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Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #38; Fall 1993
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ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REVIEW
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-includes Anarchist Press Review, reviews of The Final Empire,
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Debord's In Girum, & Debord's Comments by John Zerzan, reviews of
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Plant's Gesture, Hakim Bey's T.A.Z., On An(archy) and
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Schizoanalysis, & Films of Guy Debord by Patrick Frank, review of
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Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies by Allan Antiff and Alternative
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Press Books.
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Anarchist Press Review
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Compiled by Jason McQuinn & Bob White
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THE POOR, THE BAD AND THE ANGRY #1/undated (3288 21st St. #31,
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San Francisco, CA. 94110) is an uncompromising new "anti-state
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communist" journal with the straight-away subtitle, "A Magazine
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for Power-Hungry Proletarians." This first issue announces in no
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uncertain terms where the production group stands - against
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reformist leftism, national liberation movements and unions - and
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what it promotes - the destruction of commodity relations and the
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emergence of authentic human community." Contents include
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accounts of "Some actions we've taken" (leafleting and
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postering), another account of "L.A. '92: The context of a
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proletarian uprising," and more information on "The unknown
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insurrection: The armed uprising and workers' councils in Iraq,
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1991." This magazine is not for the faint-of-heart reformist set.
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Well recommended, despite the heavy doses of Marxist rhetoric
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which, unfortunately, come as a package deal along with the more
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clearsighted, anarchic spirit. Send a contribution for a sample
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copy.
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SHIT HAPPY #3/undated (Adam Bregman, 11338 Joffre St., L.A., CA.
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90049) is another incredibly lively, thoughtful & enjoyable issue
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of this 28-page zine which shouldn't be missed! This time there
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are articles including "I ran for mayor of L.A." (as one of the
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24 "official" candidates on the ballot), a very personal story of
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"Falling in love and watching it fall to pieces," an account of
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"The Cacophony Society" (participants in bizarre adventures in
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the L.A. area), and a hilarious piece titled "The clowns"
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(featuring "Asswipe the Clown"). The best issue yet of this
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excellent zine! Send $2 for a copy.
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FIFTH ESTATE #342/Summer '93 (4632 Second Ave., Detroit, MI.
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48201) is a 24-page anti-civilization, anti-tech, anarcho-primi-
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tivist tabloid. This issue, featuring a colorful cover for the
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first time in years, includes an opening section of articles on
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"Queer anarchy," along with E.B. Maple's account of FE's unhappy
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acquisition of a computer for typesetting titled "The Fifth
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Estate enters the 20th century: We get a computer and hate it!"
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Also included is a denunciation of the bombing of Baghdad by
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Clinton this last June, a translation of Saral Sarkar's critical
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"Accommodating industrialism: A third world view of the West
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German ecological movement," and a pair of articles on drugs -
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Jack Straw's "Psychedelics & human consciousness: Has booze
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brought the blues?" and E.B. Maple's "Hemp to the rescue: Will
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marijuana save the world?" FE is always highly recommended.
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Subscriptions are quite cheap at $6.00/4 issues.
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SOCIAL ANARCHISM #18/1993 (2743 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, MD.
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21218) is a journal-sized, 96-page "Magazine of Current Anarchist
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Writing." This issue includes Howard Ehrlich on "Los Angeles,
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1992 - The lessons revisited," Tom Knoche's overview of anarchist
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community organizing titled "Organizing communities," Mark
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Leier's (unintentionally) farcical "Anarchism and
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existentialism," and Kingsley Widmer's penetrating analysis of
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"Eco-anarchism, unto primitivism." A selection of poems and book
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reviews (one of the stronger elements of this publication)
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complete this issue. Worthwhile picking up. Sample copies are
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$3.50; subscriptions are $10/2 years (4 issues).
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KICK IT OVER #31/June '93 (POB 5811, Stn. A, Toronto, Ontario
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M5W 1P2, Canada) is a 48-page magazine now published by a new
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collective. This issue includes William Alexander's case study of
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"The efficiency of community and the inefficiency of hierarchy,"
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several personal accounts of the war in ex-Yugoslavia, Ken Fisher
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on "Men's groups: Accountable to whom? for what?" and Gary Moffat
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on "Alternate societies: A brief survey of intentional community
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in European history." This is one of the more interesting issues
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in recent years. Sample copies are $3; subscriptions are $9/year
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(4 issues).
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BLACK EYE #11/Winter '92-93 (339 Lafayette St. #202, New York,
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NY. 10012) is the final 80-page issue of this irreverent, often
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interesting New York zine. This blockbuster issue includes Alex
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Trotter's long essay on "Decadence," Paul Simons' "Book and gun:
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A (rather disturbing) look at proto- and early fascist history
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and ideology," and an assessment of the current situation in
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South Africa by S. Thompson & N. Abraham. The cover price is $1.
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ALSO RECEIVED:
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RSVP #11 & #12/undated (Tad Davies, 821 Highview Ave., Manhattan
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Beach, CA. 90266) is a 52-page "co-op publication of writers and
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a publisher concerned about freedom issues of many different
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views," with a fair number of anarchists and anti-authoritarians
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involved. Issue #11 includes contributions from 24 different
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writers on a variety of subjects from technology to the nature of
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capitalism & socialism. Issue #12 focuses on the importance of
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Factsheet Five for the "freedom issues" milieu, including an
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account of FF history by original publisher Mike Gunderloy,
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excerpts from an interview with current FF publisher Seth
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Friedman, and Seth Friedman's own account of "the rescue of
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Factsheet Five." Both issues include special sections of
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reprinted articles on the theme of "Kops as Killers."
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Subscriptions are $16/year (8 issues + occasional bonus issues).
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THE MATCH! #88/Summer '93 (POB 3488, Tucson, AZ. 85722) is a 76-
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page journal published by Fred Woodworth, whose personality shows
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through on every page - he reminds me of an irritating,
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cantankerous, old uncle, overly set in his ways but whose
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contentious opinions can nevertheless often be fun to listen in
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on. In this issue he announces that he will no longer print
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reviews of books bearing ISBN numbers (which will undoubtedly
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severely limit the number of new books reviewed in the future),
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though he does `copyright' his writing. Also in this issue is
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more criticism of "police statism," a highly amusing "Babble
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study department" (quoting from a couple chapters of the
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Christian Bible), continuing serializations of Kent Winslow's
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"Landmarks in the desert" and Iris Lane's "The two sisters,"
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along with a rather diminutive "World's largest letters column."
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Subscriptions are still $10/4 issues (irregular). Freedom;
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Anarchist fortnightly Vol.54,#17/Aug.21,'93 (84b Whitechapel High
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Street, London E1 7QX, England) is a long-running 8-page tabloid
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of news and comment. This issue includes pieces on "Media
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distortion and the left," an interview with Michael Warchawski
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(founder of the Centre for Alternative Information) on
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"Israel/Palestine," and Colin Ward's reinterpretation of The
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as "Yet another anarchist
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classic." Subscriptions are =9C18.00/year (24 issues).
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TROTWATCH #1/Summer '92 (c/o Box NDF, 72 Radford Road, Hyson
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Green, Nottingham, England) is an amusing attempt at "an
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anarchist commentary on the life of the [British] left," from "a
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clear libertarian communist/anarchist perspective." This first
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issue contains a run down of the maneuverings of many of the
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endless trot sects up to and after last year's British Labour
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Party defeat. Should be a bucket of laughs for ex-trots, but it's
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a bit hard to follow for those never exposed to this socialist
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perversion! Copies are $3; exchanges are encouraged with
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anarchist periodicals.
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RED AND BLACK #23//Winter '93 (POB 12, Quaama, N.S.W. 2550, Aus-
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tralia) is a small-format, 48-page journal. This issue includes
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W. Bradley's "The new political context" (an analysis and
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critique of liberalism), R. Kostelanetz's amusing account of his
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experience in "Teaching & the `non-standard' writer," and T.
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Doyle's fairly correct (but at times tedious) account of "Dissent
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and the environment: A defence of critique within social
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movements" (based on his own experience in criticizing mainstream
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bureaucratic environmentalism). Subscriptions are $6/year (2
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issues).
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NO FUTURE unnumbered/undated (Anthony Melder, 21a Warley Hill,
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Brentwood, Essex CM14 5HR, England) is an unpaginated zine
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exploring the topography of contemporary alienation Slogans like
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"Don't be happy - just worry" and "I am not a target market" line
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the tops and bottoms of each page. Check this out. Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.
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DEEP THREAT #4/undated (3018 J St. #140, Sacramento, CA. 95816)
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is the playful 16-page tabloid successor to Alphabet Threat,
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Bicycle Threat and Castration Threat. Contributions include
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pieces like "Dandruff threat; Liberating my psoriasis," and
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"Divorce threat." Send a couple stamps or a donation for a sample
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copy. Libertarian Labor Review #15/Summer '93 (POB 762,
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Cortland, NY. 13045) is a 42-page magazine of "Anarchosyndicalist
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Ideas and Discussion." This issue includes articles on "Britain's
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Direct Action Movement" (the syndicalist organization, that is),
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and Jon Bekken's "Reforming the Teamsters." Subscriptions are
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$12/4 issues (2 years).
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THE SHADOW #28/Dec.'92 & #29/June '93 (POB 20298, New York, NY.
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10009) is a 24-page tabloid covering alternative scenes on the
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Lower East Side in New York, including updates on the Tompkins
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Square Park struggle, and the squatting scene. This paper is a
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model of the kind of "cop watching" coverage every city should
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have. Subscriptions are $10/year (? issues).
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ALARM #4/Autumn, #5/Winter '92 & #6/Spring (POB 804, Burlington,
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VT. 05402) is a 24-page "Voice of Northeast Earth First!" Each
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issue includes updates on Earth First! struggles, including those
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aimed at Mt. Graham, the Shawnee National Forest, and many
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others. Issue #6 includes "A Biodiversity Liberation Front
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communique to the EF! movement" detailing why it is unable to
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work with the Earth First! journal. Subscriptions are $10/year.
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MOTHER ANARCHY #3/July '93 (Laure Akai, PO Box 500, Moscow
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107061, Russia) is an 18-page, partly English-language, zine
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dealing with current problems faced by Russian anarchists. This
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issue includes Ivan Papugal's short (and somewhat misleadingly
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titled) "Forgotten Russian situationists," Laure A.'s amusing "A
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date with Boris Kagarlitsky," "An interview with Grisha, gay
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radical," and other contributions in Russian and Esperanto. No
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price listed; send a donation for printing and postage.
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WIND CHILL FACTOR #9/July '93 (POB 81961, Chicago, IL. 60681)
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Those folks at Wind Chill sure know how to pack a lot of info in
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their 40 page zine. Issue #9 has an article on the Red Army
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Faction destroying a newly built prison in Weiterstadt, Germany,
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an entertaining article on sex and birth control, thoughts of a
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Chicago taxi cab driver entitled "Travellin," an interesting dis-
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cussion on hacking and phreaking, an article on Randolph Street
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Gallery holding a graffiti discussion/party/festival, and a
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3-page Anarchist Black Cross spread, not to mention anarchist
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news, letters, general mayhem, and much more. $1 for a copy.
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PROFANE EXISTENCE #19-20/Summer '93 (POB 8722, Minneapolis, MN.
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55408) is a 48-page double issue of this anarcho-punk tabloid.
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This issue features the production collective's "Anarchy, punk
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and utopia," lots of anarchist news, letters , columns and
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reviews, plus a new "On Gogol Blvd" section and a band interview
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with Dog Faced Hermans. Sample copies are $3 postpaid.
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OTHER PERIODICALS RECEIVED:
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IKON #1/Nov.'88 thru #11/May '93 (Geoffrey Gilmore, 444 Rose
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Lane, Apt.106, Lexington, KY. 40508) is an unpaginated zine
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subtitled "An Anti-Statist Publication" in its latest issue,
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containing poetry, essays and humor. Send a contribution for a
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sample copy.
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ANARCHIST AGE MONTHLY REVIEW #30/June & #32/Aug.'93 (Mutual Aid,
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POB 20, Parkville 3052, Melbourne, Australia) is a 40-page
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newsletter consisting of photocopied reprints from other sources,
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along with reprints of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review. Subscrip-
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tions are $18/6 issues.
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THE STATE ADVERSARY #21/Dec.'92 (AAA, POB 78-104, Grey Lynn,
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Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand) is a 12-page newsletter with lots
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of local & international news shorts, along with commentary &
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letters. This issue includes articles on "Big Mountain: The
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Columbus legacy continues," and "Hemp for the future." Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.
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KASPAHRASTER #7/July '93 (POB 8831, Portland, OR. 97207) is an
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attractive 32-page zine of poetry, comment, computer mail, dreams
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and graphics. This issue includes a short account of the
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Anarchist Unconvention in Portland. Send $2 cash for a sample.=20
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NON SERVIAM #2/June & #3/July-Aug.'93 (POB 70551, Richmond, VA.
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23255) is an unpaginated zine "dedicated to all (re)oppressed
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people (i.e. all-of-us)." The cover of issue #2 proclaims "We'll
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never learn"; issue #3 includes some anti-Christian material.
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Sample copies are $1; subscriptions are $15/year (13 issues).=20
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TAKING LIBERTIES #7, 8, 9, 10/undated (POB 446, Sheffield, South
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Yorkshire, UK) is the 10-12 page Newsletter of the Anarchist
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Black Cross. #7 includes articles on strip searching, women in
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prison, special hospitals, poll tax prisoners, and police racism.
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Issue #10 includes articles on Christine Sawbridge, legal aid,
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criminalization of the working class. All contain news and
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information on political prisoners. Send a couple bucks for a
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sample issue.
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HAG #3/undated (c/o Orissa Spire, #D-56 1720 Douglas St.,
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Victoria B.C., Canada. V8W 2G7) is an enjoyable zine put out
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irregularly by an anarcho/fem collective from Canada. This issue
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includes "News for yews," "Looking for the revolution in my
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pants," "Babes in space," "The ecology movement: Becoming
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revolutionary," "Nice Jewish girls," and "Who bombed Judi Bari?"
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Also info on herbs, menstruation, poetry, letters, reviews,
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comics, and much more. Worth checking out. $2.50 for sample
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copies.
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BUTCHER SHOP #2/undated (2117 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls MN. 55405)
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is a nicely done 22-page radical zine, with #2 being a special
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drug issue with articles entitled "Everything you know about
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marijuana is wrong," and "Fight the urine police." Also news on
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Mumia Abu- Jamal, an anti-pro-life demo, and a review of Dave
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Dellinger's From Yale to Jail. No price listed, but send a couple
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bucks for sample issue.
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GREEN ANARCHIST #32/Summer '93 (Box H, 34 Cowley Rd., Oxford OX4
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1HZ, U.K.) is now a greatly more readable, 16-page tabloid, still
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dedicated to creating a society of "Autonomous, self-sufficient
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villages, bringing regression of technology." This issue includes
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a piece speculating "Tide turns for anti-fascists?" (recounting
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details of a momentary shift in police repression away from
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British anti-fascists towards the BNP), an account of the
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struggle to save Twyford Down from destruction to build a new
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motorway, and George French's argument for primitivist tribalism
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titled "A settlement with nature." Subscriptions are =9C4.75/5
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issues.
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READ IT! #7/undated (c/o BOX 8, 82 Colston St., Bristol, UK) is
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a 24-page anarcho, crusty-punk zine. This issue includes band
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interviews with Nomeansno, Blaggers I*T*A, and Corpus Vile along
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with articles "Outlawing Abortion Was - And Is - a Nazi Program!"
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and "No justice? no peace!" Also included are music and zine
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reviews. $2 per issue.
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TOTALITARIAN TIMES #2/Spring '93 (c/o Morlock Clorophyll, POB
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119, 1895 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, BC, V5N 4A6, Canaduh) This
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26-page photocopied zine contains articles on suppression of
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dissent in Canada, U.S. imperialism in Somalia, class war in
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Iraq, and ageism & disempowerment. Send them 50 cents and its all
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A PRIMER TOWARDS FURTHER DIALOGUE (c/o Chuck Dodson, 405 W.
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Washington #170, San Diego, CA. 92103). is a very thoughtful
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question and answer piece on man/boy/dude love put out by Chuck
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Dodson the publisher of I AM. This 18 page 20 question primer
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dis- cusses such topics as consent/age of consent, "Is there a
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difference between man/boy love and child abuse," "Why does
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anyone want to have sex with boys," "What about the power
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imbalance in man/boy relationships" and much more. This is an
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honest attempt to discuss these topics, and would be of great use
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to those interested in the politics of kids and kids-lib. 50
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SERF CITY BLACK BANNER #1/June (POB 7691, Santa Cruz, CA. 95061)
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is a 12-page newsletter of the Santa Cruz Anarchist Movement
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(S.C.A.M.). Issue #1 includes "Santa Cruz Anarchist Movement hits
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the pavement" on the formation of S.C.A.M. Also "Chrystmyth;
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Demotheism versus monotheism," "Class war, anti-evictionism and
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the mass boycott of rent & mortgage-unto-metaviction," and a
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successful guerrilla gardening action account entitled "Organic
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underground radicals: Gardening the illegal way". Issues are $1.
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PRACTICAL ANARCHY #7/Spring '93 (Chuck Munson, 16 N. Butler St.
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#2, Madison, WI. 53703) is a 28-page zine now focusing on
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anarchist news, reviews and resources. This issue includes Liz
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Highleyman's account of "Anarchists at the March on Washington,"
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and contributions to a discussion on "Anarchy and women" from
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Lorraine Schein and Bob Black. Send $1 for a sample copy;
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subscrip- tions are $5/4 issues.
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CONTRA FLOW #6/June '93 (56a Info Shop, 56 Crampton St., London
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SE17, U.K.) is a 24-page info-zine formerly titled 56a Info Shop
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Bulletin. It carries radical news "the general media doesn't
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touch" compiled "from radical journals and leaflets," with a
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heavy emphasis on anti-fascist actions, including an interview
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with a member of the French anti-fascist group Reflex. Send a
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donation for a sample.
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FREEZINE Vol.4,#2/Spring '92 (POB 1465, Troy, NY. 12180) is a
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nicely-produced 16-page magazine, subtitled "social alternatives
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for everyone." This issue features an essay by Jay Ou "On
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rallying with the natives: Solidarity/ways of knowing." The
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publication is free, but send a contribution for postage. No
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Nation Bulletin #14/Spring '93 (People to People Friendship
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Ass., c/o S=94ren Groth, =FEdalen, Salt=86 Arb. Skola, 15 300 J=84rna,
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Sweden) is a photocopied 16-page exchange of short letters and
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announcements from people living on different continents.
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Subscrip- tions are U.S.$5/year (4 issues).
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ANIM@DVERSE #8/undated (POB 57464, Jackson Stn., Hamilton,
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Ontario L8P 4X3, Canada) is a 16-page zine covering "issues of
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oppression and struggles towards the liberation and
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self-determination of all beings." Subscriptions are $5/12 issues
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(cash only) or trade.
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BURNING ISSUE #7/Autumn '93 (POB 199, East Brunswick 3057,
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Australia) is a 16-page publication of the Anarcho-Syndicalist
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Federation/International Workers Association. This issue includes
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"Arguing State Dept.," "Holiday in Narrungar," "Asbestos and the
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Bunjalung Update," "Collingwood Youth Club Occupation," and a
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short story entitled "The Building Site," and an Australian
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contact list. $1.
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BLACK AND RED #6/July-August '93 (c/o Hill, 160 Lefferta Ave.,
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Brooklyn, NY. 11225) is an 18-page newsletter of the anarchist
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caucus, CoC. This issue includes "National Health Plan Now!",
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"Revolutionary socialists and the Committees of Correspondence,"
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"The U.S. left, youth, & global monopoly capitalism," and
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information on The Center for Contemporary Activism. Send a buck
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or so for a sample issue.
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ATLATL #2 & #3/undated (POB 650116, Austin, TX. 78765) Issue #2
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deals with a look at the L.A. riots through anarchist eyes, and
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also includes a humorous piece entitled "Bush/Dahmer in '92!:
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Continuing a rich American tradition." Issue #3 includes an
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article entitled "Struggle against study: How to scam your way
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through college - with pay." Issues are $1 each.
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THE CONNECTION #191/undated (Box 3343F, Fairfax, VA 22038) is a
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68-page apa, formerly titled The Libertarian Connection,
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featuring page upon page of tiny-print discussions, all
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originating from reader-participants. Sample copies are $2.50;
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subscriptions are $20/8 issues (checks to E. Strauss).
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@-NEWS #2/Jan.-May '93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens, Greece) is a
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new 4-page "Informative Bulletin by Anarchic Intervention" This
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issue contains information on the cases of anarchist prisoners
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Kiriakos Mazokopos and Giorgos Balafas. Send a contribution for a
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sample.
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THE THOUGHT Vol.13,#4/April, #5/May & #6/June '93 (POB 3092, Or-
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ange, CA. 92665) is the 24 to 32-page, photocopied publication of
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the Philosophers Guild. The June special issue is the 100th
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published, including publisher Ronald Tobin's "The Thought: A
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look back and a look ahead," Ben Price's "What's new about the
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new age or new world order?" and Robert Sagehorn on "The
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alternative society's media." Subscriptions are $11/12 issues.
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MUSELETTER #20/Aug.'93 (Richard Heinberg, 1433 Olivet Rd., Santa
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Rosa, CA. 95401) is a 4-page monthly comment zine. This issue
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consists of a very enthusiastic review of the recently published
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The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power. Subscriptions are
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$12/ year.
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DISCUSSION BULLETIN #59/May-June & #60/July-Aug.'93 (POB 1564,
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Grand Rapids, MI. 49501) is an occasionally interesting 32-page
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assortment of letters and reprinted articles primarily from the
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anti-market, non-statist radical milieu. Subscriptions are
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$3/year (6 issues).
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STEAL THE FIRE unnumbered /undated (Acts of Resistance, 537
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Jones #1584, San Francisco, CA. 94102) is an unpaginated
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newsletter focusing on direct-action resistance activities in the
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S.F. Bay Area. This issue includes an update on the People's Park
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struggle SLAPP suit, and an account of the police attack on the
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recent Portland anarchist unconference. Send a contribution for a
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sample.
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=20
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LESBIAN & GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT #7/Summer '93 (BM Box 207,
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London, WC1N 3XX, England) is an excellent little 12-page zine
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campaigning for sexual liberation without the usual blind spots.
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This issue includes a short piece titled "Bisexual, queer and
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proud!" along with an excerpt from the BAD Brigade's "An
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anarchist defense of pornography." Single copies are 60p (cash
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only) postpaid.
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THE WEB unnumbered/undated (POB 187, N. Hollywood, CA. 91603) is
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a new 20-page zine subtitled "Southern California's Anarchist
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Journal," including Chris Crass on "Anarchism now: Organizing
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today, for the free society of tomorrow," and accounts of several
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gatherings. Send a stamp for a free copy.
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LITTLE BOOK OF REVOLUTION #9/Summer '93 (Brooke, 116 W. Barrett
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Ave., Richmond, CA. 94801) is a 16-page zine featuring a comic
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titled "No heroes" by the publisher, Brooke Terpstra, and a very
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impressive centerfold collage. Subscriptions are $2/year (4
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issues).
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A INFOS #11/Jan.-April '93 (c/o Int. Secr. LAS, POB 61523, 2506
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am Den Haag, Netherlands) is a 6-page photocopied information
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bulletin covering recent events in the Netherlands. Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.=20
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THE MEANDER QUARTERLY Vol.5,#2/Aug. '93 (c/o Ed Stamm,POB 1402,
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Lawrence, KS. 66044) is a 20-page "Newsletter of evolutionary
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anarchists" consisting of letters from contributors, now in the
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hands of a new (and also the original) coordinator. Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.
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FAU INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH unnumbered/undated (Frank
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Richardson- Schafer, Karlstr. 11, D-3501 Fuldatal 2
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Simmershausen, Germany) is a 4-page English-language summary of
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the German-language anarchist- syndicalist tabloid Direkte
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Aktion. Send a contribution for a sample copy.
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NOISY CONCEPT unnumbered/undated (1216 Lincoln Ave., Cuyahoga
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Falls, OH. 44223-2227) is an unpaginated zine resuming
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publication under a new editor. Send an SASE for a sample copy.=20
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COUNTER INFORMATION #37/July-Sept.'93 (Pigeonhole CI, c/o 11
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Forth St., Edinburgh EH1, Scotland) is a 4-page direct action
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newssheet. Send a contribution for a sample copy.
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SORTE KORS #2/1992 (c/o Peter Bach, Strandvejen 93, DK-4200
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Slagelse, Denmark) is a 5-page, English-language newsletter of
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the Danish Anarchist Black Cross. This issue includes "The tale
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of Christiania," on the history of a relatively free
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countercultural community which has evolved out of a squatted
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military base. Send a contribution for a sample copy.
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NEWS FROM DENMARK #1/1993 (c/o Peter Bach, Strandvejen 93,
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DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark) is a 2-page newsletter. Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.
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A INFOS #30-31/Jan.-Feb.'93 (Humeurs Noires [F.A.], BP 79, 59370
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Mons en Baroeul, France) is the 8-page French edition (in the
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English language) of the A-Infos international "Bulletins
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d'information" - meant for spreading news for publication in
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anarchist periodicals. Send a contribution for a sample copy;
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subscriptions are $6-$10/year (IMO payable to ALDIR).=20
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NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PERIODICALS RECEIVED:
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SOLIDARIDAD OBRERA #236/Mar.-Abril thru #239/Julio '93 (Ronda de
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San Antonio, 13 pral 08001-Barcelona, Spain) is the 8 to 16-page
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Spanish-language regional newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist
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C.N.T. in Catalonia. Issue #236 includes "Libertad para Leonard
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Peltier." Sample copies are 100ptas plus 20ptas postage.
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CNT #147/Mar., #150/Junio & #151/Julio '93 (CNT-Peri=A2dico, Apar-
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tado de Correos 2.271, 18.080 Granada, Spain) is the 24-page,
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Spanish-language newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist
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Confederaci=A2n Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of
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Workers union). Issue #151 includes Colin Ward on "Despu=82s del
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autom=A2vil," and Pablo Serrano's "Ludditas 2000: Fantasia del
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mundo feliz." Sub- scriptions are 2,500ptas./year (12 issues).
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W@RRIOR #3/Junio & #4/Aug.'93 (A.R.P., PO Box 57, Sakyo
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Yubinkyoku, J-606 Kyoto, Japan) is a new 8-page Japanese-language
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newsletter "published mainly by young anarchists who are involved
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in several movements." It includes a back page in English sum-
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marizing recent Japanese anarchist activities. Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.
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DISTURB@NCE #11?/undated (POB 31261, 10035 Athens, Greece) is an
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8-page, Greek-language tabloid, with more news of current
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struggles in Greece. Cover price is 150 drachmas.=20
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LE LIBERTAIRE; REVUE DE SYNTHESE ANARCHISTE #137/Juin &
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#138/Juillet '93 (25 rue Dum=82 d'Aplemont, 76600 Le Havre, France)
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is a 4-page, monthly, French-language "review of synthetic anar-
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chism" published by the Union des anarchistes. International
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subscriptions are 80F/year (10 issues).
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BRAND #55/Maj & #56/Juni '93 (Box 150 15, S-104 65 Stockholm,
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Sweden) is a lively, 32-page Swedish-language magazine, with
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consistently good photography and a fairly activist slant. Issue
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#55 includes an interview with Matt Black of Love & Rage. Issue
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#56 includes an English-language summary at the back. Cover price
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is 20KR.
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SOCIAL HARMONY #7/July(?) '93 (POB 76148, Nea Smirni T.K. 17110,
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Athens, Greece) is an 8-page, Greek-language anarcho-communist
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/communalist bimonthly. Send a contribution for a sample copy.=20
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UMANITA' NOVA Vol 73,#14/25 Aprile thru #24/4 Luglio and #26/29
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Agosto '93 (c/o G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48, 87019 Spezzano
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Alban- ese [CS], Italy) is the 4 to 8-page, Italian-language
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weekly newspaper of the Federazione Anarchica Italiana.
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Subscriptions are US $55.00/year.
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EL LIBERT@RIO #25/Mayo-Junio '93 (Brasil 1551, 1154 Buenos
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Aires, Argentina) is the 4-page, Spanish-language newspaper of
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the Federacion Libertaria Argentina. The lead story for this
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issue is "1993: Crisis y demagogia electoralista." Send a
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contribution for a sample copy.
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MORDICUS #10/=90t=82 '93 (BP 11, 75622 Paris Cedex 13, France) is an
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18-page issue of this French-language tabloid, featuring a cover
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spoof (and including an interview with and other articles) on the
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spectacular schoolkid hostage-taking episode in France, which
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gained an immense amount of media coverage. The cover price is
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20F; subscriptions are 100F/? issues.
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LIBERA VOLO #51/Junio thru #53/Sept.'93 (A.R.P., PO Box 57,
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Sakyo Yubinkyoku, J-606 Kyoto, Japan) is the 6-page
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Japanese-language newsletter of the Federacio Anarkiista of
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Japan. Send a contribution for a sample copy.
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TELEGRAPH Vol.4,#4/April, #5/May & 6/June '93 (Schliemannstr.
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22, Berlin O-1058, Germany) is a 48 to 52-page German-language
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publication from East Berlin covering the current situation in
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Germany. Subscriptions are 34DM/year.
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DE NAR #80/Mei, #81/Juni & #82/Juli '93 (V.Z.W. De Nar, Postbus
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104, B-1210, Brussels 21, Belgium) - which translates as "The
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Fool" - is a 4 to 8-page Dutch-language "monthly
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anti-authoritarian newspaper." Send a contribution for a sample
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copy.
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ANARES INFO #40/undated (Postfach 229, CH-3000 Bern 8, Swit-
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zerland) is the 24-page German-language newsletter of this
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archive and library. Write for more information.=20
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ROJO Y NEGRO #43/Marzo, #45/Mayo & #46/Junio '93 (Sagunto 15,
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pral., 28010 Madrid, Spain) is the 16-page, Spanish-language
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news- paper of the reformist anarcho-syndicalist C.G.T.
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(Confederacion General del Trabajo=FEa split from the more
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traditionally anarcho- syndicalist C.N.T. in Spain).
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Subscriptions are 1,000ptas/ year (12 issues).
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SCHWARZER FADEN #46/April '93 (Postfach 1159, 7043 Grafenau-1,
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Germany) is a well-produced 72-page, German-language magazine,
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subtitled "Vierteljahresschrift F=81r Lust und Freiheit." This
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issue includes Peter Bierl on "Feindbild Mensch: =99kofaschismus
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und New Age," and an account of "Libert=84re Tage: Kritik und
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Gegenkritik ein Mosaik unterschiedlichster Sichtweisen."
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Subscriptions are 50.-DM/8 issues.
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DOTT. LEETE #0/Autunno '93 (c/o G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48,
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87019 Spezzano Albanese [CS], Italy) is a brand new 40-page,
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Italian- language journal of "Ideazioni Anarchiche Del Dritto &
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Rovescio," published as a supplement to Umanita' Nova. This first
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issue includes reprints from Noam Chomsky and Mary
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Wollstonecraft, along with an interview with Ernst Bloch titled
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"Marx, Bakunin e lo stato." Included with subscriptions to the
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weekly Umanita' Nova at US $55.00/year.
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MAVRO RODO #3/Io=A3vio- 1993 (PO Box 10005, 54110 Thessaloniki,
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Greece) is an impressive 100-page Greek-language "libertarian-
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anarchist review for humans and their culture," whose title
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attitudes of 19th century Greek anarchists and socialists toward
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the Balkan Federation, along with translations, fiction and news.
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EXEGERSI #12/Nov.'92 (Anarchist Coil, POB 30658, Athens 10033,
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Greece) is a 16-page, Greek-language newspaper whose title
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translates as `Riot' or `Revolt'. This issue includes "State
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syndicalism: The enemy is the same," and "Laws and decrees get
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A-KONTRA #46-48/April & #49-53/July '93 (POB 552, 17000 Praha
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by people from =FE.A.S. (Czechoslovak Anarchist Union)" which
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ANARCHIC INTERVENTION #8/Spring(?) '93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens,
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DIREKTE AKTION #5/Spring(?) '93 (A.S.O., Postboks 303, 1502
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Kobenhavn V., Denmark) was a 16-page, Danish-language tabloid of
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HORS D'ORDRE #3/Juin '93 (Collectif Hors d'Ordre, 64, rue de
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The Final Empire
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Review by John Zerzan
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The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of
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the Future by William F. K=94tke (Arrow Point Press, POB 14754,
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Portland, OR. 97214, 1993). 401pp. $19.95 paper (+ $2 p&h).
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The Final Empire is a basically meaty book; it is divided into
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two parts, as designated by its compound subtitle. The first,
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``The Collapse of Civilization,'' is the meatier and more valid
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of the two halves.
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K=94tke sets out by telling us that ``our generation is on the
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verge of the most profound catastrophe the human species has ever
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faced,'' that civilization, in fact, is ``a culture of suicide.''
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He sees clearly how ``the earth, its life and material forms
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became simply objects for manipulation and accumulation'' via
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domestication, and how agriculture, the science of domestication,
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represents ``the greatest ecological disaster.'' The present
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crisis, in other words, follows from the very basis of
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civilization; as K=94tke succinctly puts it, ``Agriculture and
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herding began the energy system of empire [a word he seems to use
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synonymously with civilization], rooting in the soil, extracting
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energy directly out of the planetary metabolism - and growing by
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the force of violence employed against the earth.''
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K=94tke's strongest suit lies in depicting what has happened to
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the civilized world physically - its soil, oceans, etc. With the
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notable exception of many fruitful references to tribal peoples,
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social existence is rather slighted. Also, when history makes its
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appearance it is virtually always purely as a record of
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victimization - that is, struggles and resistance are left out.
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Here is a very rare exception: ``Waves of social revolution swept
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Europe throughout the twelfth through eighteenth centuries. These
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various and diverse movements, including the Luddites, the
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Levellers, the Diggers, the Chartists, the Quakers, and others,
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were spiritually- based.'' In fairness such characterization also
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apparently means communalist, anti-hierarchical, and
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anti-imperialist, but this brief passage hints at spacey things
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to come.
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The second half of The Final Empire is ``a plan of action for
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us to regain paradise.'' Unfortunately, this ``plan,'' in part,
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rests upon a fundamental, non-oppositional illusion. K=94tke's
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version of what to do about the horrendous reality of today is a
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New Age package of holism, non-violent interdependence, cosmic
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perspective, flow, balance, harmony, etc. To emerge from the
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``disaster of civilization'' we must practice primal scream
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therapy, hypnosis, Reichian massage, reflexology, and other such
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therapies, plus the ``mystic gardening'' of Findhorn, and
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permaculture. The book ends with, ``If our daily lives are
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substantially directed toward regaining that [lost] balance then
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we are on the path to paradise.''
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Having provided an informative catalog of the malignant effects
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of civilized life on the planet and its surviving inhabitants,
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K=94tke completely evades the essential task of destroying that
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civilization. The ever-increasing gamut of therapies, ``soul
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travel,'' gurus, ad nauseam, and $500/week permaculture seminars,
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and their affirmative, positive vibes resolutely ignore the
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inescapably necessary negative: facing and removing the entire
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ugly system that is crushing us and the natural world. K=94tke
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starts with domestication, but ends there; no analysis of social
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institutions, dynamics and structures that constitute capital's
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long, pathological trajectory. This is how, evidently, his
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prescription can be so limited, even ludicrous.
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Debord's In Girum...
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Review by John Zerzan
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In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni by Guy Debord, translated
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by Lucy Forsyth (Pelagian Press, BCM Signpost, London WC1N 3XX,
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England, no copyright, undated) 80pp. $13.95/ =9C6.95 paper.
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The title, a palindrome, which translates from the Latin as We
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Go Round and Round and are Consumed by Fire, is only the first
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striking and lyrical touch of this inspiring book. Expensive but
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flawlessly executed, In Girum is the script of the 1978 Debord
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film. Its visuals, which range from TV commercials, western movie
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clips, and Prince Valiant cartoons, to tracking shots of Paris
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and Venice, are described in small print just below the lines of
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the script; the book also contains twelve pages of stills.
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In Girum opens with, "I will make no concession to the public in
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this film" and closes on a similarly defiant note: "As these last
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reflections on violence show, for me there will be no going back
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and no reconciliation. There will be no good conduct."
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Basically, the book contains an acerbic dissection of society,
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with its "conspicuous consumption of nothingness" and slavish
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illusions, a somewhat veiled history of the Situationist
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International (not mentioned by name), in the activities of which
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Debord played a decisive role, and many personal reminiscences,
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including elegiac and loving references to his favorite Parisian
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neighborhoods, destroyed by techno-progress.
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This short work combines a rich range of subject matter, the
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sense of which must be even more expansive in the film itself,
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with uncompromising insights and a beautiful economy of style.
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Highest recommendation.
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Debord's Comments
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Review by John Zerzan
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Comments on the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (Verso
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Press, 29 W. 35th St., New York, NY. 10001-2291, 1990) 94pp.
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$14.95 paper.
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Despite the limitations of some of its neo-Marxist
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underpinnings, Debord's Society of the Spectacle is an extremely
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valuable analysis of the contemporary commodity-developed world.
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Incisive and bold enough to have been conscientiously avoided by
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the predominant leftist publishing world and likewise ignored in
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the recent cultural resuscitation of the Situationist
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International by the avant-garde art-school crowd. Issued by the
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S.I. in 1967, Society of the Spectacle's fundamental contribution
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is its treatment of the erosion of life as lived experience and
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its replacement by representation, life experienced as the
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received effects and images of commodity culture=FEas spectacle.
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Twenty years later, Debord has offered these Comments, "sure to
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be welcomed by fifty or sixty people"=FEa good half of whom, he
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estimates, with further pessimistic humor, in the service of the
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spectacle. In this interim twenty years, he estimates spectacular
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power to have "continued to gather strength; that is, to spread
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to the furthest limits on all sides, while increasing its density
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in the center." It has reached a stage of strength and ubiquity,
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Comments tells us, as to now be known as the integrated
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spectacle, a stage marked by its global spread and unchecked
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reign. Concrete, everyday life no longer possesses autonomy or a
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force of its own; it has been annihilated and conformist
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integration fully achieved.=20
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Government itself, it is argued, has been radically altered by
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this triumphant ascendancy of the spectacle, such that organized
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crime, business, and the state function together as a mega-
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conspiracy. Secrecy, surveillance, and the always-present media
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work as an ensemble in the interests of the spectacle's total
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control. Debord provides as an example of conspiratorial control
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lengthy and noisy oil-exploration drilling in Paris itself,
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conducted in 1986 for no other reason than "to measure the
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inhabitants' current level of stupefaction and submission." On
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the same page (56), he goes so far as to claim that "the real
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cost" of world economic production "is never calculated; and the
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rest is kept secret" (italics his). It seems that the spectacle
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has moved off into that rarefied space in which it exists for
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itself and by itself, beyond reference points in the vulgar,
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mundane sphere.
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But what has happened to the commodity, so persuasively evoked
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in Society of the Spectacle as the touchstone and source of
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spectacular power? Only in passing does he comment that it is
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"above criticism" and that those who located in political economy
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"the final denial of humanity" are now seeing the truth of that
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formulation; in fact, the commodity is virtually absent from
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Debord's current views, to judge from the Comments. Instead, we
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are treated to a paranoiac as well as totally pessimistic
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outlook, full of conspiracy at all levels. "The result is," he
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avers, "that under the rule of the integrated spectacle, we live
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and die at the confluence of innumerable mysteries."
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This strange turn by Debord is what I find mysterious, and quite
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unconvincing. It may be that the heightened repressive powers
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enacted in France, Germany, and Italy during the '70s in response
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to terrorism, plus the popularity of Reagan and the unsolved 1984
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murder of his friend Lebovici, to whom the book is dedicated,
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combined to shape the bizarre slant of Comments. In any case,
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this one-dimensional effort at updating the spectacle thesis is a
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disappointing side-step from the historical richness and rigor of
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his classic work.
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Plant's gesture
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Review by Patrick Frank
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The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a
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Postmodern Age by Sadie Plant (Routledge, New York & London,
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1992) 218pp. $16.00 paper.
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This book is an attempt to drag Situationist thought into the
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mainstream of recent European intellectual culture by tracking
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relationships and mutual influences between the Situationist
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International and postmodernist thinkers. The author, a lecturer
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in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, believes
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that the social critique of the SI "can be made to perform in the
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big top of critical theory," and merits academic scrutiny on a
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par with its near neighbors in cultural studies. The book is
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useful and valuable, but it runs the risk of domesticating what
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its author wants to nurture.
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Plant considers the critique of alienation produced by Debord
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and Vaneigem in comparison with those of the potentates of pomo
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Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Fran=87ois Lyotard, and finds that they
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share concerns both about the deadening impact of the spectacle
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on contemporary consciousness, and about language as the tool of
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ideology which reinforces it at every utterance. She overstates
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the case, though, by saying that "all theoretisations [sic] of
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post- modernist theory are underwritten by situationist theory,"
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and that "the world of uncertainty and superficiality described
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and celebrated by the postmodernists is precisely that which the
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situationists first subjected to passionate criticism." Rather
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than direct influence from SI to pomo, the two theories have
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common sources in Socialisme ou Barbarie and the critique of
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Henri Lefebvre and George Luk=A0cs. The differences between Debord
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and Lyotard, Vaneigem and Baudrillard, hinge on differing
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constructions of the possibility of consciousness to enact its
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own liberating gestures within the "prison-house of language."
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Plant notices this, and her discussion has the effect of bringing
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this difference into fairly sharp relief, but she does not weigh
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the two opposing psychologies, a task she may have considered
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beyond the book's scope. Someday that will have to be done.
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One gets from this book a good overview of Situationist ideas,
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mainly from Debord's Society of the Spectacle and Vaneigem's
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Revolution of Everyday Life. While favorably disposed, Plant is
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not uncritical of the SI scheme. She wonders, for example, if the
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strategies of d=82rive and d=82tournement are ways of overturning the
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society of the spectacle or of finding ways to survive in it. She
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notes how wrong the SI was in claiming that the spectacle was
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about to fall of its own dead weight. She could be more critical
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of the SI's secretiveness and its periodic purges, though these
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are noted. Her discussion of the postmodernists is similarly
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well-informed as far as their ideas mesh with those of the SI,
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but pomo theories had other sources (such as Claude Levi-Strauss
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and Roland Barthes, and the feminism of Luce Irigaray and Julia
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Kristeva) which are not considered here.
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While the general effect of this book will be to lend legitimacy
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to the SI and its ideas by bringing it out in the open with
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postmodernism, this is not the only book that one should read on
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either movement. Moreover, while the two movements do share
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important points in common, more work needs to be done on their
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differences (for some more on this, see John Zerzan, "The
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Catastrophe of Postmodernism," Anarchy Fall '91). Now that
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postmodernism is waning rapidly as an intellectual interest,
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trapped by its own fatalism, haunted by revelations of past
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coziness with Nazis, and as the AIDS tragedy has taken away some
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of its more eloquent voices, perhaps the SI can begin to get its
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due as critical theory. Plant's book is timely, but "performing
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in the big top" is a haunting metaphor for a set of theories that
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would rather torch the tent altogether.
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HAKIM BEY'S T.A.Z.
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Review by Patrick Frank
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T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, and
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Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey (Autonomedia, POB 568, Brooklyn,
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NY. 11211-0568, 1991) 141pp. $6.00 paper.
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Less angry than most punkers, less doctrinaire than most
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libertarians, and less serious than most situationists, Hakim Bey
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here weighs in with a collection of three important works which
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highlight the convolutions of his extremely imaginative yet
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sometimes airy mental migrations.=20
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"Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchy," is a series of
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short pieces which amount to a kind of postmodern shopping trip
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through strategies of individualized, momentary acts of
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revolution: "Go naked." "Organize a strike for indolence and
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spiritual beauty." "Pick someone at random and convince them that
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they're heir to an enormous, useless, and amazing fortune."
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Drawing about equally from Zen, William Burroughs, and Vaneigem's
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Revolution of Everyday Life, Bey urges us to activate and
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experience the chaos at the root of all existence, which he says
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never really died despite spectacular society's efforts to
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contain and forget the fact. In the second section, "Communiques
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of the Association for Ontological Anarchy," he exposes more of
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his metaphysic, which turns out to be an eclectic blend of
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mythologies and alchemies (Western and non-), erected over an
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armature of Chuang Tzu's Taoism and contemporary chaos theory.
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The title cut from this album is "T.A.Z.," and it's here that we
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see Bey at his strongest, and weakest. Since the state is now
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entirely too powerful, he urges the establishment of Temporary
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Autonomous Zones, activities of refusal and disappearance that do
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not directly engage the state, but each rather "liberates an area
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(of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself"
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before it can be crushed or co-opted. A TAZ can take almost any
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form: a computer bulletin board, an intoxicated evening,
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week-long commune. No neo-primitivist, he accepts contemporary
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technology but urges TAZers to function as "thieving magpies, or
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the hunter-gatherers of the world of CommTech." He finds
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historical antecedents for such ventures in interesting places,
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including Caribbean pirate enclaves and Gabriele D'Annunzio's
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Adriatic colony Fiume. These and other possible TAZ's are
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explored at some length in this essay, and he makes a convincing
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argument that such gestures are real, encouraging alternatives
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for liberty-loving people. Bey's work lacks the diamond-eyed
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insights of a Debord, or the moral/ethical commitment of a
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Kropotkin, but the comparisons are not unfair because he is
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attempting something on their scale of vision and synthesis.
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The problem is that "T.A.Z." reads more like an exploratory
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essay than a finished product. The scholarship is quick and
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dirty. Better at the flash of genius than the painstaking
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research, Bey leaves much work to be done in fleshing out the
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real relevance of his historical background episodes. They sound
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good, but we need to know more. And the language can be
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maddeningly vague. He devotes an appendix to the science of
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"chaos linguistics," but this seems merely caving in to the
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floating signifiers of advertising and politics. This, for
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example on a positive gesture of refusal in art: "Is it possible
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to imagine an aesthetics that does not engage, that removes
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itself from History and even from the Market? or at least tends
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to do so? which wants to replace representation with presence?
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How does presence make itself felt even in (or through)
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representation?" Very little of this means anything.
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Some of the gestures suggested in this book seem futile and
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overly spiritualized, like Alan Ginsberg chanting "Om" at Chicago
|
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in 1968. But if you can't be a little inspired by Bey's
|
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curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm, there is little hope for
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you.
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On An(archy) and
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Schizoanalysis
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Review by Patrick Frank
|
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On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis by Rolando Perez (Autonomedia,
|
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|
POB 568, Brooklyn, NY. 11211-0568, 1990) 144pp. $10.00 paper.
|
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A guide to personal liberation, an effort to show us how to
|
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|
|
``recognize the many faces of fascism in everyday life,'' and to
|
||
|
|
``live as a human being independent of the morality of exclusive
|
||
|
|
binary oppositions, foundations, and institutions,'' this book
|
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|
|
sets a tall task for itself. Some interesting and valuable lines
|
||
|
|
of thought are picked up, but most are not carried far enough.
|
||
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|
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Perez takes as inspiration the musings of Antonin Artaud, the
|
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|
|
postmodern psychoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,
|
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|
|
and the later Nietzsche's rants. These sources are explored and
|
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|
|
quoted at some length, but without nearly enough commentary.
|
||
|
|
Perez stays entirely too close to them, skimming their seductive
|
||
|
|
surfaces and jumping from one to the other in rapid- fire
|
||
|
|
succession. Perez is one of the few anarchist writers who takes
|
||
|
|
postmodernism seriously, and he is right to find support in
|
||
|
|
Deleuze and Guattari. Their decentered, schizoid brand of
|
||
|
|
analysis can be extremely helpful to Perez's vision of ``free,
|
||
|
|
uncoded individuals,'' yet this overdue rapprochement with
|
||
|
|
postmodern thought is only haltingly done and needs further
|
||
|
|
treatment. I hope he devotes his next book to this subject.
|
||
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|
||
|
|
He uses Artaud, rightly, to answer Jacques Derrida and Roland
|
||
|
|
Barthes. This is not difficult to do if you mistrust the pomo
|
||
|
|
thinkers' emphasis on the text and linguistic mediation; Artaud's
|
||
|
|
primordial shrieks are a decided tonic to the pomo ``prisonhouse
|
||
|
|
of language.'' Yet some postmodern ideas are oversimplified here.
|
||
|
|
For example, nowhere in Barthes is ``the text now made God,'' as
|
||
|
|
Perez claims; this is a flip denunciation.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Perez's analysis of the capitalist state, with its constant
|
||
|
|
spectacles and appropriation of oppositional forms, is basic
|
||
|
|
post-Situationist boilerplate. His program of resistance is
|
||
|
|
thoroughly individualized, as he strongly believes that the
|
||
|
|
revolution must first occur within each of us ``desiring-
|
||
|
|
machines'' (his term, borrowed from Deleuze and Guattari). This
|
||
|
|
makes some sense, but I wonder if this focus on the individual,
|
||
|
|
while it seems a reasonable response to the oppression of the
|
||
|
|
spectacle, isn't also partly an outgrowth of the same detested
|
||
|
|
society, with its shattering of the social web into an amorphous
|
||
|
|
mass of self-gratifying individuals. Maybe his revolutionary
|
||
|
|
individuality is only a warp-speed version of today's
|
||
|
|
consumerism.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
He worries about the future role of art, and hopes for the day
|
||
|
|
that art will escape hierarchical authority by ``becoming a-
|
||
|
|
signifying.'' What this means is nowhere clearly stated, and his
|
||
|
|
examples (Cage, Bukowski, cummings, Tzara) are, again, common
|
||
|
|
currency. The book concludes with a meditation on the future role
|
||
|
|
of women, and Perez rounds up the usual suspects (Freud, Sartre,
|
||
|
|
phallocentrism) and shoots them with many of feminism's familiar
|
||
|
|
bullets. Here as elsewhere, one can hardly quarrel with this
|
||
|
|
book's basic thrust; its ideas could be developed further.
|
||
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|
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|
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||
|
|
Films of Guy Debord
|
||
|
|
Review by Patrick Frank
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Society of the Spectacle and Other Films by Guy Debord (Rebel
|
||
|
|
Press, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1, England, 1992)
|
||
|
|
136pp. =9C5.50/$13.95 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Since Debord has ordered that none of his films ever be publicly
|
||
|
|
screened, this book is the only way to get to know the artistic
|
||
|
|
output of one of the most important social thinkers of the past
|
||
|
|
generation. Consisting of the complete scripts of his first five
|
||
|
|
films, together with notes on their associated imagery, and many
|
||
|
|
stills, this is an essential book for anyone who would get to
|
||
|
|
know Debord's mind. It shows him at his most brilliant, without
|
||
|
|
concealing his pitfalls. Before the release of this book (first
|
||
|
|
published in French in 1978), the only way one could get to know
|
||
|
|
his work was in Ken Knabb's Situationist International Anthology,
|
||
|
|
which contains scripts from two films without notes or stills.
|
||
|
|
This new book fills out the picture in what is probably the best
|
||
|
|
way possible until the opportunity arises to see the films
|
||
|
|
themselves.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Here a reader can at least partially experience the film version
|
||
|
|
of Debord's most important book, The Society of the Spectacle
|
||
|
|
(1973). Scripted with what Debord himself thought were the best
|
||
|
|
theses from his 1967 book, the film contains several
|
||
|
|
unforgettable juxtapositions of image and spoken text that reveal
|
||
|
|
the artistic strategy of d=82tournement (borrowing and
|
||
|
|
recontextualizing existing cultural material) at its most
|
||
|
|
powerful. For example, over the infamous TV news film of Jack
|
||
|
|
Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, the following narration: ``The
|
||
|
|
spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as
|
||
|
|
part of society, and as instrument of unification. As part of
|
||
|
|
society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all
|
||
|
|
looking and consciousness.'' Later, over footage of a traffic
|
||
|
|
jam, food advertisements, and an old painting: ``The diffuse
|
||
|
|
spectacle accompanies the abundance of commodities, the
|
||
|
|
undisturbed development of modern capitalism.'' Some of these
|
||
|
|
d=82tournements are hilarious, some jarring, but most express his
|
||
|
|
alienation in a profound, poignantly sad way that is pure Debord.
|
||
|
|
His films illuminate our times as clearly and brilliantly as
|
||
|
|
Goya's "Disasters of War" did his. =20
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Debord's technique, which used no actors and only a deadpan
|
||
|
|
narration, yields a soundtrack with disembodied readers who seem
|
||
|
|
at times like magisterial voices of authority. This seems a
|
||
|
|
drawback, out of keeping with Debord's beliefs, but it is
|
||
|
|
difficult to imagine another way of saying what is said here. We
|
||
|
|
see also Debord's petulant side, especially in his film
|
||
|
|
Refutation of All Judgments...Which Have Been Brought to Date on
|
||
|
|
the Film ``Society of the Spectacle,'' in which he mostly whines
|
||
|
|
and complains about his narrow-minded critics. Even his decision
|
||
|
|
to withdraw his work from circulation, however understandable the
|
||
|
|
explanation in the preface, has an element of
|
||
|
|
pick-up-my-toys-and-go-home about it. Yet none of this is to take
|
||
|
|
away from the clarity of his insights, or, now that we can know
|
||
|
|
them better, the power of his films.
|
||
|
|
|
||
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|
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|
||
|
|
Fatal Strategies
|
||
|
|
Review by Allan Antliff
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Fatal Strategies by Jean Baudrillard (Semiotext[e], POB 568,
|
||
|
|
Brooklyn, NY. 11211-0568/Pluto, 1990) 192pp. $10.00 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I admit it, reviewing this hapless tome was a dreary exercise
|
||
|
|
in "predestined boredom," (1) so I'll keep it short. Fatal
|
||
|
|
Strategies was originally published in 1983, and marks
|
||
|
|
Baudrillard's collapse into theory-for-theory's sake (not to
|
||
|
|
mention the royalties). From here on logging trees to publish
|
||
|
|
Baudrillard is simply unjustifiable. I refer the reader to his
|
||
|
|
flippant assessment on the eve of the Gulf war (2) ("the gulf war
|
||
|
|
will not happen") for an example of the lengths this self- styled
|
||
|
|
"gambler" (3) will go to maintain the epistemological consistency
|
||
|
|
upon which his "unscrupulous vitality" (4) in the theory-market
|
||
|
|
now depends.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The gist of the argument? Turn on a TV and make-believe you
|
||
|
|
believe it. Welcome to the simulacrum. Now, follow this logic:=20
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1) The simulations of this media universe are no longer
|
||
|
|
determined by any subject or institution.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
2) These simulations (objects) have a life independent of you,
|
||
|
|
me, or anyone else. They, in fact, constitute a new all-
|
||
|
|
pervasive Hyper-reality in which we (subjects) are
|
||
|
|
inconsequential.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
3) Pick any category of socially-determined reality. Replace it
|
||
|
|
with the Real Baudrillardian TV Version. War for instance.
|
||
|
|
Confined to its media simulation by the High Priest, "war, like
|
||
|
|
the real, will never again take place." (5) Poof.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Alright, so what's a "fatal strategy?" Suspend all attempts
|
||
|
|
to control the Hyperreal Object World you experience rather
|
||
|
|
than create and "take up the cause of the object." (6) Each
|
||
|
|
object has its own life and eclectic logic. Striving to bend
|
||
|
|
its logic to your own subjective desires is impossible, so
|
||
|
|
capitulate. Pursue its logic to its end, and find the "fatal
|
||
|
|
and enigmatic bias" (7) lying in wait.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"I'm not joking" (8) writes Baudrillard. God (9) forbid. In
|
||
|
|
the academic world, his "strategy" is serious stuff. Its been
|
||
|
|
generating book upon book, nice fat academic pay-cheques,
|
||
|
|
entire careers, and conferences, conferences, conferences for
|
||
|
|
the last 10 years. Never mind if the "object" of adoration
|
||
|
|
shows up drunk. On with the simulacrum!
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
1. Fatal Strategies, 184.
|
||
|
|
2. Jean Baudrillard, "The Reality Gulf," The Guardian (January
|
||
|
|
11, 1991), 25: the witless title (Reality. Gulf. Get it?) of
|
||
|
|
this essay is indicative of its content. Of course some
|
||
|
|
academics are enthralled with such daring logic. See, for exam-
|
||
|
|
ple, the ultra-humorless Mike Gane, who froths at the mouth in
|
||
|
|
his dust-jacket description about "Jean Baudrillard, a powerful
|
||
|
|
new force in cultural and social criticism, often referred to
|
||
|
|
as the "High Priest of postmodernism." Heard any hushed
|
||
|
|
elevator conversations about a "High Priest" lately? Funny, me
|
||
|
|
neither. On the Gulf War; Mike Gane. Baudrillard. London:
|
||
|
|
Routledge, 1991, 175.
|
||
|
|
3. Fatal Strategies, 153.
|
||
|
|
4. Baudrillard, Cool Memories, Verso, 1990, 38.
|
||
|
|
5. Fatal Strategies, 15.
|
||
|
|
6. Fatal Strategies, 190.
|
||
|
|
7. Fatal Strategies, 191.
|
||
|
|
8. Fatal Strategies, 184.
|
||
|
|
9. For the High Priest's treatise on God and (you guessed it)
|
||
|
|
the Devil, see Fatal Strategies, 144=FE150.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
|
Alternative press books
|
||
|
|
Short reviews by R. Curtis, M. Echt, J. McQuinn, M. Sunanda &
|
||
|
|
B. White
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
COMPUTERS & FREEDOM
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Speaking for the Unspeakable performed by Bruce Sterling (Sweet
|
||
|
|
Pea Productions, POB 912, 1673 Happy Trail, Topanga, CA. 90290,
|
||
|
|
1992) 54 minute videocassette. $55.00 + $4.00 s&h.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Bruce Sterling is the cyberpunk star of this videotaped
|
||
|
|
session from the 2nd Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
|
||
|
|
which took place in March, 1992, in Washington, D.C. Sterling
|
||
|
|
successfully portrays three archetypal characters inhabiting
|
||
|
|
the fringes of the hacker milieu=FEat least in people's
|
||
|
|
imagination, allowing them to speak their minds and develop
|
||
|
|
their vastly different perspectives at length. As "The Truly
|
||
|
|
Malicious Hacker," as "Sr. de Policia `X', and as the Digital
|
||
|
|
Black Marketeer, Sterling uses a minimum of props and stage
|
||
|
|
devices to maintain an entertaining one-man show with some
|
||
|
|
genuine content and bite at times, making this video one of the
|
||
|
|
more worthwhile I've seen of late. -J.M.
|
||
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|
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|
|
ALTERNATIVE PRESS TITLES FOR LIBRARIES
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
APT for Libraries 1993 edited by Charles Willett (CRISES
|
||
|
|
Press, Inc., 1716 SW Williston Rd., Gainesville, FL. 32608,
|
||
|
|
1993) 102pp. $12.00 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Alternative press books and periodicals are poorly represented
|
||
|
|
in almost all library collections. It isn't just coincidental
|
||
|
|
that critical, radical and experimental publications remain
|
||
|
|
unwelcome in many libraries while bigoted, religious, or
|
||
|
|
otherwise reactionary publications are often plentiful.
|
||
|
|
Librarians can be as biased as any other institutional
|
||
|
|
bureaucrats when it comes to the materials obtained for their
|
||
|
|
collections.
|
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However, in some cases alternative materials remain
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underrepresented even despite the presence of more open-minded
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librarians. In these cases librarians can often find it hard
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to redress the balance due to several other factors: the
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political climate, "public relations" and censorship pressures,
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or administrative opposition. In addition, most alternative
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materials are harder to locate and obtain if only because most
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are unavailable from the mainstream trade suppliers for the
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library industry (who generally have little interest in
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stocking alternative titles that won't make them as much profit
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as corporate-published titles). At the same time periodicals
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collections have been hit with massive increases in sub-
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scription prices by academic and institutional titles that bank
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on the inertia of automatic library renewals to fatten their
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pockets. Despite the fact that this greatly reduces the amount
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of money available to purchase alternative titles, most
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librarians have quietly played along with this scam.
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In this generally miserable situation the nonprofit CRISES
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Press has attempted to promote alternative titles by organizing
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alternative press exhibits at each conference of the American
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Library Association and by publishing APT for Libraries each
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year. APT for Libraries serves as an alternative press
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bibliography and selection tool oriented towards titles
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appropriate for "the general reader," according to editor
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Charles Willett. The entries consist of titles chosen by the
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Gainesville Alternative Press Group from among all those
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exhibited at ALA conferences by CRISES Press. A copy of APT for
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Libraries should be in every library. If your local library
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hasn't yet purchased a copy, it should be encouraged to do so.
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The existence of APT for Libraries means one less excuse for
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the absence of the alternative press in library collections.
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It's up to all of us to work on eliminating the other excuses
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as well. -J.M.
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NAMEBASE
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NameBase database constructed by Daniel Brandt and Steve
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Badrich (Public Information Research, POB 5199, Arlington, VA.
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22205, 1993) IBM or Mac diskettes $79.00.
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This has got to be one of the most important tools available
|
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|
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for assisting investigative reporting research concerning
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|
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international intelligence, political elites, U.S. foreign
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|
|
policy, conspiracy theories, counterinsurgency operations and
|
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|
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corporate manipulations. With this easily mastered computer
|
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|
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database it is a snap to check on over 67,000 names of groups
|
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|
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or individuals compiled from over 400 books and thousands of
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|
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periodicals (143,000 citations). This prodigious work of
|
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|
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cataloguing enables users to ask for references to all names
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associated with a particular country during a specified year
|
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|
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(or number of years) and then read the entire list within three
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|
|
minutes. Checking on Indonesia for 1975, France for 1968 or
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|
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Israel for 1989 can be more revealing than a whole day spent
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in most libraries.
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And among other features, the program can graph the
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|
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distribution of entries per year over the last sixty years for
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|
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every country for which there are citations. Searches can be
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read on screen, sent to files or directly printed. Leading
|
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|
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letter and phonetic searches can be done, and there is even
|
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|
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provision for crosschecking for common nicknames. The program
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|
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currently takes up 2.2 megabytes of hard disk space (though it
|
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|
|
can also be run on floppy disk-only systems). Update notices
|
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|
|
are provided after purchase of the database, and updated ver-
|
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|
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sions of the database are available to users for half-price.
|
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There is no question that NameBase ought to be available in
|
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|
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every public library, and copies should be frequently used by
|
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|
|
every author and every periodical doing serious investigative
|
||
|
|
research. Conspiracy theorists will love this database, but you
|
||
|
|
don't have to be conspiracy-theory-prone to appreciate its in-
|
||
|
|
credible value. I was actually shocked to see that it's offered
|
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|
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for only $79.00, which means that the publishers, Public Infor-
|
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|
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mation Research, truly are providing a non-profit service.
|
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|
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NameBase can't be too highly recommended. -J.M.
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TRANSACTION
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Transaction by Divided (Divided, POB 8302, Chicago, IL. 6080-
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|
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8302) $7.00 90-min. cassette/70pp. booklet.
|
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|
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|
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Transaction is a 90-minute compilation of "heavy," slow
|
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|
|
industrial music from various artists. The songs range from a
|
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|
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deep, serious industrial to an agonizingly slow industrial (as
|
||
|
|
opposed to thrashy or dance/pop industrial) including many
|
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|
|
heavily sampled cuts. The cassette is dedicated to the Ohio 7,
|
||
|
|
a group of urban guerrillas in prison for "seditious conspira-
|
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|
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cy" to overthrow the U.S. government by force. Involved with
|
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|
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the United Freedom Front or Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit,
|
||
|
|
the Ohio 7 political prisoners attempted to blow up U.S.
|
||
|
|
military installations and sabotage corporations in protest of
|
||
|
|
U.S. repression at home and abroad. Their armed actions were
|
||
|
|
intended to inspire others and to show solidarity with libera-
|
||
|
|
tion struggles elsewhere. Included with the tape is a booklet
|
||
|
|
by the same title containing autobiographies of the Ohio 7, a
|
||
|
|
justification for armed tactics and sabotage, and a call to
|
||
|
|
organize in revolutionary groups. Ironically, the booklet
|
||
|
|
finishes up with a discussion by Guy Debord on language and
|
||
|
|
power. -M.E.
|
||
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|
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EARLY LESSONS
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|
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|
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Early Lessons by John Bart Gerald with graphic art by Julie
|
||
|
|
Maas (Editions Gerald and Maas, POB 252, Moody, ME. 04054,
|
||
|
|
1992) 64pp. $6.00 paper.
|
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|
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|
|
Early Lessons is a good book. It is one of three works in a
|
||
|
|
series of books of short stories by Gerald with art by Maas.
|
||
|
|
Gerald has the ability both to write a short story with an
|
||
|
|
interesting plot and believable characters, and to evoke a
|
||
|
|
scene in the readers head - create a reality for the reader. This
|
||
|
|
second ability is, for me, what makes a good story truly
|
||
|
|
beautiful. In the second story of the book, "The Exile," a tale
|
||
|
|
of expatriate doctors in a small tropical hospital, Gerald makes
|
||
|
|
the setting come alive to where the heat and smells of the
|
||
|
|
tropics enveloped me while reading.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
The collection of very short essays at the end of the book,
|
||
|
|
"King Winter's House Arrest," are wonderfully done and add a
|
||
|
|
political dimension to the previous stories not so evident on
|
||
|
|
first reading. I especially liked the essay "Capitalism and
|
||
|
|
Wisdom" which, in the space of less than one page, Gerald makes
|
||
|
|
a number of interesting observations on the nature of truth and
|
||
|
|
wisdom in capitalist and state socialist societies.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Maas' drawings are also very well done. I loved the cover art=FE
|
||
|
|
an inversion of the Romulus-Ramus myth where a woman is
|
||
|
|
suckling 2 wolf cubs. The art works, like the stories, are
|
||
|
|
simple, beautiful, and worth the time to get to know.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
By way of endorsement, I'm ordering the other 2 books of the
|
||
|
|
series - shelling out $12 of my own money. -R.C.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
HOW TO SHOPLIFT?
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
How To Steal Food From The Supermarket by J. Andrew Anderson
|
||
|
|
(Loompanics Unlimited, POB 1197, Port Townsend, WA. 98368,
|
||
|
|
1993) 63pp. $10.00 paperback.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The author of this book, who happens to be a security guard
|
||
|
|
for a supermarket, has to some degree an understanding as to
|
||
|
|
the "ethics" of shoplifting: "Theft, of course, is a crime. But
|
||
|
|
people sifting through dumpsters behind supermarkets that sell
|
||
|
|
Cycle 3 is also a crime, ethically speaking. Which is the
|
||
|
|
larger crime" (p.2). But that doesn't discourage him from
|
||
|
|
"doing my job"; "I know how people shoplift food...I arrest the
|
||
|
|
ones who do it wrong" (p.3); "If I find something [shoplifted
|
||
|
|
merchandise], he's going to jail." (p.43).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The actual how-to content of How To Steal Food ranges from
|
||
|
|
clipping coupons out of news papers to "Full-Fledged, Hard-
|
||
|
|
Core, Stick-It-In-Your-Pants-And-Walk-Out-The-Door Shoplifting"
|
||
|
|
(p.41); However, the insight and strategies offered in this
|
||
|
|
book do not go much beyond the point of common sense
|
||
|
|
shoplifting and practicing general caution when stealing.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I suppose this book could be of some use to those who haven't
|
||
|
|
the foggiest idea of how to shoplift. As for the rest,
|
||
|
|
brainstorming with a couple friends for an hour would
|
||
|
|
undoubtedly prove to be just as lucrative, if not more so. -
|
||
|
|
B.W.
|
||
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|
||
|
|
TEENAGE LIBERATION
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to quit school and get a
|
||
|
|
real life and education by Grace Llewellyn, (Lowry House
|
||
|
|
Publishers, POB 1014, Eugene, Oregon 97440-1014, 1991) 401 pp.
|
||
|
|
$14.95 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I've found (asking hundreds of kids) that most students hate
|
||
|
|
school, but are resigned to attend for their parents sake. What
|
||
|
|
is the real life and education that Grace Llewellyn claims to
|
||
|
|
assist teens to discover? We know that school is business, not
|
||
|
|
the real outside world. So How? says the Indian or curious
|
||
|
|
teen. They can't get much respect in or out of school that's
|
||
|
|
so boring. So we need a new bridge between parents and teens.
|
||
|
|
Do you know that home-schooling is legal in most states now!
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The Teenage Liberation Handbook is the most thorough current
|
||
|
|
guide for teens to drop out of school and into self-led
|
||
|
|
learning. Grace has a creative slant that can empower families
|
||
|
|
to do-it-themselves. Choosing learning fields, places and
|
||
|
|
pacing education, not for tests, but for life. Real learning
|
||
|
|
is lifelong as needed. She assumes each teen is unique, has
|
||
|
|
initiative and real emotions, and that cooperation is far
|
||
|
|
better than competitive schooling. It takes courage for teens
|
||
|
|
and parents to reverse their dependence on public schools, to
|
||
|
|
trust free learning, instincts and awareness.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Dropping out of school is still controversial. But it can be
|
||
|
|
more creative than we imagined, if families switch to home
|
||
|
|
education using the whole community to learn essentials. This
|
||
|
|
book is valuable for all home-schoolers, especially the new
|
||
|
|
ones. Grace was inspired by John Holt and his Growing Without
|
||
|
|
Schooling newsletter about home-education. She gives 100's of
|
||
|
|
quotes, examples and resources. The vast and growing (mostly
|
||
|
|
underground) home education movement can support millions of
|
||
|
|
students at home to explore nature, relationships and skills
|
||
|
|
valuable to self and cooperative community.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Most teen-students think about and doubt dropping out is a
|
||
|
|
real choice. But the gaps between public school rules and the
|
||
|
|
outside world of media, home and nature are so vast now that
|
||
|
|
students must deny most of reality to attend classes. Students
|
||
|
|
believe (or pretend to) that they don't know what they need to
|
||
|
|
learn to grow up aware, skilled and healthy. Then there's the
|
||
|
|
big contradiction that parents expect teens to act grown-up,
|
||
|
|
but not have any adult powers (voting, owning, driving, sexing,
|
||
|
|
learning, moving-out, drugs, etc.) of choice due to the age-of-
|
||
|
|
consent laws that restrict and/or punish youth for breaking
|
||
|
|
"safety" laws that keep adults in power over them. Grace grace-
|
||
|
|
fully details the many delicate and potential areas of self-
|
||
|
|
schooling in communities and at home with parents help.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Perhaps a growing generation of bright self-regulating
|
||
|
|
learners will lead us out of our garbage of pollution, fear and
|
||
|
|
crime into the Aquarian age of cooperation, creativity and
|
||
|
|
love. Teens can learn far faster and deeper out of school, than
|
||
|
|
in classrooms, if they want to and still have their natural
|
||
|
|
curiosity to discover the patterns in the universe. -M.S.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
OTHER TITLES RECEIVED
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
A Goose-Step from Chains by Keith A. Dodson (One Tree Press,
|
||
|
|
3472 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA. 90808, undated) 30pp.
|
||
|
|
poetry pamphlet, no price listed.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The Poor Man's James Bond, Vol.1 by Kurt Saxon (Atlan
|
||
|
|
Formularies, POB 327, Harrison, AR. 72601, 1988) 477pp. $18.00
|
||
|
|
large format (8=ABx11) paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
(See related review by Toni Otter under the title of "Survival
|
||
|
|
for what?" in Anarchy #29/Summer 1991, p.7.)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Educational AIDS unattributed (Plagiarist Press, 221 West
|
||
|
|
Benton St., Iowa City, IA. 52246, 1992) 12pp. mini-pamphlet
|
||
|
|
(available from publisher for two 29=9B stamps)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Pr=82cis de L'Alliance Universelle (L'Alliance Universelle, 73
|
||
|
|
Avenue de la R=82sistance, B.P. 923, 83000 Toulon, France, 1992)
|
||
|
|
48pp. pamphlet, no price listed.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Personal Recollections of the Anarchist Past by Georges Cores
|
||
|
|
(Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London WC1 3XX, England,
|
||
|
|
1992) 18pp. pamphlet, no price listed.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Clipped Coins by Constantine Caffentzis (Autonomedia, POB 568,
|
||
|
|
Williamsburgh Station, Brooklyn, NY. 11211-0568, 1989) 246pp.
|
||
|
|
$9.00 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Counterfeit Currency (Loompanics Unlimited, POB 1197, Port
|
||
|
|
Townsend, WA. 98368, 1990) 140pp. $15.00 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
War Tax Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Support from
|
||
|
|
the Military, 4th Edition by Ed Hedemann, edited by Ruth Benn
|
||
|
|
(New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia,
|
||
|
|
PA. 19143; War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette St., New York,
|
||
|
|
NY. 10012, 1992) 131pp. paper. No price listed.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
When Workers Decide: Workplace Democracy Takes Root in North
|
||
|
|
America edited by Len Krimerman and Frank Lindenfeld (New
|
||
|
|
Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA.
|
||
|
|
19143, 1992) 308pp. $16.95 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Fear At Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment by
|
||
|
|
Richard Kazis and Richard L. Grossman (New Society Publishers,
|
||
|
|
4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA. 19143, 1991) 306pp.
|
||
|
|
$14.95 paper.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Putting Power in its Place: Create Community Control by Judith
|
||
|
|
Plant and Christopher Plant (New Society Publishers, 4527
|
||
|
|
Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA. 19143, 1992) 137pp. 9.95
|
||
|
|
paper.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
We Gave Away a Fortune: Stories of People Who Have Devoted
|
||
|
|
Themselves and their Wealth to Peace, Justice and a Healthy
|
||
|
|
Environment by Christopher Mogil and Anne Slepian with Peter
|
||
|
|
Woodrow (New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave.,
|
||
|
|
Philadelphia, PA. 19143, 1992) 182pp. $14.95 paper.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The Political Poems by Michael Sheridan (Self-Published, MCS)
|
||
|
|
unpaginated, 8=ABx11 paper, no price listed.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
The Real State of the Union 1993 by Michael Sheridan (Self-
|
||
|
|
Published, MCS) unpaginated, 8=ABx11 paper, no price listed.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Nu Wirdz by Michael Sheridan (Self-Published, MCS) unpaginated,
|
||
|
|
8=ABx11 paper, no price listed.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Boomer: Railroad Memoirs by Linda Niemann (Cleis Press, POB
|
||
|
|
8933, Pittsburgh, PA. 15221, 1990) 252pp. $12.95 paper.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Duel in Peru: A 3-Act on the Shining Path by S. Colman (Dawn
|
||
|
|
Press, POB 02936, Detroit, MI. 48202, 1993) 125pp. $12.95 8=ABx11
|
||
|
|
photocopied in binder.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Tekscourge by Derek Chisholm (Self-published, Derek Chisholm,
|
||
|
|
POB 281, Chattanooga, TN. 37401, 2nd Ed. 1993) 40pp. pamphlet,
|
||
|
|
no price listed.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Petersbourg by Michel Donnegan (c/o Actualit=82s, 38 rue
|
||
|
|
Dauphine, 75006 Paris, France, 1993) 18pp. pamphlet, no price
|
||
|
|
listed.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
Tales from the Cass Corridor by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB
|
||
|
|
02936, Detroit, WI. 48202, 1991) 248pp. $19.95 8=ABx11
|
||
|
|
photocopied in binder.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
AIDS (Or Other Ills): Recovery, Prevention, the Natural No-Drug
|
||
|
|
Way by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936, Detroit, WI. 48202,
|
||
|
|
1986) 152pp. $19.95 8=ABx11 photocopied in binder.
|
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