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15/06/2024

OBASAN & ITSUKA by Joy Kogawa

Obasan (1994, orig. written in 1981) is based on the author’s own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

Itsuka (1994, orig. written in 1992) the sequel to Obasan follows the character Naomi Nakane into adulthood, where she becomes involved in the movement for governmental redress. Much more overtly political than Kogawa’s first book, the story focuses on reaching that itsuka—someday—when the mistreatment of those of Japanese heritage during World War II would be recognized. Although during the war both the United States and Canada interned Japanese-Americans and confiscated their property, when the war ended the property of those in Canada never returned to them. This is the story of the fight to get government compensation for the thousands of victims of the wartime internment, which was, unbelievably, only accomplished in 1988. Both a moving novel of self-discovery and a fascinating historical account of the fight for redress, Itsuka ends with a message of inspiration and hope.

Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver in 1935 to Japanese-Canadian parents. During WWII, Joy and her family were forced to move to Slocan, British Columbia.

14/06/2024

From Rab-Rab Press :

The first English language translation of Robert Linhart’s The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980 is an indispensable factographic inquiry into modern hunger.

Widely acclaimed for his engaged social analyses of proletariat and peasant struggles around the world, Linhart’s inquiry into the sugar regions of North-Eastern Brazil, juxtaposes heterogeneous traits of the impoverished workers’ stories into a vivid cinematic montage.

Alongside the translation, the book also includes ‘The Third World, Investigations, Social Analysis’, an unpublished interview with Linhart from 1980 made by Jean Copans, giving an insight into the political and theoretical background of his investigation in Brazil.

The afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, an active Brazilian Marxist art historian and journalist, further contextualises the importance of Linhart’s book. Renato Martins who recently directed a documentary film Conversations With Robert Linhart discusses The Sugar and the Hunger against the backdrop of today’s world where the practices of expropriation of land and food from peasants and urban poor, which Linhart examined in 1980 on a laboratory-like scale, have now become common global practices, endlessly producing legions of uprooted and hungry refugees.

Translated by John M Floyd and Emilio Sauri, the book includes rare photographs taken by François Manceaux in Northeastern Brazil in 1979.

Designed by Ott Kagovere.

13/06/2024

Generally recognized as India’s first graphic novel, Orijit Sen’s River of Stories ( ) has been out of print for many years. We are excited to bring out the 25th anniversary edition in a handsome hardcover binding with forewords by Arundhati Roy and Paul Gravett, along with a collection of images from Orijit’s sketchbooks.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Sardar Sarovar Dam project in Western India became the focal point of a massive grassroots protest. People from all over the country converged to voice their opposition to environmental destruction and the forced relocation of Adivasi communities, all being done in the name of irresponsible and poorly planned development.

Orijit Sen’s account of the Narmada Bachao Andolan is drawn from his personal experiences from 1991-1993. Weaving together the history of the resistance movement with stories of local people and tribal folklore, River of Stories is an inspiring document of environmental activism, as well as an important milestone of Indian comics history.

Generally recognized as India’s first graphic novel, Orijit Sen’s River of Stories has been out of print for many years. We are excited to bring out the 25th anniversary edition in a handsome hardcover binding with forewords by Arundhati Roy and Paul Gravett, along with a collection of images from Orijit’s sketchbooks.

12/06/2024

Errantry (2023 ) by

Part of an MA thesis Project in Graphic Design, Errantry is an essay on a searching for alternative ways of working, telling time and living.

11/06/2024

SCARY STORY (2023 ) by Alberto Chimal; Translated from the Spanish by D. P. Snyder

SCARY STORY brings one of Mexico’s most exciting literary figures. Shedding light on the brutal violence that continues to target the underprivileged, marginalized, neglected, and oppressed in Mexico and beyond. In the author’s word, SCARY STORY is ‘a hybrid text, equal parts horror story and political poem, and it takes the form of a countdown, imperceptible to everyone in the universe of the story itself.’

10/06/2024

From the Hopscotch archives (not for sale), ‘Music’ (Sufi Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 1973) by Hazrat Inayat Khan

This edition is a reprint in riso by and is now available at Hopscotch Reading Room, by mail, and next month ( July 27-28) at publisher’s fair in Margate, UK

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927) was an exemplar of Universal Sufism and founder of the “Sufi Order in the West” in 1914 in London. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization called the “International Sufi Movement”. He initially came to the West as a representative of classical Indian music, having received the title Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad but soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. “Music” is a compilation of lectures given by Hazrat Inayat Khan. It conveys an insight into the deep knowledge of Indian mysticism and music in a very simple language. His teachings on sound present a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life; science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.

Have a listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5wMi1kPhJo

08/06/2024

Two by Hans Magnus Enzensburger, on the occasion of European elections taking place this weekend:

🌑Political Crumbs (1990 ) Translated by Martin Chalmers

Since the appearance of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s first essays in the 1950s, his work has provided an incisive and eloquent commentary on the progress not only of Germany, but of western societies as a whole. Political Crumbs shows Enzensberger at his best, popularizing intellectual debate with a sharp wit and a willingness to make links between apparently disparate subjects and approaches. From reflections on the delusions of intellectuals, the unpredictability of the political process, the creativity of everyday life, the mysteries of German politics and the anarchy of the normal, two major themes emerge: the consequences for left politics of the breakdown of dogmatism, and the ‘ungovernability’ of complex institutions.

🌑Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent (1990 )

Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways—from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint—and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe’s strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity.

06/06/2024

Sadness of Pleasure: Zen and the Art of Sq**rt (2023) by Ayoto Ataraxia - edited by Justine Liv Olausson

Everything in the world is about Sq**rt. Except Sq**rt. Sq**rt is about power.

In our modern productive times, there is an endemic of non-Sq**rt in our society. There are plenty of books, videos and other information on Sq**rt, yet the topic still seems foreign and alienating. And is it p*e or not?! What do humour and hydroelectricity have to do with Sq**rt? What could a do******ix, an architect, a fashion stylist, a far-right conservative, a choreographer, a social-media expert, a son-of-a preacher man, a sociologist or an ex-monk-turned-gay-actor say on the subject of Sq**rt?

Zen and the Art of Sq**rt is a collection of conversations and essays on the paradoxical nature of the Sadness of Pleasure.

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04/06/2024

All Cotton Briefs, Expanded Edition (1992 ) by M.Kasper

An Album of illustrated short prose, experimental cartoons, anecdotes, parodies, and miniature essays, hand-lettered with accompanying collages and drawings. “

All Cotton Briefs, Expanded Edition is the third, much enlarged version of this album of illustrated short-proses…experimental cartoons…anecdotes, parodies and miniature essays; political, funny…handlettered, with accompanying collages and drawings”–artist’s statement.

“The phrase `to fleece someone’ originated as follows: In 1279, precisely 700 years ago, a group of proto-enterprising brokers in Antwerp announced an increase in the price of wool. They justified it to the weavers with a concoction about an infestation…”

03/06/2024

BROSSURA Manual of Pirate Languages Issue 2 / February 2024 /

English below!

Το δεύτερο τεύχος της brossura είναι εδώ και είναι αφιερωμένο στην Παλαιστίνη. Κατά της συνεχιζόμενης γενοκτονίας. Κατά του πολέμου. Κατά της αποικιοκρατίας και του μιλιταριστικού εφιάλτη.

Απόψε θα πωλείται κατά τη διάρκεια της βραδιάς αναγνώσεων «ΘΑ ΕΠΙΣΤΡΕΨΩ» στο EIGHT/ΟΧΤΩ, Critical Institute for Arts and Politics. Ο τίτλος της εκδήλωσης προέρχεται από το ομώνυμο έργο της Naomi Frisson που έγινε εξώφυλλο του τεύχους. Τα έσοδα από τις πωλήσεις θα διατεθούν στην UNRWA (Υπηρεσία Αρωγής και Έργων του ΟΗΕ για τους Παλαιστινίους Πρόσφυγες στην Εγγύς Ανατολή). Τιμή 5€. Μπορείτε να πληρώσετε μετρητά ή μέσω Pay Pal ([email protected])

Το εισαγωγικό κείμενο αποτελεί μια συρραφή αποσπασμάτων από ομιλίες, βίντεο, άρθρα και συνεντεύξεις που βρέθηκαν στο Instagram, Twitter και You Tube.

ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ | CONTENTS
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ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΞΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΛΑΙΣΤΙΝΗ.

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01/06/2024

Three by Stephen Watts

🌑Journeys Across Breath: Poems, 1975-2005 ( )

‘In Stephen’s poetry, as in life, translation is what makes language possible, variations preserving beauty in the ‘harshness of lives’. This exquisite collection fills me with the faith to ask as it teaches me the necessity of quiet – to breathe in the forest, to hear the dead, to hear the songs and silences of everyone who’s alive.’ – Nisha Ramayya

🌑Twenty-Four Hours ( ) is a remarkable prose poem meditating on time, memory, and childhood, and one of Stephen Watts’ earliest works. Written in the mid-1970s and published here for the first time, Twenty-Four Hoursis an unforgettable burst of lyricism – melancholic yet playful, allusive yet sharp – a significant work from one of the UK’s most treasured poets.

🌑Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds ( ) is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Its non-linear narrative moves between London’s Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants.

31/05/2024

Happy birthday to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982)

🌑Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (2023 ) by Ian Penman

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982). Written quickly under a self-imposed deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and the digital revolution. Compelling, beautifully written and genuinely moving, echoing the fragmentary and reflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran, this is a story that has everything: s*x, drugs, art, the city, cinema and revolution.

🌑Hystericizing Germany; Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz (2013 ) by Manfred Hermes / Translated from the German by Nicholas Grindell

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a subproletarian apocalypse set in the Weimar Republic, provided Fassbinder with material to historicize the avant-garde of the 1920s and redetermine the relationship between utopianism and popular address. While Döblin created his protagonist to be a hysteric, Fassbinder wanted to hystericize the viewer. In this work, along with others from the same period, Fassbinder established a Jewish-German mirror rotating on the axis of the Holocaust.

30/05/2024

Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We re Coming From ( 2002 ) by David Simpson

“Let me tell you where I’m coming from . . .”—so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, “as a parent of two children” or “as an engineer” or “as a college graduate”) in both scholarly inquiry and everyday parlance, we seem to reject adamantly the idea of a universal human subject. Yet what does this rhetoric of self-affiliation tell us? What is its history?

Simpson’s Situatedness casts a critical eye on this currently popular form of identification, suggesting that, far from being a simple turn of phrase, it demarcates a whole structure of thinking. Simpson traces the rhetorical syndrome through its truly interdisciplinary genealogy. Discussing its roles within the fields of legal theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics, he argues that the discourse of situatedness consists of a volatile fusion of modesty and aggressiveness. It oscillates, in other words, between accepting complete causal predetermination and advocating personal agency and responsibility. Simpson’s study neither fully rejects nor endorses the present-day language of self-specification. Rather it calls attention to the limitations and opportunities of situatedness—a notion whose ideological slippage it ultimately sees as allowing late-capitalist liberal democracies to function.

29/05/2024

Special Exits (2014 ) by Joyce Farmer

In this semi-autobiographic novel, which chronicles the decline in health and welfare of an older couple, Joyce Farmer makes the case for elder care reform; now in paperback.

In the vein of Alison Bechdel or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer’s memoir chronicles the decline of the author’s parents’ health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Set in southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as blind Rachel and ailing Lars are trapped in their home without power during the 1992 Rodney King riots), Farmer details the slow, inexorable decline in Lars’ and Rachel’s health, and perfectly captures the timbre of the exchanges between a long-married couple: the affectionate bickering; their gallows humor; their querulousness as their bodies break down.

28/05/2024

Stories of Wounds and Wonder (2024 ) by Nuraini Juliastuti

This experimental children’s book narrates cross-species practices of survival across the Indonesian archipelago, centring the perspectives of local animals such as endangered monkeys, cosmopolitan rats, migrant sparrows and fugitive dogs. Written in the form of a play, its six episodes ground the readers in the animals’ struggles and aspirations as they go about their daily lives and face the consequences of postcolonial erasure, ecological destruction and capitalist expansion. While the stories unfold, their interconnected existences become an archive of uncertainties, where the fate of many different creatures, humans included, is inseparable from each other.

As a script for intergenerational transmission, the book thoughtfully combines dialogues, songs and drawings, with contextualising essays and extensive notations. Through these different modes of reading, children and adults alike will learn about cross-species solidarity and rebellious movements, but also about disappearing Indigenous cosmologies, and the brave women who wove cloths around the mountains in eco-political resistance.

27/05/2024

“First the air is blue and then / it is bluer and then green and then / black I am blacking out and yet / my mask is powerful / It pumps my blood with power”

And Yet My Mask is Powerful (2017 ) emerges from an exhibition by multimedia artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, held at Carroll / Fletcher in London in 2016. Carrying on from their earlier project The Incidental Insurgents (2012-2015), the artists address the apocalyptic logic of perpetual crisis that characterizes the contemporary moment. The project takes its title from Adrienne Rich’s poem “Diving Into the Wreck,” and like that of the poem, its mise-en-scène is a field of wreckage. Here, the artists visit destroyed villages in occupied Palestine, documenting groups of Palestinian youths wearing copies of Neolithic masks. These masks, some of the oldest in the world, were originally found in the West Bank and are now stored in private Israeli collections; they have been copied and 3D-printed by the artists from online exhibition photographs.

The book uses computer screenshots of images framed in software windows, layering them across the pages along with scans and typographic interventions. The work suggests a sense of collapse and return, but one oriented toward futurity, reworking the Arab world’s apocalyptic imaginary into another, parallel, unrealized time.

25/05/2024

4 x The Duel ⚔️From The Art of the Novella series by

🌔 The Duel by Anton Chekhov - Translated by Margarita Shalina 🌔 One of Chekhov’s most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it on a collision course with a decaying, Czarist concept of honor. It ends in the ultimate Chekhovian observation: that fate is often ludicrous.

🌔The Duel by Joseph Conrad🌔 ”Haven’t you heard of the duel going on ever since 1801?”
Conrad’s brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Over decades, on every occasion they chanced to meet, they fought. Both satiric and deeply sad, this masterful tale treats both the futility of war and the absurdity of false honor, war’s necessary accessory.

🌔 The Duel by Aleksandr Kuprin -
Translated by Joshua Billings🌔This rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected, writer— here presented in a dazzling new translation— is an absorbing account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel—over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be a luminous depiction of the end of an era.

🌔 The Duel by Giacomo Casanova - Translated by JAMES MARCUS🌔In this autobiographical tale, a young dandy is forced to flee his hometown after falling afoul of the authorities. But sheltering in the royal court he finds treachery and insult and is eventually positioned into a meaningless confrontation over a woman he cares nothing about. Told with debonair wit and a merciless attitude toward high society, the tale becomes a tense adventure that leads to a surprising outcome.

24/05/2024

Books by artists from mainland China who wish to remain anonymous.

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