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Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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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Michel Houellebecq – Annihilation
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIt is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a contentious presidential race, the government falls victim to a series […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Eugene Thacker – An Ideal for Living (20th Anniversary Edition)
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSchism Press brings you the 20th Anniversary Edition of Eugene Thacker’s “anti-novel” An Ideal for Living. In an unnamed city in the not-so-distant future, individuals spend their time in [...]
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Again, Dangerous Visions
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre. Grand Master of the Science Fiction [...]
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Dangerous Visions
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire sub-genre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Fanny Howe – Radical Love: Five Novels
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRadical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe’s novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Sol Yurik – Fertig
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSol Yurick’s cult novel, originally published in 1966, blasts the American judicial system and society in general. It was called ‘one of the fiercest and most effective satires to [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFilmmakers 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 Theological Writings
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“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, Print Add to cartA 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, Print Add to cartAn 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, Print Add to cartIn 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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Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartI Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs [...]
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Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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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Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOver the last few decades, the term “bootlegging”―a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers―has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation and [...]
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Marguerite Young – Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAngel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New [...]
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Brion Gysin – Permutations
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of the ultimates in psychedelic writing & concrete poetry. No one matches Gysin.” – Cleo The first collection of the Beat mentor’s [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir -
The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
$19.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartKara Walker’s work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker’s newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence [...]
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Barry Flanagan: Early Works, 1965-1982
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBarry Flanagan (1941–2009) is best known for his bronze hare sculptures that sit, walk, or leap in museums and public spaces around the world. The success of these and other […]
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Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRobert 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 on the Mafia Coast
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartChasing 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 Hegemony in the Congo
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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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Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart800 works, chosen by Charles Saatchi from his collection, are juxtaposed with media coverage and texts by Richard Cork, Sarah Kent and Dick Price. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999 Hardcover Edition. [...]
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The Basilicas Of Ethiopia: An Architectural History
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church […]
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George Hayduke – Revenge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDepicts 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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Haruki Murakami – Kafka On The Shore
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHere we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince 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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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (as-is, scarce edition)
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWith their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Charles Freger – Cimarron: Freedom And Masquerade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAll across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways established their own communities or joined with [...]
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Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Items Add to cartAt 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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Barth David Schwartz – Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymath—poet, novelist, literary critic, political [...]
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Anne Carson – The Beauty Of The Husband
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartForty 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 Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCollaborators 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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Gail Scott – The Obituary
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott’s part-Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever-shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
William Benton – Birds
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDuring 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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor more than three decades, Fred Ho has been a radical artist and activist. As a composer and baritone saxophonist, he is famed for creating a new music that fuses […]
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A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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 Items Add to cartThe 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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Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis profound essay explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Murat Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around [...]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartVolume 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 from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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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Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThroughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject […]
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Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThese 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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Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in Future Jazz, jazz today is still reaching […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction