The Dance of Death Luther Blissett 1999 768p 6 x 9 1517 Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy, known mysteriously as ‘Q.’ In this brilliantly … Continue reading Q
3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection Yves Férmion 2002 280p 6 x 9 Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, and new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack … Continue reading Orgasms of History
Umberto Eco 1980 536p 5 x 8 The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the … Continue reading The Name of the Rose
Mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria Silvia Federici 2004 367p 5 x 8 Marx dice el capitalismo entra en la historia cubierto de sangre desde el recinto de las tierras comunales, la esclavitud de los europeos al salario, y el exterminio y la esclavitud de los africanos y americanos nativos. Foucault observa el mismo period de … Continue reading Calibán y la bruja
Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici 2004 393p 6.5 x 9.5 Marx says that Capitalism comes into the world dripping with blood from the enclosure of common lands, the enslavement of europeans to the wage and the extermination and enslavement of africans and native americans. Foucault looks … Continue reading Caliban and the Witch
Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. $7-15 Other works involving fredy perlman, civilization, the wild, technology, recuperation, progress, primitivism, heresy, patriarchy, first nations struggles, peasant revolts, monarchs, nature, slave … Continue reading Against His-Story, Against Leviathan
Peter Shaffer 1974 145p 5 x 8 Equus. . . . This is a play about a disgruntled child psychiatrist who takes on the case of a young man who’s blinded six horses. Over the course of trying to treat the youth, everything is called into question for the … Continue reading Equus
Helen Ellerbe 1995 227p 5 x 8 How did the Church manage to stay alive and a major player on the political and imperial level for 1500 years? Ellerbe explains: by crushing or absorbing everything that stood in its way. While Dark Side of Christian History covers a lot of the same … Continue reading The Dark Side of Christian History