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(An Open Entrance To The Shut Palace Of) Wrong Numbers

Franklin Rosemont

Like everyone else, you dial and receive Wrong Numbers. But what do you make of them? And what do they make of you? What do these calls, universally regarded as irritating, tell us about the...

Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous

Franklin Rosemont

20 essays by one of contemporary surrealism's major poets and theorists, Chicago Surrealist Group co-founder Franklin Rosemont. These essays focus on the ways in which surrealist perspectives have...

Surrealist Subversions

Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States

Ron Sakolsky

A dazzling, dizzying, and encyclopedic (over 700 pages, not including the bibliographies and index) collection of the output of the Chicago Surrealist Group, and the movement that grew from them,...

The Relevance Of Rexroth

Ken Knabb

A biography of poet, anarchist, wobbly and pioneer of the Beat movement Kenneth Rexroth and analysis of his work by noted American situationist Ken Knabb. Rexroth lead a fascinating life that wound...

The Wandering of Humanity

Jacques Camatte

Having begun a critical reassessment of Marx and the Italian ultra-left in the face of the events of the late 60's, Camatte and his comrades were led to conclude that "what is invariant is the...

Society Of The Spectacle

Guy Debord

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept in print continuously for the...

Orgasms of History

3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection

Yves Fremion

Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated...

Hobohemia

Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago

Frank O. Beck

From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood known as Towertown was the vital center of an...

The Golden Book of Springfield

Vachel Lindsay

Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) was the most intensely romantic US poet of his generation. Less well known is the fact that Lindsay was also a radical critic of the white supremacy, greed, misery,...