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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.

Detourned Comix

OD040// Coal EPCoal’s self-titled debut is a crushing rejection of the hive-mind colony of your scene, your values and your reality, not an escape, not a distraction, but a true-vision of the world in all its grotesque, hate-filled glory. Listeners will step away from this record as from a Coal show, cleansed, purged and altered.After initial flirtations with the project being a ‘live electronic act’ proved unsatisfying, Anthony Arcana & Oliver Kohlenberg chose to morph the project into something unbound: hoarse-barked, one-line lyrics, mutant chainsaw guitar feedback and drums that sound like a nightmare, Kronenberg trash-compactor collide to form their own world. Coal’s sound is a blurred vision of influences, fusing elements of post-metal, hip-hop, black-metal, American hardcore, sludge, doom, jungle and trap into something that feels cathartic, potent, whole and unique. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1932912895/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://instrumentsofdiscipline.bandcamp.com/album/coal">Coal by Coal</a></iframe>

Now Monster X on Opal Tapes/Black Opal, four  tracks of heavy experimental electro!

Walter Benjamin in Czech language

Walter Benjamim in hebrew. More infos soon

Theodor W. Adorno: Stelle su misura - L'astrologia nella società contamporanea. Einaudi 1985 - Novo Politecnico 142

Theodor W. Adorno: Prismas - crítica cultural e sociedade, Sao Paulo 1998

Walter Benjamin: Il dramma barocco tedesco. Ricerca letteraria - serie critica 11. Einaudi 1971

Benjamin e Scholem: Teologia e utopia (Briefwechsel 1933-1940). Einaudi Paperbacks 175. 1987

Walter Benjamin: Critiche e recensioni (Gesammelte Schriften - Band III: Kritiken und Rezensionen). Einaudi Paperbacks 99. 1979

Walter Benjamin: Sull'hascisch (Über Haschisch). Einaudi Nuovi Coralli 269. 1975

Michael Schneider: Das Ende eines Jahrhundertmythos - Eine Bilanz des Staatssozialismus. KiWi 400, Taschenbuchausgabe 1996

Michel Roger: Envers et contre tout. De l'Opposition de Gauche à l'Union communiste. Editions Ni patrie ni frontières, 2017.

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Extremely limited lathe cut. 7 track compilation feat. Kojitô, Polemik Viktor, Jean Bender, OlgaZzz, La Fosse (Moldav Et Blafar), Monsieur Connard, Nauac ‎– Marasm 35. Note that the - previously unplayed - copy that I listened to skipped in the second half of track A2.