy,” Ethereal Shadows documents the emergence of the first Italian media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, and his rises and falls from political power. It also explores Italian media activism through three case studies: a discussion of the first autonomous free radio station, Radio Alice (broadcasting in Bologna between 1977 and 1979); a review of Italian Internet activism focusing on the site Rekombinant.org (launched in 2000); and a chronicle of the emergence of OrfeoTV in 2002, the first illegal micro-TV station in Italy.
isbn 978-1-57027-188-5 : price $12.95 : 148 pagesClick here to buy the book
With a new Introduction by Mariarosa Dalla Costa.
Translated from the Italian by Enda Brophy.
This classic "manifesta" of radical Italian feminism helped define the autonomist-inspired "wages for housework" movement, and identified the capitalist complicity of both the traditional nuclear family as well as the "liberation" of the woman as wage-earner. It is finally available in English translation.
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Following on the prior anthology Revolutionary Writing, this volume of essays in and about contemporary radical political theory is organized in three main parts.
The first section centers on current debates about the concept of Primitive Accumulation, with contributions by the Midnight Notes Collective, Massimo De Angelis, Werner Bonefeld, Paul Zarembka and Mariarosa Dalla Costa.
The middle section examines aspects of subversion in everyday life, with essays by Stevphen Shukaitis, the Leeds May Day Group, Harry Cleaver, and Sergio Tischler.
The concluding section has case studies in national contexts — the United States, Mexico and Argentina — from George Caffentzis, Patrick Cunninghame, and Ana Cecelia Dinerstein, and a final essay by Nick Dyer-Witheford on the concept of ‘The Multitude.’
isbn 978-1-57027-184-7 : price $15.95 : 280 pagesClick here to buy the book
Documents, essays, drawings, and photographs from the editors, Judith Malina, Beate Bennett, Armand Schwerner, and others, including the full scripts of The Tablets, Tumult, Rules of Civility, The Body of God, The Zero Method and more, chronicling a crucial historical period for the longest-surviving avant-guard theatre collective in the United States.
isbn 978-1-57027-197-7 : price $15.95 : 208 pagesClick here to buy the book
New poetic rants and prose poems from the pseudonymous author of TAZ and Millennium and co-editor of Orgies of the Hemp Eaters, among many other influential, incendiary texts. “BLACK FEZ is the emblem of our intransigent disgust with the lukewarm necromantic vacuum of dephlogisticated corpse breath that passes nowadays for Empire and organic death.”
isbn 978-1-57027-187-8 : price $12.95 : 116 pagesClick here to buy the book
These insurgent essays describe, prolong and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that arose with the worldwide wave of protests around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South calls neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence continually return to the streets; but they also unfold in the imagination. Complex discourses and elaborate fictions weave their way through images, gestures and hilarious scenarios, hovering at the edges of reality and searching for whoever will give them voice. Museums, cinemas, books and theaters are temporary abodes for such things, and authors are only a convenience. But none of the wilder spirits ever really disappears. Time leaches away the graffiti of revolt, and the cynicism of power lays a new coat of paint. Still the collective phantoms return.
isbn 978-1-57027-175-5 : price $15.95 : 192 pagesClick here to buy the book
