[Reader-list] Massive Sale on Books from Autonomedia

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

The Brooklyn based radical publisher Autonomedia (who is the US
distributor of the Sarai reader) is having a massive sale to raise some
funds for some new projects. There are lots of great titles on the
Zapatistas, anarchism, pirates, heretical Islam, radicals arts and media,
and titles by people like Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson, the Midnight
Notes Collectives, and David Watson. So here’s a chance to snap them up
for a lot less than they would usually cost.


**Please Forward Widely**

Massive Sale on Books from Autonomedia

This is just a short note to alert you to a huge sale we're having through
the end of the month at the Autonomedia (online) warehouse. Nearly every
Autonomedia title is discounted from 20-70%, in an effort to clear some
stock off the shelves as well as generate some cash to pay the printers
for our upcoming season of new titles. There are many, many hidden gems in
our warehouse, and we're eager to use this sale to move them into your
hands. Some examples:

“This World We Must Leave,” a collection of essays from the challenging
ultra-leftist French/Italian writer Jacques Camatte, for less than $5:
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=495

“An Existing Better World,” a memoir of the Bread and Puppet Theater by
George Dennison, a radical educator and long-term comrade of the ensemble,
for $7.
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=55

“The Anarchists,” by John Henry Mackay, a great novel set in Victorian
London at the time of the Haymarket riots. This book was originally
published in 1891, and reissued by Autonomedia just over a century later,
and it's under-read, to say the least. It's great! And we've got it on
sale for $6 and change!
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&cPath=71&products_id=7

And there are many more. Go to
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7 for a
full list of Autonomedia books, and please consider picking up  something
you haven't heard of, and maybe another copy of a favorite book as a gift,
or a charged object to be left in a public place...

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Some new books you'll find in the bookstore:

* The brand new issue of Cometbus mysteriously showed up in our warehouse,
stinking of newsprint and old beer. This issue includes interviews with
members of TV on the Radio, Low, Neurosis, The Evens, Casual Dots, and
more, as well as bunch of new stories, a NYC Used Bookstore report, and a
26-page mini-book bound in the same covers. Your $2 copy awaits at
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=496

* Walter Benjamin, “On Hashish.” Benjamin was no stranger to the hash
pipe, and documented his experiments with hashish between 1927 and 1934,
investigating what he called “profane illumination.” At issue here, as
everywhere in Benjamin's work, is a new way of seeing, a new connection to
the ordinary world. Under the influence of hashish, as time and space
become inseparable, experiences become subtly stratified and resonant: we
inhabit more than one plane in time. What Benjamin, in his contemporaneous
study of Surrealism, calls “image space” comes vividly to life in this
philosophical immersion in the sensuous. Yowza.
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=487

* Max Cafard, “The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto and Other Writings.”
Regarding this inspiring and rollicking brew of surrealism, anarchism,
Chinese philosophy and Nietzschean trouble-making, Andrei Codrescu wrote
the following: “[H]is insurgent writing gave our readers the sudden
frisson that they were in the presence of something new. One never forgets
that frisson when first encountering Nietzsche, Cioran, Derrida, or
Deleuze... The frisson is renewed by each encounter, but the original
feeling of the discovery is unequalled. This was precisely my epiphany on
encountering Max Cafard's manifesto: I am in a new place.” Only $12, and
available at
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=492

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Please also make the Interactivist Info Exchange a regular part of your
network browse. Some recent stories posted (at
http://info.interactivist.net) include

A powerful post-ceasefire account of life in Lebanon
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/236213

A proposal to adopt the anniversary of the 2003 Blackout as an Unofficial
Popular Holiday
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/0553217

A very interesting call for submissions on the topic of anarchist
propaganda http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/0626217

A provocative essay analyzing how the tactics of the Israeli Defense
Forces have been influenced by the writings of Guy Debord and Deleuze and
Guattari
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/0626217

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