ricardo dominguez on 27 Feb 2001 18:00:08 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Autonogram 5: 16 Ounces of Grass only $20! |
Greetings one and all -- Here's your occasional book report and general update from your hard(ly)-at-work comrades at Autonomedia. In this email, you'll find new book listings, price breaks on our calendars, new features to the Autonomedia web site, and updates on books-in-progress. For list removals, please check the note at the end of the email. * * * * * "Grass: the Paged Experience" accompanies "Grass, the Movie," the 2000 award-winning documentary film by Ron Mann. Through vast archival imagery, new graphics by Paul Mavrides, and Mann's text, the book navigates through the history of marijuana prohibition in the US, focussing both on the legislative and extra-legal machinations developed and also on the popular media manipulations employed to legitimize these restrictions. The book also includes essays by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on pot and film, Dr. John Morgan on pot and music, and Keith Stroup of NORML on the past and present politics of pot, and is introduced by actor/activist Woody Harrelson. The book is in full color (even the text pages!), and reproduces the feeling of the film quite well. If you saw the film and wanted to see it again, or more likely, if you enjoy marijuana but wonder why the film never made it to your local corporate moviehouse, you're sure to enjoy this wonderful book. http://www.autonomedia.org/grass is our web page featuring the book. http://www.grassthemovie.com is a Flash-heavy site promoting the film. * * * * * Voyeurism, edited by Kathy High and Maria Venuto with guest editors Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak and Nayan Shaw, is the latest issue of FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts & Communications, distributed by Autonomedia. VOYEURISM includes articles, interviews, and artist pages by over 60 different artists from the U.S. and Canada, and explores the complex nature of the topics of voyeurism, surveillance, and the pleasures and risks of watching. 336 pages, 7.5x10.5 inches paperback, $15. You can find this and other issues of FELIX on our website by following the links in the bookstore to Autonomedia Distribution. * * * * * If you still need a calendar for 2001, our Saints and Sheroes are still available, and we've cut the price to $4 each, no limit. If you don't know the calendars, check the web site or email me for details: ben@autonomedia.org * * * * * If you haven't checked http://www.autonomedia.org in a while, have a look soon. We've added an interactive calendar of local events, and our message board has had lots of activity on such topics as DIY media, Pacifica and WBAI, political origins of the Black Block, and the continuing Zapatista struggle. Additionally, the radical linkbank contains nearly 1500 links to global autonomous movement in all its facets, organized both geographically and by topic. For all of these features, click on the various picture icons on the left side of our home page. * * * * * Among our spring releases are the following show-stoppers: "LAB U.S.A." by Kevin Pyle, a 160pp. graphic investigation into the history of government and commercial medical research on disenfranchised subjects, particularly prisoners and low-income populations. Due out in April. "I'm Still Thinking" by Miro Stefanovic, a 192pp. collection of political cartoons by this dissident Serbian cartoonist. "Hacktivism," edited by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, an insider's history of electronic civil disobedience by the perpetrators of various FLOODNET actions. "Digital Resistance" by the Critical Arts Ensemble. Essays on tactical resistance in the digital realm from the collective authors of "Electronic Disturbance," "Electronic Civil Disobedience," and "Flesh Machine." "Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles of the Fourth World War," by the Midnight Notes Collective. This book looks both at Mexico's Zapatista revolution directly, and at its enlightening and heating effects on the new social struggles elsewhere against the latest forms of capitalism, neo-liberalism and globalization. * * * * * _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold