Theatre of the Oppressed

Augusto Boal

"One of the most revered figures in world theatre ... the liberation theologian of theatre."—The Guardian"Should be read by everyone in the world of theatre who has any pretensions...

A User’s Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible

Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

This sixty-two-page booklet was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by students in the UK against the government cuts, and intended to...

Deadly She-Wolf

Assassination at Armageddon (book and cd)

Fred Ho

Before "the old Fred Ho" died on August 4, 2006 of advanced colo-rectal cancer (before "the new Fred Ho" emerged), he had created an amazing body of radical, popular avant garde operas and...

RE/Search #4/5

V Vale

William Burroughs, Brion Gysin & Throbbing Gristle talk about advanced ideas involving the social control process, creativity and the future. Interviews, scarce fiction, essays: this is a manual of...

Poetry As Insurgent Art

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

From the groundbreaking (and betselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of Americus, Book I in 2003, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has, in more than thirty books,...

The Art of Free Cooperation

Geert Lovink

This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new...

Beat

Christopher Felver

There has never before been a book filled with this many photographs of equal Beat Era personalities -- the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat...

Polemics

Anselm Hollo

Poetry and polemics have typically gone in opposite directions -- the fine flame of the sonnet, blue cone in orange, versus the raging blazes of oratory. But opposites are alike in every way but...

From Bughouse Square To The Beat Generation

Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage - Founder & Janitor Of The College Of Complexes

Slim Brundage

A unique combination of tavern, university and nonstop wild party, the College in its heyday (1951-1961) was for many years Chicago's outstanding outsider outpost. The writings collected here by...