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Peter Tradowsky – Stigmata: Destiny as a Question of Knowledge
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartStigmata―the spontaneous appearance of bodily marks in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ―have long been a controversial phenomenon. Well-known stigmatics such as [...]
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Victor Serge – Notebooks, 1936-1947
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAvailable for the first time, Victor Serge’s intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary’s life, from his liberation from [...]
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Jean Baudrillard – Spirit of Terrorism
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious. […]
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D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlthough Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick [...]
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Jean Baudrillard – Cool Memories II: 1987-1990.
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed “France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism” and “a sharp-shooting Lone [...]
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More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMasculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]
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Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]
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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]
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Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we […]
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Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]
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Isobel Harbison – Performing Image
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison [...]
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Nam June Paik
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartExplore the ground-breaking work of 20th-century, avant-garde artist Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, and discover his impact on the digital age. Nam June Paik was one of […]
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Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRobert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp’s often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, [...]
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She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartShe Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the [...]
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Mrs. Florence Aadland – The Big Love
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Big Love is a Hollywood nightmare. It tells the story of Errol Flynn—a fading, alcoholic movie star—and the underage dancer-actress Beverly Aadland. The narrator? Beverly Aadland’s [...]
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Rocker Magazine – Issue #8
$14.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartROCKER is a digest published in the great city of Philadelphia, PA, USA. It focuses on harsh noise, ambient, experimental + In this issue: • on the cover: Nick Forte’ […]
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Title TK
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]
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Georges Perec – Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User’s Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to […]
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Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]
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Matthew McNaught – Immanuel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian [...]
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Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]
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Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]
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Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]
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Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other [...]
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Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, [...]
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Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book reassesses Miles Davis’ “electric period” and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase – which encompasses the entire [...]
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Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]
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Cosey Fanni Tutti – Re-Sisters: The Lives & Recordings of Delia Derbyshire Margery Kempe & Cosey Fanni Tutti
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who [...]
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Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]
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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartYears after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]
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Material Noise: Reading Theory as Artist’s Book
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Material Noise, Anne Royston argues that theoretical works signify through their materiality—such nonsemantic elements as typography or color—as well as their semantic content. Examining works [...]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSoma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]
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Jerusalem!: The Real Life of William Blake
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart‘And did those feet in ancient time …’ The hymn ‘Jerusalem’, with its famous words by William Blake, stirs our hearts with its evocation of a new holy city built [...]
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From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLong before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest […]
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these […]
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Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics & Literature
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites. But what if, instead, they were fundamentally linked? In her clear, insightful, laugh-out-loud funny debut, Once Upon a Prime, [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected […]
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Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
$12.00 | Used Items, Print, Book Add to cartWhen Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]
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John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo one knows more about everything―especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling―than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics [...]
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Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to [...]
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Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, […]
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Lydia Davis – Essays Two
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection […]
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Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEarly science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior [...]
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Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”–Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in [...]
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Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAs the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]
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Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the kingdom of Ayodhya to the isle of Lanka, we are transported to a land that has inspired morality and spiritual tradition for thousands of years. Rama, the king […]
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Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the […]
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Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo―a life suffused with scandal and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction