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NEWS: In this section you find all the new releases - whether music or print - as they come out and/or are being listed in the shop.
This can include major re-stocks as well as older titles and second hand records or books. New titles are being added on a near-daily basis.

Theodor W. Adorno: Quasi una fantasia (Edition française). Gallimard 1982. Bon état.

Theodor W. Adorno: Kritische modellen. Van Gennep Amsterdam, ISBN90-6012-366-2, 1977

THeodor W. Adorno: Dialektyka negatywna, 1986, ISBN 83-01-05477-8

Theodor W. Adorno: Zargon pravsnjosti, Ljubljana 1972 Jargon der Eigentlichkeit auf slowenisch.

Max Horkheimer/Theodor W. Adorno: Oplysningens dialektik - filosofiske fragmenter, 1993 Dialektik der Aufklärung auf dänisch.

Theodor W. Adorno: Minimal Moralia (bosanski). Sarajevo 1987

Walter Benjamin: Angelus Novus - Saggi e fragmenti, Nuova Universale Einaudi 175, 1981

Walter Benjamin: Kunstwerket i reproduksjonsalderen og andre essays. En Fakkel-bok, Oslo 1975

Walter Benjamin: Werke Band 3 (日本語) Band 3 der japanischen Werkausgabe, Shobun-sha Publisher, Tokyo 1981

Maurice Brinton: For Workers' Power, AK Press, ISBN 1-904859-07-0 At long last, the collected works of the principle writer, translator and thinker of the Solidarity Group, one of the most active and influential libertarian socialist organisations of the 1960's and early 1970's. Includes writing on topics ranging from the Paris Commune to Paris 1968, via Willheim Reich, the Portugese Revolution, the Irrational in Politics, The Belgian General Strike of 1960, the Bolsheviks and Workers' Control and of course, the work of Paul Cardan/Cornelius Castoriadis. From the workplace, to the streets, to the bedroom, Maurice Brinton writes critically and honestly on the nuts and bolts of a free humanity, laying to rest the arguments against a genuinely libertarian socialism. Edited by David Goodway. AK Press, 2004.

Dave & Stuart Wise: Like a Summer With a Thousand Julys. Collected writings from Dave and Stuart Wise 1978-2008 ISBN 978-0993475719

This anthology brings together the three most widely translated, distributed and influential pamphlets of the Situationist International available in the sixties, along with eyewitness an account of the May events published in June 1968. These were 'On The Poverty of Student Life'; 'Totality For Kids' and 'The Decline and Fall of the "Spectacular" Commodity-Economy'. In addition it includes numerous documents, photographs, poster art and graffiti originating from Paris in 1968; it offers the reader not only a concise introduction to the ideas of the Situationists but also an insight into what Situationist material was readily available in the late sixties. Co-published by Dark Star Collective and AK Press, 2001

Guy Debord: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. In the Verso series "Radical Thinkers" 1998. ISBN 978-1-84467-672-9

Journal of the "transgressive" industrial culture type with a mixed bag of contributions, musically on a full length CD, in written form on 165+ pages. Edited by Robert H. King in 1993. Music feat. Controlled Bleeding, Soviet France, Lull (Mick Harris), Techno Animal, Nocturnal Emissions, Greater Than One and others. The book compiles articles and interviews (with Annie Sprinkle, Adam Parfrey, Stelarc, Mark Pauline) and also features Derek Jarman, Robert Anton Wilson, Adi Newton, erm... Boyd Rice, and more....

Short introduction to the aims, ideas and activities of Class War. Published by the Class War Federation, 1989/91.

On the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, paeans to the conquering Bolsheviks will be sung. But why? Why do so many Marxists and “leftists” still identify with the totalitarian and bureaucratic monster built on the backs and graves of the Russian working class? Could “victory” have been worth the price? The seeds of the Bolshevik dictatorship were sprouting in 1917 and the harvest still haunts us today. Bloodstained doesn’t only force us to reckon with the past but it demands we think more carefully about freedom, social change, and what we mean when we advocate a new society. The defense of history's obscene Leninist enterprises, once categorized as “actually existing socialism,” ends here. No more velvet-gloved hagiography. No more Lenins. Includes essays from Luigi Fabbri, Rudolf Rocker, Nestor Makhno, Iain McKay, Alexander Berkman, Maurice Brinton, Ida Mett, Otto Rühle, Emma Goldman, Barry Pateman, Paul Mattick, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Editors The Friends of Aron Baron are anarchists who bristle at the sight of hammers and sickles. Published by AK Press, 2017. You can read the introduction exerpted here.

Guy Debord:The Society of the SpectacleNewly translated and annotated by Ken KnabbBureau of Public Secrets, 2014ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5150 pages. The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical book of the twentieth century. This is the first edition in any language to include extensive annotations, clarifying the historical allusions and revealing the sources of Debord’s “détournements.” Contrary to popular misconceptions, Debord’s book is neither an ivory tower “philosophical” discourse nor a mere expression of “protest.” It is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves. This makes it more of a challenge, but it is also why it remains so pertinent nearly half a century after its original publication while countless other social theories and intellectual fads have come and gone. It has, in fact, become even more pertinent than ever, because the spectacle has become more all-pervading than ever — to the point that it is almost universally taken for granted. Most people today have scarcely any awareness of pre-spectacle history, let alone of anti-spectacle possibilities. As Debord noted in his follow-up work, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988), “spectacular domination has succeeded in raising an entire generation molded to its laws.”

Ken Knabb: Public Secrets - Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb 1970-1997

Guy Debord: Panegyric, Verso 1991, ISBN 0-86091-559-X

John Holloway: Change the World Without Taking Power, Pluto Press 2019 edition ISBN 978-0-7453-3932-0 This book is a profound search for a theory of social change. Through clearing away the cobwebs of revolutionary socialism, it renews the fight for the ending of capitalism and the construction of a new, fairer world.After a century of failed attempts by radical projects, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis. By asking the deepest questions about the nature of humanity, work, capitalism, organisation and resistance, John Holloway looks sharply at modern protest movements and provides tools for creating new strategies.First published in 2002, this book marked a shift in the understanding of Autonomism, Anarchism and Marxism, addressing the doubts activists had in their own political history and work, and helped form the perspectives of a new generation who are today changing the world.