Archive of posts filed under the books/zines category.
in the charts again
whole lotta dub
Wicked curry over the weekend with a bunch of miscreants including Howard Slater of Break/Flow and infopool. Howard gave me a photocopy of his text “Lotta Continua: Roots Music and the Politics of Production”, which I think is destined for a future issue of datacide. It’s great stuff – just the sort of thing I …
frenzy of the text
“What harm can a book do that costs a hundred crowns? Twenty volumes of anything will never make a revolution – it is the little pocket pamphlets that they should fear.” – Voltaire (1694 – 1778) After the mass destruction of zine culture in favour of the morass of online information, some hardcore paper fetishists …
Q
At last, the Wu Ming Foundation’s novel “Q” is being published in english by Random House. I have been looking forwards to this for ages. Wu-Ming is a collective of people from Italy who used to be involved in the Luther Blissett Project. Their website has just been updated and is well worth checking. You …
John Eden: Paper and Vinyl Clearout
Some minor updates to things we have for sale on the site. Should be adding some more stuff to this shortly and probably bunging some old records on ebay. That way, I can buy some new stuff! It’s interesting people are still ordering the AAA booklets. I stand by a lot of stuff in them, …
Julia Callan-Thompson
getting closer… or further away?
New at Practical History: The Angry Brigade – John Barker A review of ‘Anarchy in the UK: The Angry Brigade’ by Tom Vague, published by AK Press Edinburgh in its English Psychogeographic Series, 1997 This review of Tom Vague’s book on The Angry Brigade was first published in ‘Trangsgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration’ (Spring …
black sun blissett
I’ve been thinking about the role of mythology in politics a bit recently (as you do). It all kicked off when I got Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s Black Sun – Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity out of the library. The book deals with post war esoteric fascist movements and goes into quite a …