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Gershom Gerhard Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – Dictee
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story […]
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Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOver a span of some three and a half decades, Michael Gira’s Swans have risen from chaotic origins in the aftermath of New York’s No Wave scene to become one […]
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]
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Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963–64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and [...]
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Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLeeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five […]
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Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhy, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out […]
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William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?” These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, [...]
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and […]
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Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHow Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens.In October 1989, as the Cold [...]
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Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]
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Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 – Immeasurable Equation
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSun Ra was a master jazz musician unlike any before or after him. Here is a stunning collection of 260 of his cosmic poems and selected prose.
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Anne Carson – Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an [...]
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]
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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]
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Tony Conrad: Writings
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
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Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMoondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth […]
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Victor Segalen – Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipée
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA masterpiece that effortlessly takes its place among the classics of travel writing Victor Segalen (1878-1919) was a French doctor, archaeologist, explorer and author who traveled extensively in [...]
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Dating Ai, a Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDating AI is “a meditation on how to prepare for the unknown,” a thought experiment designed to stimulate new ideas about issues that are important now as well as in […]
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Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDrawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the [...]
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Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartInterest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why? Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than […]
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Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]
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Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPhrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG / JLG, 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, For Ever […]
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Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni […]
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Harry Smith: American Magus
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith. Best known during his lifetime as an experimental [...]
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Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]
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Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing [...]
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John Waters – Shock Value
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation.” Thus begins John Waters’s [...]
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Walter Benjamin – Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century–as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter […]
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and [...]
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Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks–And What It Can Teach Us
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. […]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
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Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]
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Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]
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Simon Sellars – Applied Ballardianism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global [...]
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Construction Site for Possible Worlds
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPerspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, [...]
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American Hardcore: A Tribal History
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSteven Blush’s “definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk” (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American [...]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]
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The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers [...]
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All Gates Open: The Story Of Can
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAll Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, […]
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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]
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Jason Hellar – Strange Stars
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ‘n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s Beginning with David Bowie’s obsession [...]
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Trash Cinema: The Lure of the Low
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the […]
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On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
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Andy Roberts – Divine Rascal
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA biography of a key figure in psychedelic history: the man who turned Timothy Leary on to LSD.Of all the figures associated with the history of LSD there is none […]
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Morton Feldman – Give My Regards To Eighth Street
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMorton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing some of the avant-garde’s most lucid considerations of what it means to make music Morton [...]