Anarchist StudiesBiannual£6.95 White • Horse • Vol. 2 #1 - |
Features on Mirbeau & anarchism, the power-persuasion-identity network & confederal municipalism including reviews of Kelman, Castoriadis among others. Vol. 2 #2 - Articles entitled ÒEthics, anarchy & sustainable developmentÓ; ÒKropotkin, self-valorization and the crisis of MarxismÓ and ÒPeter MarshallÕs NatureÕs WebÓ plus the usual reviews Vol. 3 #1 - The Spring Ô95 edition has stuff on the first anarchist daily newspaper, Malatesta & the anarchist revolution and anarchists, violence & social change, as well as the in-depth review section. |
"Common Sense"Biannual • £4.50 • Edinburgh CSE |
Ground breaking autonomist Marxist journal. Over a hundred pages of articles, reviews and occasional poetry and fiction.
No.17: Zapatistas, the politics of debt & citizenship & more
No.16: Nazism & the working class, Bosnia, the Scottish roots of civilisation and Toni Negri
No.15: On Thomas Paine, open Marxism, the relevance of Marxism today. No. 14: Water Privatisation, Cleaver on 'New Social Subjects', Burnham's 'The State and Global Capital', part 2 of Bologna's 'Marx & money', Holloway's 'The Freeing Of Marx' and reviews. Please note previous issues are £3.95. No. 13: 'Noize Music: the Hypostatic Insurgency', Bologna on Marx, money & crisis, Bonefeld on the crisis of Keynsianism, and articles on structuralism. No.12: includes a Republican analysis of the general election, Part two of Sergio Bologna - 'The Mass Worker In Italy', Murdo MacDonald on Art and the Social Construction of Self, reviews and poetry. No. 11: features the economics of the Final Solution, 'Marxism & Common Sense', Marxism & class struggle and part one of Bologna. No. 10: has articles on the gulf War, Poll Tax, student debt crisis, Cleaver on gauchos and more. |
"Documents"Three times a year • £9.95 • Self |
150 pages plus, US contemporary art journal - interviews, discussions, articles all beautifully produced. |
"Edinburgh Review"Biannual • £5.95 • Polygon |
More like a fat paperback book, spined, couple of hundred pages. Contains a mixture of new fiction and poetry, with essays, reviews etc. No. 89 has work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Freddie Baer, Gulfwatch Papers responses, Hayden Murphy, Victor Cousins etc. No. 88 includes a large section by, and about, Patrick Geddes - ecologist, educator and visual thinker; new essays, poetry and fiction by James Meek, Alison Armstrong and Karen Whiteson. No. 87 includes the Gulfwatch Papers, new work from peter plate and Jim Ferguson and features on Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. No. 86 includes Frans Masereel woodcuts, Ukrainian writings and poetry from Carlos Alvarez. No. 85 includes new writings from Scottish men, Larry Winters, Tom Leonard on William Carlos Williams etc. No. 84 includes a major essay by James Kelman on the philosophy of Chomsky, RD Laing etc. |
"Felix"Yearly • £4.95 • Standby Program |
Yet another beautifully crafted compendium of the arts, culture and politics. Distributed by Autonomedia, so you can gauge roughly where it's coming from. A typical mix of graphics, art, photomontage, interviews, essays and reviews. Issue 1: 'Censoring The Media': includes various stuff on censorship, especially how it relates to gays and lesbians, some practical video activist alternatives to TV, Desert Storm Press ground rules etc. Issue 2: 'A Cross-Circuit Videologue': includes masses of articles on video, production and the media, as well as the revolution televised, new work from young artists etc. Issue 3: 'Post-Literate': Includes a variety of essays grouped around the themes 'The Future Can Be Simulated', 'Transgressive Media', and Exchange - The Nature Of Narrative', along with a slew of reviews, and artist pages. |
"Gauntlet"Biannual • £8.95 • Self |
Truly inspiring, thought-provoking examination of the boundaries of free speech, expression, and writing. Each issue is largely grouped around a specific theme, with a series of articles, interviews, essays and graphics to match, though every issue contains too a lively set of reports, rants, reviews and letters. Seriously in-depth and intelligent coverage of a whole host of taboo and tendentious topics. Issue 4: Media Manipulation - includes amongst others, media pandering to Black cultists, gays and the mainstream press, political manipulation of the media, and the serial card controversy. Issue 5: Porn In The USA - debating the pros and cons of pornography with Nina Hartley, Annie Sprinkle, Candida Royalle against the likes of Phyllis Schlafly and Jim Bramlett; plus exposes on Spike Lee and Madonna. Issue 6: Black Racism - does it exist? and why? Plus the art of Clive Barker, new politics of the religious right, erotic artists speak out with their art, more on porn etc etc. Issue 7: In Defense Of Prostitution - seminal issue in which prostitutes debate their choice of profession - from rape, police harassment and decriminalisation, to working conditions, choices and organising the profession. Issue 8: Cults - excellent articles and exposes on the likes of Scientology, the Moonies, AA and the like. |
"Index On Censorship"Several times a year • £7.99 • Cassell |
The international journal for freedom of speech, each issue covers a theme. Eg: October 1995 covers women and the state of sexual politics around the globe, in such areas as control over reproduction, economic development and cultural images of women. Contributors include Anita Desai, Fatima Mernissi, Adrienne Rich, Gore Vidal and Alice Walker. July 1995 looks "at the crisis of confidence in the UN as global peacemaker (?!!!) and protector of human rights (?!!!)". Contributors include Ayala Lasso, Nawal-al-Sadaawi and Wole Syinka May 1995 looks at the way histories are being invented in a "post-ideological", post-Cold-War world. Contributors include Martin Bernal, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jack Mapanje and Ernst Gellner. |
"Left Curve"Occasional • £5.95 • Self |
An American compendium of all that's best in culture and politics. A mixture of art, graphics, poetry, essays and articles."...original work by individuals, as well as cultural work that are integral, organic parts of emancipatory movements." No.19: Focusses on cultural identity and globalisation, from virtual ethnicity, to the US and Haiti. No.18: Includes a special on responding to the Strange New World Of Computer And Information Technologies, including new work from Israel/Palestine and Hungary. No. 17 includes the urban crises of the 90's, looking back on LA and the South Bronx; a critique of the term and concept "People of Color", the Third World Artist in the Post modern Age, Radical Women Writers of the 30's and the New Feminist Response and much more. No. 16 includes a special section on political prisoners - Leonard Peltier, remembering Attica, George Jackson et al -as well as Gulf War Aftermath, the Hollywoodization of Politics etc. No. 15 includes the struggle for Native American liberation, the excluded on Post modernism, The Left and Right in Culture Wars, the politics of Food Not Bombs etc.No. 14 includes an interview with Hungarian filmmaker Gyorgy Szomjas, photo-essay on Northern Ireland, Crime in America etc. |
"Lib Ed"Annually • £3.95 • Libertarian Education |
Still going strong. THE journal for anyone interested in education. History, news and analysis of the current play in education, both state, at home,and within the few remaining 'free' and radical private schools. Recommended for pupils, teachers and interested observers alike. |
"Midnight Notes #10"Occasional • £4.95 • Self/Autonomedia |
Midnight Notes latest superb collection of autonomist analysis. The theme of this issue is capitalism's attempts to remove any spatial, social or territorial power that we have in land, housing, community or urban geography. Articles include: The Debt Crisis, Africa and the New Enclosures; Israeli Ecological Imperialism; China; Reading Struggles Through the Media; Africa and Self-reproducing Automata; Squatting on the Lower East Side; Land Struggles in Zurich; and Jubilee. Essential reading. |
"ND"Biannual • £3.50 • ND |
A journal of cultural exchange, largely based around the mail art and industrial culture networks. Recent issues have included interviews with Left Hand Right Hand, the Hungarian instrument sculptor Victor Lois, the Chicago composer Jim O'Rourke, the Russian artist and visual poet Serge Segay, the Stallplaat label, the Berlin performance group Dead Chickens, pirate radio, audio reviews etc. Get the picture? |
"Processed World"Biannual • £4.00 • Self |
The journal for disgruntled workers. Largely based around white-collar/office/technology toil, but far broader in scope. A wonderful mix of essays, rants, spoofs, tales of toil, handy-tips for fighting back, poetry, reviews and more. Deservedly a legend in its own lunch break! Each issue is based loosely around a theme: Issue 33: The Info Highway/Zapatistas Issue 32: The Utopian Future Issue 31: Education Issue 30: Labour And Shit! Issue 29: Sabotage Issue 28: New Technology Again Issue 26/27: 'The Good Job' - special tenth anniversary issue Issue 25: Vacation Issue 24: Information/Travel & Leisure Issue 23: Production and Consumption Issue 22: Ecology Issue 21: Technology/Militarism Issue 20: Health Issue 19: Workplace Transience Issue 18: Sex |
"Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism."Quarterly • £3.95 • Self |
An all-star cast edit this serious new exploration of race and anti-racism. - 'Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity'. As you would expect from the likes of Lorenzo Erwin, Abdul Alkalimat, Noel Ignatiev, Christopher Day, Vron Ware et al, a series of thought-provoking essays, interviews, thoughts and reviews on race, identity, anti-racism and fascism and associated topics. An essential new addition to this most crucial of debates. Issue 2: includes John Garvey on multicultural education, Christopher Day on 'gangsta rap', Noel Ignatiev on 'Immigrants And Whites' and a lively symposium on 'Huckleberry Finn: Race Traitor'. Issue 3: includes 'Inside Prison Walls' by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, 'Reflections On The Comparative History Of Racism' by George Frederickson, 'The White Worker And The Labour Movement' by Noel Ignatiev, and articles by Mab Segrest, Maryon Gray, Phil Rubio and others. Issue 4: includes 'Manifesto Of A Dead Daughter' by Patricia Easkins, Joel Olson's 'Police Assisted Homicide', 'White Silence, White Solidarity' by Christine Sleeter, 'White Blues' by Paul Garon and reviews by Susan Pennybacker, David Roediger and Maryon Gray. |
"Rapid Eye 1"Occasional • £11.95 • Creation |
An expanded version of the original classic exploration of the margins of the apocalypse culture. Step inside to meet Kathy Acker, Burroughs, Crowley, Brion Gysin, Derek Jarman, Charles Manson, Psychic TV, Hubert Selby, Austin Spare, Colin Wilson, alchemy, Hitler and UFO's, mescaline, tattoos, piercing and much much more. Profusely illustrated throughout, THIS is the business. |
"Rapid Eye 2"Occasional • £11.95 • Annihilation |
As ever, lavishly produced and packed with the likes of Death Art, Neoism, Colin Wilson, numerology and serial killers, Alex Sanders, Paul Mayersberg, Timothy Leary, the other bisexuality, Mondo Film, Victor Bockris et al. |
"Rapid Eye 3"Occasional • £11.95 • Creation |
The latest instalment of new fact, fiction, photos and travels from the likes of William Gibson, Alan Moore, Malcolm McClaren, Kenneth Anger, Gilles De Rais, Stewart Home, Aids, Pornography, Soma and much, much more. As crucial, of course, as the previous two. Journals |
"Raven "Quarterly • £2.95 • Freedom |
Theoretical and discussion journal from Freedom. Each issue is based around a theme, and there are often good essays from some of the Freedom regulars (Colin Ward et al), as well as some new folks; reviews, debate etc. No.29: World War 2 No.28: Chomsky On Haiti/Bookchin No.27: Fundamentalism No.26: Science - 2 No.25: Religion - 1 No.24: Science - 1 No.23: Spain/Emma Goldman No.22: Crime No. 21: Women And Anarchism No. 20: Kropotkin No. 19: On Sociology No. 18: Anthropology, Anarchism and Africa No. 17: Use of Land No. 16:On Education No. 15: On Health No. 14: On Voting No. 13: Eastern Europe No. 12: On Communication No. 11: Class No. 10: Libertarian Education |
"Searchlight South Africa"Quarterly • £3.50 • Clio |
Superb comment, critique and analysis on, and in South Africa. Particularly refreshing is its critique of the ANC and PAC from a radical left viewpoint. This journal was instrumental in exposing the mutinies in the ANC camps in the mid-80's. Highly recommended. |
"Social Anarchism"Biannual • £3.95 • Self |
Contemporary anarchist thought from the U.S.A. Serious writing: critical texts, verse and good graphics. Always a hefty review section. |
"Society And Nature "triennially • £7.00 • Society And Nature |
Excellent new journal. Each issue presents new material from such vital stalwarts as Murray Bookchin, Janet Biehl and Takis Fotopoulos, as well as newer writers. Each issue is based around a theme: Issue 1: The Polis and Self Management Today - includes Bookchin on Land And City, and Libertarian Municipalism; Biehl on Women and the Democratic Tradition; John Clark on What Is Social Ecology; Daniel Chodorkoff on Social Ecology and Community Development amongst others. Issue 2: The Philosophy of Ecology - includes Clark on The Philosophy Of Social Ecology; Bookchin on Philosophical Naturalism and Recovering Evolution; Arne Naess on Deep Ecology And Ultimate Premises; Ward Churchill on An Indigenist Critique of Marxism. Issue 3: The State And An Ecological Society - includes Bookchin on The Transition To An Ecological Society, and The Meaning Of Confederalism; Biehl on European Greens: From Movement To Party. Issue 4: Feminism and Ecology-includes essays by Janet Biehl, L Susan Brown, Mary Mellor and Chaia amongst others, plus a dialogue on Marxism with Bookchin, Fotopoulous and Kalomalos. Issue 5: Nationalism And The New World Order - with essays by Chomsky, Bookchin, Castoriadis, Carol Boggs, Janet Biehl amongst others. Issue 6: Socialism And Ecology - with essays from Bookchin, Andre Gunder Frank, Takis Fotopoulos and John Ely amongst others. |
"The Baffler"Quarterly • £3.95 • Self |
An excellent abrasive, critical journal, rampaging through culture, from pop to corporate. While it has a good selection of quality fiction, poetry and art (a rarity in itself), best of all is the searing essays and features. These truly sparkle with wit, clarity and murderous dissection. Pick this up now. Issue 6: Is loosely arranged around the theme 'Business Culture and the Culture Business'. Essays evaluate in detail such features of modern corporate life as the cult of Leadership, the Re-engineering fad, the art of constructing a corporate press release, and the business evangelism of the Information Age. Pride of place of the new fiction goes to a lengthy extract from James Kelman's new novel 'How Late It Was, How Late.' |
"Total vol. 2"Occasional • £15.00 • Total |
Total acts as an forum for ideas that are a genuine alternative to the dogma of conformity. Each volume presents new graphics, interviews, photography, sounds and more, in the format of a paperback book, and a CD. This is the 'Body' issue, and to give it extra strength this 160 page paperback comes with a double length CD! All the usual, and not so usual jostle for space, including: The ABC's of Branding, Electrosex, Spontaneous Human Combustion, The Occultural Revolution, Robert Anton Wilson, Cyber-punk, interviews with Annie Sprinkle, Adam Purifier, Boy Rice, Survival Research Laboratories,and new work by Derek Jarman. And that's only the beginning. Really an essential investment you'll have to agree. |
"Unfiled"Quarterly • £10.00 • ReR Megacorp |
Excellent huge sourcebook challenging the assumptions of the mainstream, analysing the latest technological developments, drawing together the music/debates/theory and practice of contributors from all over the world. Current issue includes a definitive history of sampling by Hugh Davis, along with the ethical/aesthetic and legal ramifications by John Oswald, Chris Cutler, Negativland and Bob Drake. Also featured is Future Digital Technologies by Michael Gurzon, a History of Virgin Records by Steve Rickard, Re-Mixing by Giussepi Colli, Independent Music In South Africa by Warric Sony, and a hilarious, but sadly pointed guide on how to produce your own independent record, from recording to manufacturing and marketing. Essential. |
"Vague"Occasional • £3.50 • Self |
The first fanzine to make it glossy! The father of all, accept no imitators! Post-punk, lavishly produced, superb graphics, wicked cynicism, post-situ burnout. Art, interviews, articles, collage et al. No. 24: 'English Psychogeography'. Largely based around Portobello. A superb history of the area, its underclass, genesis, race riots, carnival etc, and its magnet effect on all types of avant-garde types, from the Clash to King Mob. Also includes Happy Monday, Stewart Home's latest, and Chelsea/Everton. No. 23 'God Told Me To Do It': Jon Savage Interview, Twin Peaks, Stewart Home/Richard Allen, Vagrunts, Music Is Dead - Long Live TV, Simon Ings interview, Sniffin Ralgex etc. No. 22 'Media Sickness (More Contagious Than AIDS)': Margi Clarke/Jamie Reid interview, Ralph Rumney interview, SI exhibition etc. No. 21 'Cyber-Punk': Pistols retro, pulp fiction, Jon Savage interview etc. No. 20: 'Televisionaries': Euroterrorism, football fanzines, Bob Black, Viz, Smile etc |
"Variant"Quarterly • £3.50 • Self |
Rather fine journal of "cross-currents in culture" - everything from film and TV, art practice, video and print, to critical thinking and political intervention. All with a critical edge. No. 14: A film/video special. No. 13 includes interviews with Genesis P Orridge, Brian Eno; articles on parapolitics, Moscow Art Now and New Queer Cinema, as well as project, media, print and audio reviews. No. 12 includes Harry Mathews interview, Women and Visual Pleasure, Extremes in Art East/West etc. No. 11 includes Despite TV, David Hall, Derek Bailey interview, Virtual Real Estate etc. No. 10 includes Calypso, Survival Research Laboratories, Sex and Censorship USA style, interviews with Keith Rowe and Lawrence Weiner etc. No. 9 includes the Situationist Legacy, Football Culture, Virtual Reality etc. |
"Verbal Abuse "Paperback • £4.95 • Self |
Staggeringly hip, yet thoroughly fine journal of the arts, from the radical end of the (largely) New York scene. Drags in a star-studded (often literally) cast, from today and yesteryear, including words, musings and graphics from the likes of Richard Hell, Malcolm McLaren, Blondie, Karen Finley, Chris Stein, Patti Smith, Crass, Genesis P Orridge, Alan Vega, Chi Chi Valenti, Diamanda Galas. Truly superb,and beautifully crafted. Get it now. |
"Wild Earth"Quarterly • £3.95 • Cenozoic Society |
David Foreman (ex- of Earth First!) & friends produce this weighty tome that provides articles & discussion on such topics as bio-diversity, the wilderness idea & land ethics, environmentalist strategy & the contradictions of sustainable development |
"Zone 3"Occasional • £24.95 • Zone |
The 48 essays in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances - the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk, a mirror image of the world or a reflection of the spirit. Each volume emphasises a particular perspective. Part 1 explores the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial, and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. |
"Zone 4"Occasional • £24.95 • Zone |
Part 2 covers the junctures between the body's 'outside' and 'inside' by studying the manifestations - or production - of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain and death. |
"Zone 5"Occasional • £24.95 • Zone |
Part 3 brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how organs or bodily substances can be used to justify or challenge the way human societies function and, conversely, how political and social functions tend to make the bodies of the persons filling them the organs of a larger body - the social body or the universe as a whole. |
"Zone 6"Occasional • £31.50 • Zone |
This volume explores the ongoing convergence of what were once the distinct worlds of the machine and the organism. Through essays, image-text projects, photographic dossiers and philosophic and scientific articles, Incorporations examines the increasing breakdown of the boundaries between biology and technology, and the social, cultural and political effects of this merging. Incorporations is about the diverse ways in which human beings are integrated into larger systems and processes of social and technological organisation, and the many ways in which the very meaning of the word 'life' has been reconfigured. Contributors include Paul Rabinow, JG Ballard, Felix Guattari, Donna Haraway, Paul Virilio and Peter Eisenman. |