Infinity Land Press

22/12/2024

Many thanks to Dennis Cooper for including SHAME and Grave Desire among his favourite titles of 2024.

10/12/2024

Out now.

Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Eugene Thacker A delirious mixture of confession, indictment, and abdication, these letters document Baudelaire’s own dark night of the soul, a spiritual itinerary saturated with the hues of catatonic depression, a pervasive existential dysphoria, an...

07/12/2024

Today on Dennis Cooper's Blog:

Please welcome to the world … SHAME by Wolfe Margolies (Infinity Land Press)

Please welcome to the world … SHAME by Wolfe Margolies (Infinity Land Press) December 7, 2024 / DC / 0 Comments   SHAME is not your enemy. SHAME aids survival, incentivizing you to blend in, thereby concealing yourself from predators and avoiding conflict with peers, while pride aids reproduction...

05/12/2024

Out Sunday the 8th of December.
Now available for pre-order
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Horror of Life – The Su***de Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Edited, translated and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker

Artworks by Martin Bladh
Photographs by Karolina Urbaniak

Hardcover, 180 pages, 190 x 148mm
Shipping 9th December 2024​




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02/12/2024

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Horror of Life – The Su***de Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Edited, translated and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker

Artworks by Martin Bladh
Photographs by Karolina Urbaniak

Hardcover, 180 pages, 190 x 148mm
Shipping 9th December 2024

16/11/2024

Now available for pre-order
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/horroroflife-thesu***delettersofcharlesbaudelaire

Horror of Life – The Su***de Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Edited, translated and with an introduction by ​Eugene Thacker

Hardcover, 180 pages, 190 x 148mm
Out 8th December 2024
Shipping 9th December 2024

In the summer of 1845, a young, wayward, and disaffected Charles Baudelaire made a su***de attempt, writing letters that were to constitute his last will and testament. It was to be one of several suicidal crises which would punctuate Baudelaire’s life over the next twenty years, acutely documented in his correspondence, where the themes of depression, debt, and death come together to delineate a life that was lived, in almost every way, against life.

Horror of Life – The Su***de Letters of Charles Baudelaire brings together a selection of Baudelaire’s letters that spans his life as a writer, from the scandal and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil, to the images of urban decay depicted in Paris Spleen, to his dossier on the ‘artificial paradises’ of hallucinogens, to the essays on the mal du siècle of 19th century modernity, to his late fragments of misanthropic autofiction, and his final days as a convalescent, disease slowly eroding both body and mind.

A delirious mixture of confession, indictment, and abdication, these letters document Baudelaire’s own dark night of the soul, a spiritual itinerary saturated with the hues of catatonic depression, a pervasive existential dysphoria, and the always-looming allure of death.​​

Artworks by Martin Bladh
Photographs by Karolina Urbaniak

Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Eugene Thacker A delirious mixture of confession, indictment, and abdication, these letters document Baudelaire’s own dark night of the soul, a spiritual itinerary saturated with the hues of catatonic depression, a pervasive existential dysphoria, an...

16/11/2024

Now available for pre-order
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/shame

SHAME
By Wolfe Margolies

Softbound with flaps
194 pages, 148 x210mm
Out 7th December 2024
Shipping 9th December 2024

I love Wolfe Margolies’s writing. The vehemence, roughshod poetry, and its sense of having needed to exist recalls French literary scourges like Guyotat, Celine and Genet. At the same time his writing has an impassioned “anyone could do this” clarity and a beseeching tenderness that’s distinctly American and totally his. SHAME is a novel that could inspire readers to be writers and writers to be great writers. —Dennis Cooper​

SHAME is truly fantastic. A philosophical purging of a young pervert’s darkest obsessions.—Lydia Lunch​

SHAME is not your enemy. SHAME aids survival, incentivizing you to blend in, thereby concealing yourself from predators and avoiding conflict with peers, while pride aids reproduction, motivating you to stand out, thereby attracting mates. Evolution did not design you to be happy, only to behave in ways which benefit your genes, in this case by disguising socially undesirable traits. SHAME is like a mother who restricts her child’s freedom in order to keep him safe. Ideally, her admonitions foster social integration, but sometimes they backfire. Sometimes her children rebel.
SHAME prevents social injury. Socialized people suppress their impermissible desires and cover the occasional aberration with hypocrisy and self-deception. The characters in this book, however, try to eradicate SHAME, by finding masochistic enjoyment in it or by transgressing so often, or getting so high, that they become numb to it. When SHAME no longer serves as a deterrent, when man seeks harmony with himself by battling his group, he trades his sense of belonging, with its accompanying inhibitions, for freedom with accompanying alienation. He makes himself an outcast, a criminal, a kamikaze for inner peace.

Following in the tradition of prison writers like Jean Genet, Jack Henry Abbott and de Sade, Wolfe Margolies’s SHAME is one of the decade's most urgent and disturbing debut novels.

Foreword by Lydia Lunch
Illustrated by Karolina Urbaniak & Wolfe Margolies
With an interview conducted by Martin Bladh

Following in the tradition of prison writers like Jean Genet, Jack Henry Abbott and de Sade, SHAME by Wolfe Margolies – part fiction, part autobiography – is one of the most urgent and disturbing debut novels of the decade.

01/08/2024

This week on WAKE ISLAND PODCAST:
Grave Desire with Steve Finbow

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wake-island/id1485799907?i=1000663907411





In this episode with Steve Finbow, we tease out the point at which a body ceases to be considered a person and chart the development of trauma over time, tracing the fine line between disgust and desire. We get into the motivations behind necrophilia and co**se desecration, examining the boundaries of how taboos can become normalized. We discuss the role of the soul or consciousness in elevating necrophilia to a mythic realm and the pursuit of the death drive in objects of beauty. We also consider art as both a method and a way of life, and whether societal breakdowns due to acceleration will increase instances of necrophilia in the future.

Necrophilia has shadowed humanity throughout its existence, from ancient Egypt, to the Moche culture of Peru, the exploits of the renowned Vampire of Montparnasse, the sexual murders of the Weimar Republic, through to serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. This new edition of Grave Desire – with artworks by Karolina Urbaniak – delves unflinchingly into the myths, art and practices surrounding this taboo subject. Finding Juliet’s catatonic body and believing she had poisoned herself, it could have crossed Romeo’s mind to act out the unthinkable. Maybe Juliet, seeing Romeo’s co**se, considered a little sexual frottage before she stabbed herself with the ph***ic dagger. Repulsive yet real, disgusting and disturbing, this is an erotic book of the dead.

Buy Grave Desire from Infinity Land Press.

Steve Finbow’s non-fiction includes Allen Ginsberg: Critical Lives (Reaktion), Notes from the Sick Room (Repeater), Death Mort Tod (Infinity Land Press), The Mindshaft (Amphetamine Sulphate), Polaroid Haiku – with Jukka Siikala (Infinity Land Press), The Life of the Artist Niccolò di Mescolano (Alberegno Press). Sanbashi – a biography of the postwar Japanese photographer Toru Nakagami – will be published in 2024.

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01/08/2024

A few photos from 'Readings of Recent and Forthcoming English Language Book Translations of Artaud’s Work', the closing part of 'Antonin Artaud: New Critical Reflections' conference.

Massive thanks to Dr Matt Melia and Professor Stephen Barber for organising this special event and to all the speakers for their insightful and inspiring research on Antonin Artaud.

Reading in the order:
Stephen Barber
Stuart Kendall
Joel White
Martin Bladh (reading Peter Valente’s translations)
Paul Buck

01/08/2024

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