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  • Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
    Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
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    Collaborators 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
    The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
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    There was something uncanny about Charlie Chaplin. His fellow actors spoke of him as inhuman—automaton-like. His stiff, comic movements could be viewed as an attempt to parody the newly developed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
    Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
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    During 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
    Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
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    For 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
    A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
    Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
    Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
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    Volume 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
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    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
    Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
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    These 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
    Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
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    Jazz 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
  • Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
    Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
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    Writers 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
    Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
    Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
    Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
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    Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
    Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
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    By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Alaap is Amit Chaudhuri’s singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Non-Fiction
  • Douglas A Martin – Acker
    Douglas A Martin – Acker
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    Martin’s lyric essay, written through Kathy Acker’s evocative prose, public statements, and private archives, follows Acker through New York’s downtown St. Mark’s Poetry Project scene, Black [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
    Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
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    Just 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annette Michelson – On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film
    Annette Michelson – On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film
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    The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear
    The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear
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    Here is the first book in English about Japan’s modern master of fear and horror. The book traces Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s humble beginning in the pink film industry through his evolution […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
    Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
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    Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci
    Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci
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    Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947–1959
    Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947–1959
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    Welcome to Mars is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
    Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
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    Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
    Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
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    Stan Brakhage’s body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
    NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
    Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
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    Brilliantly 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
    Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
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    Brazilian 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
    David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
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    “Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
    Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
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    A 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.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
    William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
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    William T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle
    Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle
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    A 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
  • Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
    Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
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    A popular misconception of the controversial Rorschach test, which requires subjects to interpret a series of ten inkblots, is that there are no wrong answers. For professional psychologists, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
    Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
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    Multi-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
    Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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    Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
    Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
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    “For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the city’s identity, even as judgments of its value have varied. It has […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
    Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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    “The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
    Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
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    “Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
    Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
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    “It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
    Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
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    “Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America is a fresh and engaging study of “last things” in Don DeLillo’s works-things like death, mourning, and the decline [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
    Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
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    “Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
    An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
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    “Paul Bowles’s seductive, terrifying, exquisitely detached fictions have inspired writers and iconoclasts from the Beats to the present day. In this brilliant and definitive [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
    Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
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    “Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
    Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
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    “Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
    Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
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    “In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
    Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
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    “The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
    Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
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    “In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
    Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
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    “This publication explores the complex relationship between American art and early film. Depicting turn-of-the-century photographs, film stills, posters, prints and paintings, the struggle [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
    Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
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    “Among German painter Gerhard Richter’s best-known works are his large-scale paintings based on—and sometimes applied directly to—photographs. A transplant to West Germany mere months [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
    Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
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    “Excellent reference work to finding specific topics within the vast range of the writings of Karl Rahner. Using this book in tandem with the authors earlier Abstracts of Karl Rahners […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction