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Joseph Beuys: The Reader
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)—legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial—remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically [...]
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Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe infamous “Moors Murderer,” writing from his U.K. jail cell, Brady provides a rambling account of the socio-philosophical and psychological genesis of the modern day serial killer, [...]
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Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing …
$40.00 | Book, PrintAs the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]
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Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
$15.00 | Book, PrintAn aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]
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Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
$20.00 | Book, PrintJeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]
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Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
$24.00 | Book, PrintKyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]
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John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
$25.00 | Book, PrintIt was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]
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Situationist International Anthology
$30.00 | Book, PrintThe Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came [...]
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
$29.00 | Book, PrintThe foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]
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Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang W…
$19.00 | Book, PrintIn 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]
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Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
$32.00 | Book, PrintBetween 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]
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Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the…
$34.00 | Book, PrintThe first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]
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Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
$32.00 | Book, PrintOther Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]
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Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War…
$30.00 | Book, PrintFar from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the [...]
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Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$31.00 | Book, PrintThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic [...]
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Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
$29.00 | Book, PrintFilmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere, [...]
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Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and …
$32.00 | Book, Print“In these critical times nothing could be more valuable for the West than a rediscovery of its true spiritual heritage: books which were once the treasures of people, now rare […]
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Pascal Quignard – The Roving Shadows
$19.00 | Book, PrintA bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death. The first book in Pascal Quignard’s Last Kingdom series, The Roving Shadows can [...]
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
$20.00 | Book, PrintAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of [...]
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John C. Lilly – Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space
$17.00 | Book, PrintIn this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or far-out spaces,” as Lilly called [...]
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Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
$40.00 | Book, PrintThe unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This is the first book in English dedicated to its historical and aesthetic evolution. The expansive [...]
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Rosemarie & Keith Waldrop – Keeping / The Window Open: Inte…
$28.00 | Book, PrintA rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple [...]
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Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
$20.00 | Book, PrintDo the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]
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David Toop – Ocean Of Sound: Ambient Sound & Radical Listen…
$16.00 | Book, PrintWhat our staff has to say: “Great book that does a great job of breaking down the various was of listening and hearing sounds and how in turn those sounds […]
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Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths amo…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Desjarlais’s graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and [...]
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Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsChasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story of modern slavery in Europe and how the plight of those most in need is […]
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Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the [...]
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George Hayduke – Revenge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDepicts pranks that can be used to humiliate, defame, insult, or trick individuals or organizations on whom one seeks revenge Lyle Stuart, 1982 Softcover Edition. Some discoloration to wraps and [...]
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Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince its intitial publication in 1920, this book has remained the supreme arbiter in all matters of dispute concerning the occult. Contains 2,500 entries and articles summarizing the entire [...]
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Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a [...]
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Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain […]
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Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us […]
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Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue—from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and […]
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Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsForty years after the 1921 murder of distinguised silent film director William Desmond Taylor, another famed director, King Vidor, ferreted out Taylor’s murderer. The full story of this [...]
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Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Al…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCollaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical [...]
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Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing G…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for […]
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A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of t…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and [...]
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Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first publication in English of the great Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s manifestos, published originally in 1925. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or [...]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsVolume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and […]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music fr…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African […]
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Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThese articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original [...]
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Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWriters are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them—to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under […]
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Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term “poetic voice” emphasizes poetry’s reliance on [...]
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Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels [...]
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Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJust as Andy Kaufman subverted traditional forms of comedy, Julie Hecht, with her deadpan wit and highly original style, subverts the traditional form of the profile with her acclaimed nonfiction [...]
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NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Fi…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is [...]
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Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Goi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s […]
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Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel [...]
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Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA collection of Jameson’s essays related to literary theory. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchant…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life. This work ingeniously [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction