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Against
Civilization John Zerzan (Ed) |
The
longawaited newly expanded addition of the classic Anthology of anti-tech, anti-civilisation writings. Includes writings by Kirkpatrick Sale, Chellis Glendinning, Barbra Mor, Marsall Sahlins, and more. |
£8.00 |
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Against
His-Story, Against Leviathan! |
A monumentally
imaginative recounting of the origins and development of civilization, conceived as the systematic self-enslavement and self-alienation of human communities. One of the most significant and influential anarchic texts of the last few decades. Highly recommended. |
£5 |
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Against
the Megamachine |
Revised collection of Watson's essays from Fifth Estate magazine. | £9.00 |
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Agents of
Repression |
Essential guide to the US state’s COINTEL PRO attempts at eliminating both the Black Panthers and American Indian Movement. Important lessons for our movements today. | £15.00 |
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Anarchy
After Leftism |
A vitriolic response to Murray Bookchin’s Stalin-like attack on what he perceives as ‘lifestyle anarchism’. An attempt to move ‘anarchy’ towards a ‘post left anarchy’. | £5 |
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Anarchy
in the UK |
The story of the Angry Brigade, active in the ‘70s throughout the UK. | £5 |
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Anything
Can Happen |
Anthology of important essays. | £3.50 |
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Archeology
of Violence |
Tribal societies practice systematic violence in order to prevent the rise in their midst of this "cold monster": the state. In the same way, tribal chiefs are not all-powerful; to the contrary, they are rendered weak in order to remain dependent on the community. | £6 |
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Armed Struggle
In Italy |
A chronology of the myriad of autonomous armed actions carried out between 1976-78. | £2 |
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Beneath
the Paving Stones |
Provides both an introduction to the ideas of the Situs and a provocatively seductive invitation to a life of freedom & revolt which prefigures many of the themes of today's protestors. | £7 |
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Beyond Bookchin |
Critique of Murray Bookchin’s ideas on Social Ecology, from long time Fifth Estate contributor. | £5 |
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Beyond Geography:
The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness |
Offers a jarring view of European separation from nature and the resultant devastation on expansion into the New World. | £15 |
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Black Mask & Up Against The Wall Motherfucker | The incomplete works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group. This grew out of the NY Surrealist Group and the American Anarchist Group, turning eventually into UATWM. Among other things, the Motherfuckers instigated riots, "assassinated" poet Kenneth Koch (using blanks), forced their way into The Pentagon during a protest in 1968, and seized control of the Fillmore East (forcing owner Bill Graham to have weekly free concerts). The Motherfuckers also contributed to New York City's counterculture by setting up crash pads, serving free food, starting a free store, and helping radicals connect with doctors and lawyers. | £6 |
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(The) Bonnot
Gang |
Story of the famous French anarchist bank robbers and the ‘Illegalist’ milieu they were part of. The first people to use a getaway car! | £5 |
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Caliban
and the Witch |
Capitalism was a counter-revolution requiring the destruction of commons and community. A destruction that rested on war against women. | £6 |
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Cavalier
History of Surrealism |
“Surrealism: the last dream of a foundering culture” or not? A down-and-dirty survey of the Surrealist movement written under a pseudonym in 1970 by leading Situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem. | £5.50 |
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(The) Continuing
Appeal of Nationalism |
Essential insight and critique of Nationalism . | £1.50 |
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Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Survive By Jared Diamond |
In Collapse, Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were self-induced. | £7 |
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Collection
of Desires |
A welcome new edition of four of Vaneigem's shorter works, largely unavailable in English. In this rather fine collection, you'll find the 'Book Of Pleasures', 'From Wildcat Strike To Total Self-Management', 'Terrorism Or Revolution', and 'A Warning To Students Of All Ages'. | £6 |
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Complete
Cinematic Works |
Ken Knabb's translation of Debord's Complete Cinematic Works accompanies the long-awaited English versions of these film.The scripts are illustrated with 62 stills, and Debord's own annotations help elucidate the subtleties of these astonishing works, which are like nothing else in cinema history. | £9 |
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(The) Consul:
Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time
Ralph Rumney, Malcom Imrie (Translator) |
Ralph Rumney, an English painter, was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. His membership didn't last long – Guy Debord politely excluded him after less than a year, accusing him (wrongly) of failing to complete a projected psychogeography of Venice – but his association with radical movements in art and politics has never ended. H is travelling companions have included Félix Guattari and E. P. Thompson. All are recalled in the interviews here, which trace an extraordinary career dedicated to revolt and provide a passionate account of a work in progress by a man who has never accepted the division between art and life. | £7 |
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Contributions
to the Revolutionary Struggle |
Post Situationist text from Vaneigem writing under the pseudonym Ratgeb. | £1 |
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Cracking
the Movement |
Excellent book on the squatting movement in the Netherlands | £5.50 |
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A Crime Called
Freedom: Writings of Os Cangaceiros Vol. I Translated by Wolfi Landstreicher |
Os Cangaceiros was a group of delinquents caught up in the spirit of the French insurrection of 1968 who refused to let that spirit die. With nothing but contempt for the self-sacrificial ideology practiced by “specialists in armed struggle”, this uncontrollable band of social rebels wreaked havoc on the French state — attacking infrastructures of oppression, supporting popular revolts, stealing and releasing secret blueprints for high-tech prisons, raiding the offices of corporate collaborators, and creating their lives in complete opposition to the world based on work. This volume, translated by Wolfi Landstreicher, is the first substantial collection of the writings of Os Cangaceiros in English. |
£3 |
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Culture
of Make Believe |
Eye-opening exploration
of civilization’s dark heart. Details American racism from the slave-trade and genocide to the present. Linking brutality to a culture of abstraction that reduces everything to simply elements in a system. |
£15 |
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(The) Devils
Anarchy |
Examines 17th-century Dutch pirate histories to show the continuity of a shared pirate culture. Painting a salty picture of the excesses, contradictions, and liberatory joys of pirate life. | £5 |
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Direct Action |
Excellent story of the eco-anarchist guerrilla group ‘Direct Action’ in Canada, written by a member of the group after release from prison. | £10 |
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Dynamite
- A Century of Class Struggle in America |
The story of the brutal exploitation, massacres and judicial murders that were directed against workers during America's industrial beginnings. But also the story of how they fought back, first with peaceful strikes, then dynamite. | £4 |
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Ecocide: a
short history of the mass extinction of species By Franz J. Broswimmer |
Our society has reduced nature to an assortment of exploitable resources. Ecocide is a historical odyssey, carrying the reader from the environmental impact of pre-modern tribal societies through to the utter destructiveness of our own impoverished era. Where we find ourselves in the midst of the fastest mass extinction of species in the history of our planet, and on the brink of environmental catastrophe. A well researched and informative book that should be read, though how the author suddenly jumps to such a liberal conclusion remains a mystery. |
£15 |
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(The) Ego
and it's Own |
In the place of moral imperatives, he postulates the will of the sovereign egoist who lives untrammelled by convention or authority. Classic individualist text. | £7 |
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Elements
of Refusal |
Second edition of this extremely important work with a new preface by Zerzan. This is essential reading. | £9 |
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Endgame: The
Problem of Civilization v. 1 Derrick Jensen |
"Endgame" builds on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises: for example, "The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of any economic system" and "The mass of civilized people will never be on our side". Jensen invites readers to imagine a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself. | £11 |
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Endgame: Resistance
v. 2 Derrick Jensen |
Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement’s deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution. | £11 |
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Enrages
and Situationist in the Occupation Movement |
Great account of Paris ’68 and the role of the Situationists, et al within the uprising, with illustrations. | £5 |
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Exterminate
All the Brutes Sven Lindqvist |
Taking its title from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", this study traces Europe's dark history in Africa. It is written both in the form of a travel diary and as a historical examination of European imperialism and rascism over the past two centuries. | £6 |
Feral revolution |
An interesting collection of writings with an intro by Alfredo M. Bonanno. | £2.50 | |
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Fire and
Ice |
Laurel and Skunkly offer their unique anti-civilization perspectives with stories of trauma and loss, tales of perseverance and journey, and their deeply personal insights. | £4.50 |
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Fire to
the Powder Keg: |
Investigates the social nature of the guerrilla struggle against both the forces of Western capital and the tragic conditions imposed on the Iraqi population through years of bombings, embargoes and repression. | £3 |
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(The) Forest
People |
The classic study of the pygmies of the Ituri forest in north-east Zaire, conveying their intense love for their forest world, and ‘their belief that it is better and kinder than the outside world that threatens to destroy it’. | £10 |
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Four Arguments
for the Elimination of Television |
Depicts television as a technological monster, a menace to the psychology of the individual and to the environment, and an instrument of unprecedented autocratic power. | £7 |
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From Riot
to Insurrection |
An analysis for an anarchist perspective against post-industrial capitalism. | £1 |
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Future Primitive |
Includes The Nihilist’s Dictionary, the Catastrophe of Postmodernism, Mass Psychology of Misery and much more. | £4.50 |
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The Garden
of Peculiarities |
Jesús Sepúlveda is a Chilean green anarchist with roots in Spain, Italy and Eugene, Oregon. This important work is both critical and inspirational, a human- and plant-centered antidote to the globalist technocracy. | £6 |
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A General Theory
of Magic Marcel Mauss |
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(The) Gift |
Published in 1924, The Gift is a comparative essay on gift-giving and exchange in "primitive" societies. Gift-giving is thus steeped in morality, and by giving, receiving and returning gifts, a moral bond between the persons exchanging gifts. | £7 |
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Gone to
Croatan |
“America” was founded as a land of drop-outs. Almost at once it began to produce its own crop of dissidents - visionaries, utopians, white and black “Indians”, sailors and buccaneers, tax rebels, angry women, crank reformers. Now here they are again, speaking through radical historians and in the present in their own voices, claiming to have been the real “America” all along. | £8 |
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Guns, Germs
and Steel |
A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. | £8 |
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Having Little,
Being Much |
Biography of the late Fredy Perlman, author of the landmark ‘Against His-story, Against Leviathan'. | £4 |
How Deep
is Deep Ecology? |
Critique of deep ecology from Fifth Estate’s David Watson, writing under this pseudonym | £4 (Out of Stock) |
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How it all
Began: the Personal Account of a West German urba Guerilla |
The personal testimony
of a young working class man, who, in the late 60s and early 70s, was a
member of the anarchist June 2nd Movement urban guerrilla organization in
West Berlin. An incredible story, not only of life underground in a 'terrorist'
organization, but of the 60s, the 'movement' and radical counterculture in Berlin. |
£8.50 |
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Igniting a
Revolution - Voices in Defense of the Earth Steven Best & Anthony J. Nocella (Eds) |
Igniting a Revolution offers a fascinating and compelling look at the emerging movement of revolutionary environmentalism. Includes essays by Marilyn Buck, Robert Jensen, John Zerzan, Ashanti Alston, Jeffrey "Free" Luers, Derrick Jensen, Ann Hansen, and a preface by Bron Taylor. | £10 |
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In Search
of the Primitive |
Diamond opens by
arguing that "Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression
at home." The book continues an extraordinary exploration of the indigenous peoples with whom Diamond worked, and explores the differences between, for example, indigenous and civilized moralities. |
£17 |
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In the Absence
of the Sacred |
Originally conceived as two books, one on the detrimental effects of technology, the other on the contemporary plight of indigenous people worldwide. Mander realised the two are inextricably linked and the result is an insightful and accessible work. | £10 |
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King Mob
Echo |
King Mob were the English section of the Situationist International. These are re-prints from their paper, ‘King Mob Echo’. | £4.50 |
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(A) Language
Older than Words |
Brilliant and disturbing look at human nature. Not only what is so wrong but also a good attempt to show how we can break out of our ‘landscape of loss’ and relearn from the earth. | £9 |
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Leaving
the Twentieth Century |
The incomplete works of the Situationist International. Preface by Richard 'Bonnot Gang' Parry. | £7 |
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Letters
of Insurgents |
Examines insurgence and recuperation through the stories of divided friends either side of the iron curtain. It allows Perlman to develop a vision of contemporary anarchic praxis. Incredible and believable work of fiction. This is highly recommended. | £6 |
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(The) London
Hanged |
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging served the purpose of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and new forms of private property. | £9 |
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Listening
to the Land |
Interviews with
Jensens influences including Dave Foreman, Ward Churchill and Christopher Maines, exploring issues of radical ecology. |
£10 |
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(The) Many
Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic |
A decade of research into the seventeenth and eighteenth century unearths ideas and stories about liberty, democracy and freedom that terrified the ruling classes of the time. Linebaugh and Rediker show how the motley crew had their own versions of democracy. The rebellions they led were the result of unlikely and often multiracial collaborations. And although they were eventually suppressed, their ideas about liberty and freedom were used by the founders of modern revolutions. | £10 |
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The Movement
of the Free Spirit |
This book examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s.Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements such as the Cathars and Joachimite millenarians, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange. Vaneigem is particularly interested in the radical opposition presented by these movements to the imperatives of an emerging market-based economy, and he evokes crucial historical parallels with the antisystemic rebellions of the 1960s. | £10 |
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My Name
is Chellis, and I'm in Recovery From Western Civilization |
You and I are not people who live in communion with the earth," Glendinning begins. "We exist instead dislocated from our roots by the psychological, philosophical, and technological constructions of our civilization, and this alienation leads to our suffering: massive suffering for each and every one of us, and mass suffering throughout our society." | £15 |
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Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity | Why has psychology had so little to say about the destruction of nature; and what sort of psychological understanding might help us to regenerate our relation to the natural world? In this book, David Kidner outlines a radically new form of social science that moves beyond the sterile separations between sociology, psychology, anthropology, and politics, and illustrates the sort of understanding that could successfully regenerate our relation to the nonhuman world. | £15 |
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Pacifism
as Pathology |
Controversial text in which Churchill argues that activists should support any and all tactics to stop the tyranny of the state. | £5 |
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Panegyric
Volumes 1 & 2 |
Panegyric is Debord’s audacious autobiography and here for the first time in English is the second, beautifully illustrated volume published together with the spare and classical text of the first. | £12 |
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Poland 1980-1982 |
Class struggle and the crisis of capital in Poland...excellent. | £4 |
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The Realization
and Suppression of the Situationist International |
An annotated bibliography 1972 - 1992. | £7 |
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The Real Split
in the International: Situationist International By Guy Debord |
First published in 1972, this new translation by John McHale is the first officially authorized in English. It sees Debord not only evaluate the Situationist International as a whole, but also signal the end of it. For him, it had become clear that the Situationist's success had produced - within it's own ranks as well as outside them - a host of fans and 'onlookers' who amounted to little more than consumers... | £8 |
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Rebels Against
the Future |
Excellent history of the Luddites. | £7 |
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(The) Revolution
of Everyday Life |
Classic Situationist text, new edition from Rebel Press. | £6 |
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Running
On Emptiness |
An anthology of Zerzan’s most recent writings. The title essay of which we feel complements his earlier explorations of ‘Origins’ in ‘Elements of Refusal’ by studying the rise of symbolic thought. | £8 |
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Sabate |
This book tells of the life, the action and the death of anarchist guerilla Francisco Sabate in the struggle against Franco’s dictatorship until he was killed in 1960. It shows the many ways it is possible to strike the enemy, no matter what form, rendering it of great validity still today. An exciting read. | £4 |
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Seizure
of State Power |
Taken from the "Manual for Revolutionary Leaders" (1972, Perlman as Michael Velli, a pseudonym meant to recall Machiavelli). In the guise of presenting revolutionary leaders with advice on how to gain power, this book presents a number of scenarios in semi-fictional form showing how to prevent authoritarians from taking power in a revolutionary situation. One section, The Seizure of State Power, has been reprinted separately. | £3.50 |
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Situationist
International Anthology Ken Knabb (Editor) |
The essential sourcebook for anyone wanting to pursue the SI. A vast compendium of writings from all their major works, books, journals, leaflets, etc. All the stars are here, and much more. Much of this has been translated into English for the first time. | £10 |
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Society
Against the State |
In this landmark
text in anthropology, Clastres offers examples of South American Indian
groups that, though without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent
and complex. In so doing, he refutes the usual negative definition of tribal
society and poses its order as a radical critique of our own Western State
power. |
£8 |
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The Society
of the Spectacle |
New edition, new translation of the classic situ text. | £5 |
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Strangely
Like War |
With Strangely Like War, Jensen and Draffan, with a foreword from renowned ecologist Vandana Shiva, have produced a document that is essential reading for anybody even faintly interested in the fast-approaching ecological collapse of this planet, even more so for anybody interested in stopping this collapse. | £8 |
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(The) Story
of Tatiana |
The life of the young Russian revolutionary Tatiana Leontiev before and after 1906, when she assassinated the man she believed was a Tsarist minister. | £6 |
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(The) Strait |
Unfinished at the time of Perlman’s death in 1985, The Strait provides a panoramic view of Amerindian resistance to invasion and genocide from mythical times to the present day | £5 |
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Stone Age
Economics |
Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most influential and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the original affluent society. | £15 |
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Strange
Victories |
Analysis of the anti-nuclear movement in the US and Europe | £1.50 |
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The Subversion
of Politics George Katsiaficas |
Katsiaficas presents the protagonists of social revolt—Italian feminists, squatters, disarmament and anti-nuclear activists, punk rockers, and anti-fascist street fighters—in a compelling and sympathetic light. At the same time, he offers a work of great critical depth, drawing from these political practices a new theory of freedom and autonomy that redefines the parameters of the political itself. |
£9 |
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Test Card
F |
A graphic demolition
derby. Using savage image/text cut and paste this book explodes all previous
media theories and riots through the Global Village, looting the ideological
supermarkets of all its products.
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£3 |
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This World
We Must Leave - And Other Essays |
A collection of
essays from this important but much neglected writer. He developed the critique of political organisations being ‘gangs’ through the essay ‘On Organisation’. |
£5 |
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(The) Tribe:
Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension |
Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint- Germain-des-Prés as a member of the legendary Lettrist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular vie de bohme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogues' gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of 'the tribe' and a trove of Lettrist leaflets and posters. A rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists flocking to Saint-Germain for a glimpse of Sartre and Co. | £8 |
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Villains
of All Nations: Atlantic Pirate in the Golden Age |
A people’s history of piracy—a history that emphasizes how common seamen who turned pirate built for themselves a multicultural, democratic and egalitarian society. | £15 |
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Walking
on Water |
"Jensen takes aim at an educational system that is based on power and seeks to turn students into passive acceptors of mindless, boring tasks who silently submit to illegitimate authority - a 'nation of slaves' and clock-watchers. As a writing teacher, Jensen's lessons convey both the practicalities of learning how to write as well as the life lessons so necessary to finding one's true creative self." (taken from blurb) |
£10 |
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Welcome
to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control |
Brilliant book about the encroachment of new technologies of control. | £9? |
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Without
a Glimmer of Remorse |
Dramatisation of the life of Jules Bonnot, worker, soldier, driver, robber and anarchist. | £7 |
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Worker-Student
Action Committees |
Perlman's experiences with the action committees set up during the Paris 68 revolt. | £2 |
Workers
Autonomy |
What worker's autonomy means and its implications. | £1.50 | |
