Monday, 8 July 2013
Archive from “A Secret Location” Small Press / Mimeograph Revolution, 1940s–1970s
Left to right: Bill Margolis, Eileen Kaufman, Bob Kaufman, and unidentified man printing the first issue of Beatitude.
We are pleased to offer for sale a captivating and important research collection of little magazines and other printed materials that represent, chronicle, and document the proliferation of avant-garde, underground small press publications from the forties to the seventies. The starting point for this collection, “A Secret Location on the Lower East Side,” is the acclaimed New York Public Library exhibition and catalog from 1998, curated by Steve Clay and Rodney Phillips, which documented a period of intense innovation and experimentation in American writing and literary publishing by exploring the small press and mimeograph revolutions.
The present collection came into being after the owner “became obsessed with the secretive nature of the works contained in the exhibition’s catalog.” Using the book as a guide, he assembled a singular library that contains many of the rare and fragile little magazines featured in the NYPL exhibition while adding important ancillary material, much of it from a West Coast perspective.
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Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure
When Yasiin Bey was force-fed Guantánamo Bay-style – eyewitness account
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure.Obama urged to halt Ramadan force-feeding at Guantánamo
Liquid City
For 400 years, New York has embraced, spurned, ignored, harnessed, and feared the water that made its greatness possible. Now our relationship must get even more complex.
♪♫ Bernie Worrell Orchestra w/ Mike Watt & Lili Hayden - Maggot Brain
At the Bootleg Bar in LA January 22, 2012
Sunday, 7 July 2013
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero
How NSA surveillance destroys privacy and undermines our sovereignty
[...] The largest black chamber ever constructed is being built now, in Utah. Called the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, its storage capacity is estimated to exceed a yottabyte, the largest unit of data that computer scientists have. That’s around half a sextillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, more than enough to store everything that’s ever been written, as well as every email and phone call to be made in the coming century. Australia is building its own sister system at HMAS Harman just outside Canberra, partly to accommodate the data that will flow to us from Utah. The question now is: what will these black chambers be filled with? And how?
♪♫ Underground in Africa
Deep spiritual jazz produced under the heat of the Apartheid regime in South Africa by independent label owner Rashid Vally.
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