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Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOn an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Russell Hoban – Fremder
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOn 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half […]
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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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Georges Bataille – L’Abbe C
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartL’Abbé C is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert [...]
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Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSet against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city […]
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Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me
$15.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart“There’s not a lot of pretense to the songs of Joanna Sternberg. The New Yorker is about as open and vulnerable as a singer/songwriter gets, relating their fears, anxieties, and […]
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Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille’s Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim [...]
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Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Mem…
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTHE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges’ major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, ‘variations on favourite themes… combining a plain and at times […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Paul Celan – Selected Poems
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOne of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Clarice Lispector – The Passion According to G.H
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOne of Elena Ferrante’s Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white ‘as in an insane […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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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The Penguin Book of Oulipo : Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure…
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBrought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of ‘Oulipo’ writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 [...]
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Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. […]
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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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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille’s revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, [...]
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Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
$7.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn his first book of short fiction–a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables–Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 -
Rebekah Rutkoff – The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fiction…
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSharp, acerbic, and often humorous, Rebekah Rutkoff’s writings about contemporary culture reflect the present in ways reminiscent of Renata Adler’s and Joan Didion’s writings [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Elliott Sharp – IrRational Music
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. For over five decades, Elliott […]
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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 […]
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Victor Segalen – In a Sound World
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWorks by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto. Victor Segalen (1878–1919) had one of France’s most curious [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 [...]
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Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThese essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point […]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction