Third Eye: 28105 Days in the Life of Clayton Patterson, a bionovel by Istvan Kantor

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Third Eye: 28105 Days in the Life of Clayton Patterson, a bionovel by Istvan Kantor

Third Eye tells the life story of Lower East Side-based internationally acclaimed street artist and documentarian Clayton Patterson. He was born into a struggling working-class family in Calgary, Canada, in 1948, and as a youth he suffered from a lack of self-confidence. Through changing environments, followed by a series of illuminating experiences in the company of painter/sculptor Elsa Rensaa, they emerged into the vital milieu of the LES art community, becoming part of a new breed of artists and fronrunners of the NYC underground art scene. On Auigst 6/7, 1988, Clayton captured on video the Tompkins Square Park police riot, a long night of police brutality against peaceful protestors and passers-by. His video provided indisputable evidence that the NYPD were responsible for inciting a police riot. By confronting an authoritarian system of control with the use of a consumer video camera,...

EndNotes #5: The Passions and the Interests

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Endnotes is a journal/book series published by a discussion group based in Germany, the UK and the US. The original group was formed in Brighton, UK in 2005 primarily from former participants in the journal Aufheben, after a critical exchange between Aufheben and the French journal Théorie Communiste. But with migration and the addition of new members the group has become increasingly international. Endnotes is primarily oriented towards conceptualising the conditions of possibility of a communist overcoming of the capitalist mode of production—and of the multiple structures of domination which pattern societies characterised by that mode of production—starting from present conditions. As such it has been concerned with debates in “communist theory”, and particularly the problematic of “communisation” which emerged from the post-68 French ultra-left; the question of gender and its abolition; the analysis of contemporary struggles, movements and political economy; the dynamics of surplus population and its effects on capital and class; capitalist formations of “race”; value-form theory and systematic dialectics;...

Critical Art Ensemble: The Artistic War Machine and the Anthropotechnical Arsenals of Revolt, by Lucas Fortunato

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Critical Art Ensemble: The Artistic War Machine and the Anthropotechnical Arsenals of Revolt, by Lucas Fortunato

In the twentieth century, art fully entered the field of political and social struggle. At critical moments, movements such as futurism, dadaism, surrealism, and the situationists contributed to cultural transformations. Through manifestos, performances, interventions, and activism, the historical avant-gardes used creativity to build a true artistic war machine.

Inheriting this legacy, the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) collective stands as a leading force in contemporary art-revolt, seeking to intervene in the public sphere through an aesthetic of disturbance. For over three decades, CAE has developed a micropolitics of creation using a variety of innovative anthropotechnics: recombinant theater, molecular interventions, utopian plagiarism, electronic civil disobedience, installations, and performances as forms of cultural activism.

Based on detailed research, this book presents historical snapshots, theoretical insights, and connections with avant-garde movements, tactical media, electronic resistance, and bioactivism.

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2026 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints

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2026 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!
Artwork by James Koehnline and Text by the Sacred Congregation for Universal Jubilation

Now in Full Color! Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2026! Our 34th annual wall calendar. Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the New World and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear at the dawn of this new millennium that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever! Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!

ISBN: 9781570274459
Saddlestitched, full color, 16″x11.75″, 32 pages, $10
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JUNK: The MetaLphysical Art of Cowboy Ray Kelly, by Istvan Kantor

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JUNK: The MetaLphysical Art of Cowboy Ray Kelly, a bionovel by Istvan Kantor

JUNK features the realm of the rough, heavy-weight, metaLphysical art of Cowboy Ray Kelly and the Rivington School, Neoist comrades of author Istvan Kantor — welders, graffiti artists, anarchists, noise makers, punks, poets, painters, drug users, performance artists, photographers, film and video makers, writers, journalists, refugees…

In 1985 they took over an abandoned lot in New York’s Lower East Side and turned it into a monumental scrapmetal garden and free community space. It was built and rebuilt three times due to being bulldozed down by the city under false accusations of endangerment, obstruction, illegal undertakings, constant noise, fire hazard, use of drugs and other criminal activities.

A pioneer of social street art, Cowboy Ray Kelly’s work is in certain ways analogous to that of Joseph Beuys’ ecological activism and social sculpture concept, but while Beuys communicated through overly dramatic gestures and loud theoretical talks,...

Cities For a Single Planet: A Model For the Ecological Transformation of the Earth, by Hans Widmer, with P. Antoniadis, M. Baumgartner and D. Spuhler

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Cities For a Single Planet: A Model For the Ecological Transformation of the Earth, by Hans Widmer, with P. Antoniadis, M. Baumgartner and D. Spuhler

The authors and most of the collaborators of this publication are all members of Neustart Schweiz, an independent study group that has been reinventing itself since 2010. The members of the group are active in cooperatives, citi-zens’ initiatives, ecological organizations, and scientific institutions.

Our main activity has consisted in putting together publications, giving talks and participating in discussions in Switzerland, Germany, France and other countries. The discussions are always animated and sometimes lead to concrete projects. People are usually pissed when they see the graphs showing ecological limits. It is fun to be missionaries of the new “urban”.

Based on previous publications of the Neustart Schweiz team, the focus of this book will be on boroughs (20,000 citizens) and cities (500,000). After the presentation of our model and the special studies (IT,...