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Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
$10.00 | Cassette, CS Add to cartTHE FINAL RELEASE ON TORN LIGHT RECORDS Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Reggae / Dub -
Daniel Lentz – Missa Umbrarum
$36.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart“‘Missa’ is the third release by experimental American composer Daniel Lentz, a true unsung genius of the 80s modern classical age. According to the album’s performance notes, the highly [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Alva Noto Feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski – Subterranean…
$19.00 | 12", Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart“NOTON is pleased to announce the release of Subterraneans, a collaborative EP featuring Alva Noto, Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore and William Basinski’s cover of David Bowie’s homonymous [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Walter Benjamin – One-Way Street and Other Writings
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWalter Benjamin – philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist – was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Why Are We ‘Artists’? : 100 World Art Manifestos
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArt is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right’. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists’ manifestos from across the globe over the […]
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Georges Bataille – Eroticism
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ‘churches’, Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most [...]
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The Psychedelic Experience : A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the…
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent [...]
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Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch : Women, the Body and Pr…
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici’s history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving […]
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Edward W. Said – Orientalism
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation – a way [...]
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Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for [...]
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Susan Sontag – On Photography
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSusan Sontag’s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
E.M. Cioran – A Short History of Decay
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran’s nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
G.I. Gurdjieff – Meetings with Remarkable Men
$16.00 | Uncategorized Add to cartThe exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff’Gurdjieff’s voice is heard as a call. He calls because he suffers from [...]
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Liam Gillick – Five or Six
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartfive or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989. The book includes some of the formal, social, and […]
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Thomas Moynihan – X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinc…
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHow humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our [...]
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Philippa Snow – Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury…
$7.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA few weeks before he died, Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for Jackass’ Johnny Knoxville: “I might be coming to Baton Rouge… and if I do I will […]
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TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first biography in English of Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada and one of the most important figures in the European avant-garde. Tristan Tzara, one of the most important […]
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Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTranslating the experience of film: filmmakers, writers, and artists explore the elements of film that make us feel “outside and inside at the same time.” “Every film is a [...]
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J.G Ballard – Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was [...]
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Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe final iteration of Rainer’s dance rant A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time account of Rainer’s creative process. [...]
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Presence: A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRecently, the idea of “presence” has returned to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In February 2013, in Zurich’s historical Cabaret Voltaire, which was central to the [...]
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Ben Ware – On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOn Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without […]
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Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBeyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Michael Snow (October Files)
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Medium of Contingency (Urbanomic / Redactions)
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial markets, and the art world. Why has the concept of contingency taken on a marked importance both in contemporary philosophy and in [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty Three Stud…
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students On September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Isa Genzken (October Files)
$7.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGenerously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken’s remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages. Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
$11.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Hydroplutonic Kernow (Urbanomic / Redactions)
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall’s industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action. This unique document provides a pioneering case study in [...]
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French Theory and American Art
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMany postwar American artists were influenced by French philosophy, literary studies, and social sciences. Accordingly, a number of French authors gathered under the label “French [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Epiphanies: Life-Changing Encounters with Music
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe monthly Epiphanies column – which has been running in The Wire magazine since January 1998 – celebrates music’s transformative power in a series of personal testimonials [...]
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Jacques Rancière – The Emancipated Spectator
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, […]
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Ben Watson – Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to […]
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Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June…
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLetters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement. Yesterday, the police [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Michel Butor/Dan Graham – Conversation
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOne day I went to interview Dan Graham about the legendary John Daniels Gallery in New York, which he ran from 1964 to ’65. Right after I arrived, Dan started […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Robert Gluck – Communal Nude
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince cofounding San Francisco’s influential New Narrative circle in 1979, Robert Glück has been one of America’s finest prose stylists of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin Material
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAdapted from the lecture she delivered at the Institut für Kunstkritik, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth’s essay explores the dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
John Douglas Millar – Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Douglas Millar’s Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature is a significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Ken Hollings – Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Di…
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon human culture. The Bright Labyrinth is a subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon [...]
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Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black…
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe life of an unexpected revolutionary with the Black Panthers in Algiers Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Agnes Martin: Night Sea (Afterall Books / One Work)
$9.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAgnes Martin’s Night Sea (1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated study, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Moondog – Moondog
$11.00 | CD, CD Add to cartThe first Moondog album, also known as Snaketime Series.
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Morton Feldman – Rothko Chapel / For Frank O’Hara
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartIf you could actually hear an abstract expressionist painting, it would probably sound a lot like the work of Morton Feldman. And that’s no accident: Feldman hung out in ‘50s […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their [...]
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Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling [...]
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Lol Tolhurst – Goth: A History
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFollowing his memoir Cured, a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture, by co-founder of The Cure, Lol Tolhurst GOTH is an […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk -
Gertrude Stein – Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein’s most enrapturing and essential short writings–a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Bénédicte Savoy – Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Po…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: E…
$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 Nursery [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction