APOCALYPSE CULTURE II
Edited by Adam Parfrey
Forget those other apocalyptic prophesies - here are the current real
apocalyptic documents.
This book breaks the editor's arrogant promise that no sequel edition
would
ever appear. Herein find over 62 new articles and 200 photos and
illustrations
delineating the FORBIDDEN ZONE, the psychic maelstrom that everyone
knows exists
but fearfully avoids.
With contributions by: Adam Parfrey, Michael Moynihan, Peter Sotos,
George Petros, David Woodard, Colin Wilson, Trevor Brown, Kadmon, Boyd
Rice, Irv Rubin, Issei Sagawa, James Shelby Downard, Jim Goad, Chad
Hensley and many others.
Feral House
$18.95
458 pgs.
Illustrated
APOCALYPSE CULTURE I
Edited by Adam Parfrey
This book is a startling, absorbing and exhaustive tour through the
nether regions of today's psychotic brainscape.
Feral House
$14.95
362 pgs.
Illustrated
Think of the Self Speaking / Harry Smith -
Selected Interviews
Edited by Rani Singh
Open this collection and read about one of the most
unusual minds of this or any other age as he holds forth on a
variety of subjects. Here you will find the flavor and
texture of Harry Smith's conversation, his rambling, obscure,
luminous, cantankerous genius. These interviews cover a
quarter century and touch on the full range of Smith's
activity as groundbreaking experimental filmmaker, obsessive
collector, folk music anthologist, visionary painter, student
of native American lore, anthropologist, cosmographer,
alchemist, hermetic scholar, occultist and classic American
eccentric.
Elbow/Cityful Press
$16.95
186 pgs.
Crass Art and Other Post-Modernist Monsters
The Art of Gee Vaucher
A collection of paintings, collages & drawings etc...
Through Gee Vaucher's collected work in this book, we can
witness the brave journey she has traveled as artist and
activist. Through magazines, newspapers and especially
through Crass (the band) her work entered the world not
through the gallery - but as part of a voice that is
connected to other voices who have said 'NO'! to the great
lie of the mass media!!!
A K Press
$24.95
101pgs.
Illustrated
Word Virus - The William S. Burroughs Reader
Edited by James Grauerholz
& Ira Silverberg
Word Virus follows major themes in the Burroughs oeuvre,
through Naked Lunch and the cut-up novels to Cities of the
Red Night and the Cat Inside. Edited and complimented by
Grauerholz's illuminating biographical essays. Word Virus
places the work in context of the life - for scholars and
general readers alike.
Grove Press
$16.00
530 pgs.
Last Words / The Final Journals of William
S. Burroughs
Edited & Introduction
by James Grauerholz
Last Words: The most intimate work Burroughs ever wrote.
Culled from journal entries of the last nine months of his
life, it spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal
memoir, and fiction.
Classic Burroughs concerns - rants on U. S. drug policy,
contempt for the state of the human race, his love for his
cats - permeate the book. He breaks into classic
"routines" and provides frequent commentary on
whatever he is reading - from high literature to low-brow
thrillers. The "Old Man" emerges as frequently
comical, sometimes meditative, always engaged - a commentator
on the state of the world and the self.
Grove Press
$25.00
273 pgs.
Hardcover
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll,
Pataphysician
By Alfred Jarry
"Pataphysics...is the science of that which is
super-induced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the
latter's limitations..... Pataphysics will be, above all, the
science of the particular, despite the common opinion that
the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will
examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the
universe supplementary to this one...Pataphysics is the
science of imaginary solutions..." Alfred Jarry
Exact Change
$13.95
139 pgs.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ACEPHALICA
Edited by George Bataille
Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts and
the Encyclopedia De Costa
The ideas of George Bataille (1867-1962) are being
increasingly recognized as offering vital insights into whole
areas of human existence, and over the last few years most of
his important theoretical and fictional texts have appeared
in English. Yet Bataille's thought is complex, and his books
make few concessions to the reader. The first series of texts
here, however, were written for a wider audience by Bataille
and his friends, in the form of a dictionary, and they
provide a witty, poetic and concise introduction to his
ideas.
The Critical Dictionary appeared in the magazine edited by
Bataille, Documents. The second set of texts, the Da Costa
Encyclopedique was published anonymously after the liberation
of Paris in 1947 by members of the Acephale group and writers
associated with the Surrealists. Both cover the essential
concepts of Bataille and his associates: sacred sociology,
scatology, death and the erotic, base materialism, the
aesthetics of the formless, sacrifice, the festival and
politics of tumult etc, a new description of the limits of
being human. Humor albeit sardonic, is not absent from these
remarkable re-definitions of the most hetrogeneous objects or
ideas: Camel, Church, Dust, Museum, Spittle Skyscraper,
Threshold, Work - to name but a few.
The Documents group was celebrated for joining together
artists, authors, sociologists and ethnologists in a literary
and philosophical project. The Acephale group was more
mysterious, even its membership is only vaguely known, and
its activities remain secret. The origins of the Da Costa
only became known in 1993, the present volume reveals for the
first time its principal compilers: Robert Lebel, Isabelle
Waldberg and Marcel Duchamp, even so, the identity of the
authors of a large part of it remain unknown.
Atlas Press $19.99 172 pgs. Illustrated
TEARS OF EROS
By George Bataille
This book is the culmination of George Bataille's
inquiries into the relationship between violence and the
sacred. Taking up such figures as Gilles de Rais, Erzebet
Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre
Breton and Voodoo practitioners, Bataille reveals their
common obsession: Death.
This essay, illustrated with artworks from every era, was
developed out of the ideas explored in several of Batailles
other books. In it he examines death - the "little
death" that follows sexual climax, the proximate death
in sadomasochistic practices and death as part of religious
ritual and sacrifice.
City Lights Books $15.95 213 pgs.
Illustrated
ANTHOLOGY OF
BLACK HUMOR
By Andre Breton
This is the first publication in English of the anthology
that contains Breton's definitive statement on black humor,
one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his
provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While
some of the authors featured are already well-known to
American readers - Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll
and Baudelaire among them, many others are sure to come as a
revelation.
The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift and
Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich
Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud to the manic
paranoia of Dali, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred
Jarry to the off-hand hilarity of Apollinaire. For each of
the forty-five authors included, Breton has provided a
biographical and critical preface, situating the writer and
the work in the context of black humor - a partly macabre,
partly ironic and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton
defined as "a superior revolt of the mind."
City Lights Books $18.95 356 pgs.
THE BURROUGHS
FILE
By William S. Burroughs
Trenchant writings by the sardonic "hombre
invisible," William S. Burroughs, perpetrator of NAKED
LUNCH and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant
and hilarious straight-faced reports on life are mostly from
scattershot publications in obscure places, foreign and
domestic. This collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive
world-view and his sense of America's underside.
City Lights Books $12.95 227 pgs.
Illustrated
WILLIAM
BURROUGHS: EL HOMBRE INVISIBLE - A PORTRAIT
By Barry Miles
William S. Burroughs, described by Norman Mailer as
"the only living American novelist who may conceivably
be possessed of genius." This unique underground
visionary has lived up to these words. His bestseller NAKED
LUNCH, which sparked a precedent-setting obscenity trial, was
hailed by NEWSWEEK as a masterpiece. His life, perhaps more
than his work, is the stuff of legend: He became infamous for
the bizarre, accidental shooting of his wife and for the
explicit sexual nature of his writings. Miles explores
Burroughs' true cultural significance. Neither traditional
biography nor academic study, the book is an introduction to
Burroughs through his life and writing.
Hyperion Books $12.95 263 pgs. Illustrated
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