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Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAlienation, generational tensions, rampant nationalism and the pervasiveness of atomic danger are all topics that haunted late Soviet citizens, and those fears are reflected in the films meant to [...]
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Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvery culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to […]
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Eugene Thacker – In the Dust of This Planet
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Thacker’s discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating…” Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human [...]
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Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCalling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism–when Victorians were [...]
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Steven Cline – Amok!
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn this collection of recent texts, American surrealist artist Steven Cline has opened the floodgates to his inner worlds, demanding that we take a look. When we do, we are […]
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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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William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwo teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage [...]
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David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues […]
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Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]
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Theory of the Great Game: Writings from Le Grand Jeu
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis book collects the writings of a radical group of writers close to Paris Surrealism–principally René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte–as published in their now legendary magazine, [...]
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Maurice Blanchot – The Book to Come
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDuring the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, […]
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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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Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRobert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in [...]
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Maria Negroni – Elegy for Joseph Cornell
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartElegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue; a collection of metafictional microfictions; a series of prose poems; an artist’s quest; the hero’s journey; a filmography, biography, [...]
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Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAvailable now is the authorized history of the obscure and influential Los Angeles art and music collective World Imitation Productions (WImP). Emerging as creators of collaged and photocopied [...]
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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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The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an [...]
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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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Ibn Khaldûn – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]
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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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Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Love, Sex, Fear, Death […]
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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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Joseph Cornell – Dreams
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]
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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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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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John Fahey – Vampire Vultures
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA wide range of memoir-like pieces, including interviews, letters, and verse, makes this collection a fitting companion to Fahey’s How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life. Published [...]
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known […]
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Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCalle’s first artist’s book documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and [...]
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A Something Else Reader
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA previously unpublished anthology of classic texts from Something Else Press, assembled in the 1970s by Dick Higgins, with works by John Cage, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and many more […]
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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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You’re with Stupid: Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these […]
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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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Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh – Omnicide
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the [...]
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Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]
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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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Constance DeJong – Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to [...]
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Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAvant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate [...]
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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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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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Hans Holbein – The Dance Of Death
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), remembered today for his insightful portraits, was better known in his own time for his varied and extensive graphic works, the most celebrated of which […]
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Simone Weil – Anthology
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPhilosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist — Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil [...]
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDick Higgins and his Something Else Press epitomized the riotous art of the ‘60s There are few art-world figures as influential―and as little known―as Dick Higgins (1938–98), cofounder of Fluxus, [...]
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark […]
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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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E.M Cioran – A Short History Of Decay
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartE. M. Cioran confronts the place of today’s world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this [...]
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Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A truly piercing book.” – Cleo Out of print in the U.S. for far too long, writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s autobiographical feminist [...]
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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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Hito Steyerl – Duty Free Art
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat is the function of art in the era of digital gloablisation? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and […]
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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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Mick Farren – Zones Of Chaos
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMick Farren is a legendary poet, musician, author, critic, activist, countercultural icon, and one of the last true gonzo journalists. Enter his paranoid, radical, drug-addled and excruciatingly [...]
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David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to […]
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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 Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis by the Moors Murderer Ian Brady
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIan Brady and Myra Hindley’s spree of torture, sexual abuse, and murder of children in the 1960s was one of the most appalling series of crimes ever committed in England, […]