[LAF] Massive Sale on Books from Autonomedia

Sat Aug 19 04:42:47 UTC 2006

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

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Massive Sale on Books from Autonomedia

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

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

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

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

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

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Some new books you'll find in the bookstore:

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

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

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

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