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CONTENTS NEW TITLES A Threat of the First Magnitude – 4 New People of the Flat Earth – 5 Go the Way Your Blood Beats – 6 A Life Lived Remotely – 7 Mad Skills – 8 The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion – 9 From a Whisper to a Shout – 10 Where Will We Live? – 11 Decolonial Daughter – 12 Anti-Politics – 13 Authentocrats – 14 Red Set – 15 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS – 16
me in the late fall/early winter of 1962, a document circulating among members of the Communist Party sed in the Chicago area, titled “Whither the Party of ” It was signed “The Ad Hoc Committee for Scientific st Line.” This was not the work of factionally inclined mrades, but rather something springing from the r-intelligence imagination of the FBI.
hreat of the First Magnitude tells the story of the FBI’s fake organization and the informants they used to penetrate the levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, olutionary Union and other groups labelled threats to the security of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
AARON J LEONARD CONOR A GALLAGHER
FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962 – 1974
Threat of the First Magnitude is a riveting story of FBI lies and t is a fascinating history that is also a prescient warning. ading this book, I can’t help but wonder how things might rned out if the government’s informants had never been memthe groups they helped destroy.” Ron Jacobs, author of The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Underground and Daydream Sunset: The 60s Counterculture 0s.
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on J Leonard is a writer and historian. Conor A Gallagher is a her and educator. Their book Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret America’s Maoists was published by Zero in 2015.
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A THREAT OF THE FIRST MAGNITUDE FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union – 1962–1974 Aaron J Leonard, Conor A Gallagher You might also like:
9781910924471 No Less Than Mystic: A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left – John Medhurst
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A Threat of the First Magnitude tells the story of the FBI’s fake Maoist organization, The Ad Hoc Committee for a Scientific Socialist Line, and the informants they used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labelled threats to the internal security of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As once again the FBI is thrust into the spotlight of US politics, A Threat of the First Magnitude offers a view of the historic inner workings of the Bureau’s counterintelligence operations – from generating “fake news” and the utilization of “sensitive intelligence methods” to the handling of “reliable sources” – that matches or exceeds the sophistication of any contenders. Aaron J Leonard is a writer and historian. Conor A Gallagher is a researcher and educator. Their book Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists was published by Zero in 2015.
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NEW PEOPLE OF THE FLAT EARTH Brian Short
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After ten years in a Zen monastery, Proteus knows it’s time to leave. A troubled, solitary man, he knows what he seeks is not to be found sitting in meditation. His problem is that, during his time there, he’s discovered something strange: he has the ability to connect with a mysterious, silent, metallic object he calls Mosquito, which gives him a flimsy sense of purpose. So when Mosquito disappears one day, Proteus can’t bear the loss, and sets off in pursuit of answers, leading him to in-between worlds where things do not quite hold together, in and out of the boundaries of time. Playful but unapologetically challenging, New People of the Flat Earth is a breathtakingly original novel that defies categorisation.
9781910924006 The Isle of Minimus – M K L Murphy
Brian Short lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest, where in addition to writing he also composes music and makes avant-garde films. He’s worked in a handful of fields, such as graphic design, film and baking, but his favourite by far is constructing labyrinths. 5
9781910924716 138pp PB 197 x 130 mm Mono £8.99/$14.95 February 2018 Sex and Sexuality, Gender Studies, Memoirs World rights available Available in eBook: 9781910924730
GO THE WAY YOUR BLOOD BEATS On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire Michael Amherst
Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire. A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves – the sex of whom remain obscure – the book demonstrates the universalism of human desire. Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art – a mysterious, creative force. Michael Amherst is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. His work has been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, White Review and Contrappasso. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and is currently a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. 6
9781910924785 290pp PB 197 x 130 mm Mono £8.99/$14.95 February 2018 Politics, Memoirs World rights available Available in eBook: 9781910924792
A LIFE LIVED REMOTELY
Being and Work in the Digital Age Siobhan McKeown You might also like:
If work is hell, what is working from home? Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of the transition to the digital age through our relationship to work. Following the author’s journey as she left her 9-to-5 for the world of freelancing and working remotely, it outlines and reflects on what it means to work from home, how it affects our daily lives and our relationships, and how it is tied in to the development of the internet and our increasingly digitised world.
9781910924945 Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media – Marcus Gilroy-Ware
A Life Lived Remotely provides a moment’s pause in a world of fastpaced communication, offering critical reflection on what it means to come of age and develop a career alongside the internet. Siobhan McKeown is a writer and remote worker based in Whitley Bay in the North-East of England. Since 2010 she has worked online in the tech industry, as a freelancer, a contractor, and as an employee. She studied philosophy at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Warwick, and non-fiction writing at City University. 7
9781910924761 300pp (approx.) PB 197 x 130 mm Mono £8.99/$14.95 March 2018 Music, Cultural Studies, Memoirs World rights available Available in eBook: 9781910924778
MAD SKILLS
MIDI and Music Technology in the XXth Century Ryan Alexander Diduck
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Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir, Mad Skills tells the story behind the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, aka MIDI, through the twentieth century’s kaleidoscopic lens. Guiding us across one hundred years of musical instruments, and the music made with them, it recounts the technical and creative innovations that led to the making of the most vital, long-standing, ubiquitous, and yet invisible music technology of our time.
9781910924969 The Music of the Future – Robert Barry
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Ryan Alexander Diduck is an author, scholar, lecturer and critic. Diduck’s writing has appeared in The Wire, The Quietus and Fact Magazine. He lives in Montréal.
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THE TURKISH PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC EXPLOSION Anadolu Psych 1965–1980 Daniel Spicer You might also like:
9781910924815 Maurice El Médioni: A Memoir, From Oran to Marseille (1938–1992) – Maurice El Médioni, Max Reinhardt (ed.), Jonathan Walton (trans.)
In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown phenomenon of Anadolu Pop. But that was just the beginning. Through the second half of that turbulent decade, Turkish rock warped and transformed, striking out into wilder and stranger territory – fuelled by the psychedelic revolution and played out over a backdrop of cultural, social and political turmoil. The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to an end by a right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered by Western crate-diggers. It’s a tale of larger-than-life musical pioneers with raging political passions and visionary ideas ripe for rediscovery. Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster, improviser and poet based in Brighton, UK. 9
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FROM A WHISPER TO A SHOUT Abortion Activism and Social Media Elizabeth Kissling
Abortion remains legal in the US, but access has been slowly eroded since prohibition was ruled unconstitutional nearly fifty years ago. Simultaneously abortion remains culturally stigmatised – it is kept secret and presumed shameful. But feminist activists are working to increase access and challenge this stigma. Numerous organisations and campaigns are doing so using the internet, social media, and intersectional feminist networks. From a Whisper to a Shout takes a closer look at four of these organisations – #ShoutYourAbortion, Lady Parts Justice, #WeTestify, and The Abortion Diary – and how they are integrating feminist tactics, social media, and political strategies to challenge abortion stigma and promote abortion access. Elizabeth Kissling is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Communication at Eastern Washington University, and is the author of Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation (Lynn Rienner, 2006). 10
DAWN FOSTER
WHERE WILL WE LIVE?
WHERE DID THE HOUSING CRISIS START AND HOW WAS IT ALLOWED TO DEVELOP UNHINDERED?
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WHERE WILL WE LIVE? Dawn Foster By the same author:
Housing in the UK is in crisis. But how did we get here? And what will the future look like if people can’t afford to rent, let alone buy property? The UK needs a radical solution: a huge programme of social housebuilding, a crackdown on private renting, but also a culture change across the country that ends the fetishization of housing and the financialization of bricks and mortar. Houses should not be seen as assets, but as homes which become part of our personal and community histories.
9781910924020 Lean Out
Where Will We Live? tells the story of how we got into this situation, assessing the economic, social and human impact of the ongoing crisis in UK housing. Dawn Foster is a writer and journalist. She writes a regular column for The Guardian. She was the 2014 IBP Young Journalist of the Year and was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize. Her book Lean Out was shortlisted for the 2017 Bread and Roses Award. 11
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DECOLONIAL DAUGHTER
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son Lesley-Ann Brown In Decolonial Daughter Trinidadian-American writer and activist Lesley-Ann Brown explores, through the lens of motherhood, issues such as migration, identity and nationhood, and how these relate to land, forced migrations, imprisonment and genocide for Black and Indigenous people. Having moved to Copenhagen from Brooklyn eighteen years ago, Brown writes letters to her son, attempting to contextualise her and her son’s existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world. Through these letters, Brown writes the past into the present – from the country that has been declared “The Happiest Place in the World” – creating a vision that is a necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought and sold. Lesley-Ann Brown is a Brooklyn-born writer, educator and activist who currently lives in Copenhagen. She studied writing and literature at the New School for Social Research and has worked as a freelance journalist for Vibe and The Source. Brown created the critically acclaimed blackgirlonmars blog and founded Bandit Queen press. 12
ELIANE GLASER
ANTI-POLITICS ON THE DEMONIZATION OF IDEOLOGY,
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AUTHORITY AND THE STATE
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ANTI-POLITICS
On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State Eliane Glaser Politics as we know it is dead. Populism is disrupting established democracies everywhere. Anti-politicians are taking office. The public is thoroughly depoliticised. Yet the political Right grows ever stronger. In Anti-Politics: On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State, Eliane Glaser takes stock of how we got here and where we’re going, putting forward answers to some of the critical questions of our anti-political age: Is the “death of politics” simply an inevitable sign of the times, going hand in hand with climate change, technological development and postmodern malaise? Or is it the intentional result of right-wing engineering? And how should the Left respond to this rise of anti-politics? Eliane Glaser is a writer and BBC radio broadcaster. She is a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University and a research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Get Real (2012) and writes for The Guardian, the New Statesman and The Independent. 13
JOE KENNEDY
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THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF SENTENTIOUSNESS
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AUTHENTOCRATS
The Culture and Politics of Sententiousness Joe Kennedy By the same author:
9781910924242 Games Without Frontiers
In contemporary Britain, a lot has been said about what it is that “real people” want politically. Forgotten by elites and sick of globalisation, so the story goes, they demand patriotism, respect for the military, assurances on defence, and controls on immigration. In trying to meet these supposed wishes, politicians attempt to appear normal, salt-of-the-earth, authentic. Authentocrats examines the function of this “authenticity” in a centrist politics which, paradoxically, often defines itself as cosmopolitan, technocratic and opposed to populism. Casting a doubtful eye over – amongst other things – latter-day James Bond films, contemporary nature writing and stand-up comedy, Authentocrats suggests that the sooner we can break with the sententiousness of a skewed conception of authenticity in aesthetics and politics the better. Joe Kennedy teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His academic work focuses on the postwar continuations and mutations of modernism in Britain, and on critical theory. His first book, Games Without Frontiers, was published by Repeater in 2016.
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RED SET
A History of Gang of Four Jim Dooley You might also like:
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In the autumn of 1976, two young British Fine Arts students travelled to New York on a university grant, but instead of studying ended up staying with one of the city’s pioneering punk journalists, visiting the Museum of Modern Art by day, and hanging out in punk epicentre CBGBs by night. It is from this trip that Gang of Four emerged. Blending revelations from interviews with the band conducted by the author with snippets from newspaper articles and record reviews, Jim Dooley tells the history of Gang of Four as they remember it. From their days in art school through countless tours, records and reunions, Red Set is the definitive history of one of Britain’s greatest and most influential bands. Jim Dooley studied at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he investigated the links between politics and popular culture and wrote an MA thesis on music piracy. Jim has conducted numerous interviews for reggae fanzines, written articles for the BEAT, and is the author of the Small Axe Guide to Dub (Muzik Tree, 2010). 15
NO LESS THAN MYSTIC
MAX: IT SHOULD ONLY BE
DOWN WITH CHILDHOOD
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THE HOLY LAND
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THE WEIRD AND THE EERIE
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SHARD CINEMA
SPLATTER CAPITAL
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THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES REVOLUTION
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GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
THE PSYCHOPATH FACTORY
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IN DEFENCE OF SERENDIPITY
SMILE IF YOU DARE
SPECTERS OF REVOLT
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LEAN OUT
DISCOGNITION
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SHOOTING HIPSTERS
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ODE TO BROKEN THINGS
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THE AESTHETICS OF DEGRADATION
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