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Autonogram, "New Editions of Old Books! Radical Bookfairs! Vague Promises! Etc.!"
October 10, 2003 - 9:36am -- jim
ben@autonomedia.org writes:
"New Editions of Old Books! Radical Bookfairs! Vague Promises! Etc.!"
Autonogram
Hello, friends,
Just a few short announcements to make you get out your maps and compasses, and maybe check out a book or two...
Autonomedia's in attendance at THREE bookfairs in the next three weeks! Come to one or all of them -- they promise to be splendid affairs, the lot, and because I enjoy obsessiveness as much as the next guy, I'll gladly give a special award to anyone who DOES show up at all three. Here are the details:1. The Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Bookfair is this weekend (OCTOBER 11 and 12) in Baltimore, put on by the Black Planet Radical Bookstore. For details, a schedule of events, and directions, go to their web site at Black Planet. Look for me behind the piles of discount War in the Neighborhood's, and pick up a 2003 Radical Saints or Sheroes Calendar (they'll probably be free if you ask passionately).
2. The Cheap Small Press Bookfair promises a room full of stimulating, unusual, and certainly cheap books and printed ephemera in Brooklyn on OCTOBER 19, as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival. Nothing at this fair will be more than $10, and the list of participants will cause you to spout verse until people start looking at you with jealous awe. For details on this event, go to Odetogo, and then go to the corner of Front and Washington Streets in DUMBO, Brooklyn, between 11 and 5 on Sunday the 19th.
3. I heard such terrific stories about the New Orleans Radical Bookfair last year that I nearly moved down for good. This year's fair should be ten times as good, certainly quite free with the jubilalia, and probably late to begin and ambling to an end, in that New Orleans way. The event happens on OCTOBER 25 at the Contemporary Arts Center, and they've got about a million different small presses and zines participating, as well as an artists-book show called the Babylon Lexicon happening at the same time. nolabookfair will have the answers to all your questions around this event, and look out for the french-fry po-boys.
* * *
Just in time for all these events, we've got new editions of two classic titles finally ready to walk out the door.
New TAZ! Hakim Bey started writing the essays and communiques in T.A.Z. about twenty years ago, and they still manage to shake people up in unexpected ways. We ran dry the well on this book last year, and rather than do a standard reprint, Hakim Bey agreed to write a new introduction for this edition, reflecting on the life the book itself has had over the years, with an eye towards how it has matured. This edition also includes the full text of "Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics", which originally was published as a pamphlet by Xexoxial Editions in Wisconsin as an extension of material in TAZ. There's a web page for the book at the above link, with more material to come in the near future.
New Pirate Utopias! Peter Lamborn Wilson's 1995 book about European merchants who tired of their Christianity, converted to Islam, and became pirates on the high seas might make you reconsider your career, or at least encourage you to change your wardrobe. Or, if you already ARE a pirate (sorry for the pun!), perhaps there's a secret history of social organization that you'd do well to learn. In any case, renowned piratologists Christopher Hill, Marcus Rediker, and Peter Linebaugh all liked "Pirate Utopias," and the new edition is now available, with added material about a 17th-century Dutch pirate who, along with his wife, raised all kinds of hell in nascent New York City.
* * *
As for vague promises, well, the 2004 Jubilee Saints Calendars and the 2004 Sheroes and Womyn Warriors Calendars are nearly ready; slightly further down the pike are the cyberfeminist collection Next Protocols by the Old Boys Network, a reprint of Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy from Peter Lamborn Wilson, Silvia Federici's long-awaited study of the female body in the transition to capitalism, Caliban and the Witch; the anthology "I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!": Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition and plenty more where that came from. Stay tuned to these occasional Autonograms for notices of availability, and other surprises.
PS: You can join the Autonogram mailing list here
ben@autonomedia.org writes:
"New Editions of Old Books! Radical Bookfairs! Vague Promises! Etc.!"
Autonogram
Hello, friends,
Just a few short announcements to make you get out your maps and compasses, and maybe check out a book or two...
Autonomedia's in attendance at THREE bookfairs in the next three weeks! Come to one or all of them -- they promise to be splendid affairs, the lot, and because I enjoy obsessiveness as much as the next guy, I'll gladly give a special award to anyone who DOES show up at all three. Here are the details:1. The Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Bookfair is this weekend (OCTOBER 11 and 12) in Baltimore, put on by the Black Planet Radical Bookstore. For details, a schedule of events, and directions, go to their web site at Black Planet. Look for me behind the piles of discount War in the Neighborhood's, and pick up a 2003 Radical Saints or Sheroes Calendar (they'll probably be free if you ask passionately).
2. The Cheap Small Press Bookfair promises a room full of stimulating, unusual, and certainly cheap books and printed ephemera in Brooklyn on OCTOBER 19, as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival. Nothing at this fair will be more than $10, and the list of participants will cause you to spout verse until people start looking at you with jealous awe. For details on this event, go to Odetogo, and then go to the corner of Front and Washington Streets in DUMBO, Brooklyn, between 11 and 5 on Sunday the 19th.
3. I heard such terrific stories about the New Orleans Radical Bookfair last year that I nearly moved down for good. This year's fair should be ten times as good, certainly quite free with the jubilalia, and probably late to begin and ambling to an end, in that New Orleans way. The event happens on OCTOBER 25 at the Contemporary Arts Center, and they've got about a million different small presses and zines participating, as well as an artists-book show called the Babylon Lexicon happening at the same time. nolabookfair will have the answers to all your questions around this event, and look out for the french-fry po-boys.
* * *
Just in time for all these events, we've got new editions of two classic titles finally ready to walk out the door.
New TAZ! Hakim Bey started writing the essays and communiques in T.A.Z. about twenty years ago, and they still manage to shake people up in unexpected ways. We ran dry the well on this book last year, and rather than do a standard reprint, Hakim Bey agreed to write a new introduction for this edition, reflecting on the life the book itself has had over the years, with an eye towards how it has matured. This edition also includes the full text of "Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics", which originally was published as a pamphlet by Xexoxial Editions in Wisconsin as an extension of material in TAZ. There's a web page for the book at the above link, with more material to come in the near future.
New Pirate Utopias! Peter Lamborn Wilson's 1995 book about European merchants who tired of their Christianity, converted to Islam, and became pirates on the high seas might make you reconsider your career, or at least encourage you to change your wardrobe. Or, if you already ARE a pirate (sorry for the pun!), perhaps there's a secret history of social organization that you'd do well to learn. In any case, renowned piratologists Christopher Hill, Marcus Rediker, and Peter Linebaugh all liked "Pirate Utopias," and the new edition is now available, with added material about a 17th-century Dutch pirate who, along with his wife, raised all kinds of hell in nascent New York City.
* * *
As for vague promises, well, the 2004 Jubilee Saints Calendars and the 2004 Sheroes and Womyn Warriors Calendars are nearly ready; slightly further down the pike are the cyberfeminist collection Next Protocols by the Old Boys Network, a reprint of Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy from Peter Lamborn Wilson, Silvia Federici's long-awaited study of the female body in the transition to capitalism, Caliban and the Witch; the anthology "I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!": Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition and plenty more where that came from. Stay tuned to these occasional Autonograms for notices of availability, and other surprises.
PS: You can join the Autonogram mailing list here