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04/11/2024

“Forget about essences.” Philosopher Daniel Dennett on how modern-day philosophers should be more collaborative with scientists if they want to make revolutionary developments in their fields.

03/31/2024

RIP Marjorie Perloff
From the NY Times obituary, authored by Clay Risen:

Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92

A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.

Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive, at times idiosyncratic readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on Sunday at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 92.

Her daughters, Carey and Nancy Perloff, confirmed the death.

Professor Perloff gained notice with her 1977 book “Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters,” the first full-length assessment of a writer who until then had been largely ignored by scholars but who, in part thanks to her, has since come to be regarded as one of the most significant American poets of the past century.

Though Professor Perloff took emeritus status in 2001 [at Stanford University], she remained active, writing reviews and essays for journals like Boston Review and The Times Literary Supplement, as well as seven more books, including a memoir, “The Vienna Paradox” (2004), and, in 2022, her translation of notebooks that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein kept during World War I.

Just a few weeks before her death, the publisher Liveright released a new translation of Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” with a foreword by Professor Perloff.
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12/20/2023

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11/16/2023

We've published a new edition of Kirkpatrick's Sale history of SDS, originally released by Random House in 1973. With the author’s new contextual preface, 50 years after original publication. Link to order in comments.

SDS, or Students for a Democratic Society, was one of the largest national student activist organizations of the 1960s, with over 300 college campus chapters by 1965. This influential New Left group was founded in 1960 as a student offshoot of the socialist League for Industrial Democracy (LID). With the publication in 1962 of their manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS outlined their belief in participatory democracy and their goal to fight social injustices through non-violent means. Initially the group focused on promoting citizen engagement with politics and the civil rights movement, but pivoted to anti-war demonstrations and protests of the Vietnam War and the draft, and then to anti-communist, anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian struggles more generally. While SDS ultimately splintered and disbanded in 1969, in more recent years younger students have struggled to revive it.

“Sale’s objective and detailed treatment of this period… gives the best overall sense of what was transpiring.” — Abbie Hoffman

“This big, painstakingly researched history… easily qualifies as the definitive work.” — New York Times

“Written just years after the collapse of the organization, and with access to their extensive archives…. Full of first-hand accounts organized chronologically through the organization’s ten-year history… an essential source for research.”— Anti-imperialist.org

“Sale gives us…a history of tactics more and more radical followed by repression more and more severe.” — Journal of Contemporary Sociology

11/15/2023

“Either we submit to the dissociative logic of the web, or we turn to forms of defending embodied life.”

Communion is the second issue of Woodbine’s printed journal The Reservoir, featuring new texts by Kazembe Balagun, Elizabeth Povinelli, Geert Lovink, Kristin Ross, Experimental Jetset, and Marcello Tarì, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Félix Guattari. Released in September, $12, link to order in comments.

From the introduction: “The theme for this issue, Belief and the Communal, was a question to ourselves – not just a documentation of who and what we are, but a critical consideration of who we would like to be. To speak of belief carries with it the sense not just of logic but of faith. History tells us that successful experiments in communal life often have an organizing belief. They have a shared faith. But when our structures of life are oriented around the instrumental and utilitarian, the non-religious and secular, how can we re-enchant the world, the city, each other? How can we mobilize networks of newly binding enchantments for the next epoch of societal re-organization? For us this question touches on the old anarchist framework of free association, of the voluntary assembly of individuals. Needed ever-more in a metropolis like New York, but ever more rare and fleeting. It touches on the question of desire, to gather outside of work, outside of the market, to cultivate a generosity of thought and spirit, of time and attention.”

Communion features archival texts by and reflections on Black Mountain College and the Gate Hill artists cooperative, Murray Bookchin, the Catholic Worker, Co-op City, Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall and Ganienkeh, George Jackson and The Black Panther Party, Llano del Rio, Provo, M.C. Richards, the Shakers, the ZAD, and more. With original art, comics, essays, fiction, illustrations, interviews, letters, photography, poetry, transcripts, and translations from more than 30 contributors, and design by Kevin McCaughey.

01/31/2023

09/15/2022

“ The wallpaper on his phone”

09/27/2020

Dear Friends and Comrades,

Please join us virtually on Zoom at 2PM Sunday, September 27 for a discussion of Marxism & Witchcraft with author David Kubrin, from the New York Virtual Anarchist Book Fair!

Utopian-communitarian, historian and philosopher of science, co-founder of the Liberation School, Bay Area witch, associate of Starhawk, David Kubrin has penned his magnum opus, ranging from a critique of Marx and Engels’ theories of religion to the spiritual ecology of primitivism, from the hermetic imperialism of John Dee to Newton’s occult alchemical cosmogony, from A***n techgnosis to the coming digital tsunamis, from the trance of mechanism and the enslavement to leisure on to the not-so-Final Conflict. Will you be riding a broomstick to the insurrection?

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06/28/2020

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06/02/2020

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I have just created a public Facebook grooup called Moronarchy, and invite contributions from the general intellect. Must be Trump-related images, absolutely no commerce. I have started to trime the prump. Please join! Abrazos, Jim

12/10/2019

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05/27/2019

The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Presents:
Brooklyn Abridged

May 30 - June 9
at
The Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St, New York, NY 10009
(Between Avenue A & Avenue B)

$30 Advance General Admission || $35 At the Door

The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, New York City's acclaimed variety arts ensemble, returns to the Connelly Theater with Brooklyn Abridged. This all-new production combines history, humor, and heart with an eclectic cast and crew showcasing circus artistry, original live music, and live analog projections into intertwined vignettes that tell the story of Brooklyn and the citizens who live, work, and play there. In this highly stylized visual and aural journey through the beautiful borough of Brooklyn, characters showcase their individual artistry in the setting of some of the borough’s most iconic landmarks. The New York Times has said of the Bindlestiffs, "There are certain things that make New York City so incredibly special. And this is one of them."

This production is directed, designed, and written by David Gallo Design, which creates innovative visual storytelling for Broadway plays and musicals, network television, arena concerts, large-scale immersive entertainment, and all kinds of live events. Founder David Gallo's work has been recognized with one Tony award, two Emmy awards, an Obie Award for Continued Excellence, and many other honors. Brooklyn Abridged features cast members Cassady Rose Bonjo, Angela Butch, Yoni Kallai, Esther de Monteflores, Ermiyas Muluken, Kenneth Stephen Neil, and Keith Nelson with live projection performances by Viveca Gardiner, Amelia Modlin, and David Gallo. The production was written, directed and designed by David Gallo Design. Music composed by Sxip Shirey and performed by Sxip Shirey and Nathan Repasz, sound design by Kris Anton, and lead roustabout Logan Kerr.

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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents Brooklyn Abridged, a highly stylized visual and aural journey through the beautiful borough of Brooklyn, where citizens, civil servants, and visitors showcase individual artistry set against iconic landmarks. Combining history, humor, and heart, this unusual ensemb...

12/24/2018

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12/15/2018

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08/13/2018

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08/13/2018

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04/16/2018

Until now, no one has ever written a book about how the secret grand jury system works in this country from the inside—from the point of view of a grand juror. The Trial Before the Trial is that insider’s expose. Ernest Larsen served nine days on a special narcotics grand jury in Manhattan before being forced off—at the insistence of the district attorney—and accused of contempt of court. Why? Because day after day he kept trying to halt what he saw as the exercise of racialized injustice. This book, at once ironic and angry, written in the form of a nonfiction novel, brings to light what really happens on a grand jury, a factual story that takes place just a few months before the events in Ferguson, Missouri and the rise of Black Lives Matter.

“For years, now, Autonomedia has published some of the most provocative political thinking we’ve seen from a small press. The Trial Before the Trial is right in there with the best and most interesting.” — Samuel R. Delany

"Richard Pryor said when he went to court seeking justice what he found was ‘just us.’ Forty years later Ernie Larsen again has found ‘just us.’ Through his extraordinary observations that are fascinating, engaging, troubling, really funny and a whole lot more, Larsen finds a broken system of justice that discourages curiosity and defies common sense and reason. Unfortunately, what is revealed is not shocking but the changing same: the tragic dimensions of justice. Larsen finds himself in a conundrum. While he cannot sit in judgment of his fellow human beings, he can judge a system that was meant to protect and serve." — Carrie Mae Weems

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03/23/2018

Please join Autonomedia and the Aaron Burr Society for an event celebrating the publication of "Wall Street in Black and White: Fotos and Text of an Occupier," with Jim Costanzo, at Bluestockings Bookstore, 129 Allen Street, Manhattan, on Monday night, March 26, 2018 at 7PM.

12/03/2017

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12/03/2017

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12/03/2017

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11/02/2017

Join us at Bluestockings!

Book launch: No Blood for Oil!: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle, and War with George Caffentzis

Tuesday, Nov 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

“No Blood For Oil!” is a book of more than twenty essays written between 1998 and 2016 that uses Marxist concepts (some old, some new) to answer many political questions posed by that modern Sphinx, the global oil industry: These questions range from “why did the 9/11 massacre occur when and where it did?” to “Why has the boom in fracking occurred when and where it did?”

11/01/2017

Join us at Bluestockings!

Book launch: No Blood for Oil!: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle, and War with George Caffentzis
Tuesday, Nov 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

“No Blood For Oil!” is a book of more than twenty essays written between 1998 and 2016 that uses Marxist concepts (some old, some new) to answer many political questions posed by that modern Sphinx, the global oil industry: These questions range from “why did the 9/11 massacre occur when and where it did?” to “Why has the boom in fracking occurred when and where it did?”

11/01/2017

Join us at Bluestockings!

Book launch: No Blood for Oil!: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle, and War with George Caffentzis
Tuesday,Nov 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
“No Blood For Oil!” is a book of more than twenty essays written between 1998 and 2016 that uses Marxist concepts (some old, some new) to answer many political questions posed by that modern Sphinx, the global oil industry: These questions range from “why did the 9/11 massacre occur when and where it did?” to “Why has the boom in fracking occurred when and where it did?”

09/09/2017

07/12/2017

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12/06/2016

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