"Essays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY. Expanded and Revised. "Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous." - H.P. Lovecraft "Poison yourself . . . with thought" - Arizmenda CONTENTS: Steven Shakespeare, "The Light that Illumi ..."
Shard Cinema by EvanCalderWilliams 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Watkins Media Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-910924-82-2, ISBN: 1-910924-82-2
"... wreckage.6 And in a more fitting confirmation of this pattern, consider a digital
image of apocalyptic Maidan made by Ivan Khivrenko, a video game artist and
illustrator, well before the riots there. It features a fallen angel statue, tattered
flags, ..."
Shard Cinema by EvanCalderWilliams Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2017 by Repeater ISBN-13: 978-1-910924-91-4, ISBN: 1-910924-91-1
"Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades, and how they have changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world.In a set of interrelated essays that range from the writings of early factory workers to the distributed sight of contemporary surveillance, Williams argues for deep links between the images we see and the hidden labors frozen in ..."
"This inaugural volume from Oslo Editions gathers edited transcripts from a series of talks held at the Mandrake, an artist-run bar in Los Angeles, on the theme of ''contra mundum'' or ''against the world.'' Taking its cue from Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, the contributors consider the collective potential of (anti)sociality and the possibility of building your own world. Subjects include the furniture of Donald Judd, ..."
"70. Dantec, Maurice. Cosmos Inc, trans. Tina Kover (New York:Del Rey, 2008) 21
. The echoes of the object-world of salvagepunk is intentional: Life After People
unintentionally lays the groundwork for a serious reinsertion of the human into
that landscape of idiosyncratic destruction and crumbling, even as it restricts itself
to imagining armadillos roaming a shopping mall or rats storming Vegas. For a
far-reaching and nuanced accou ..."
Combined and Uneven Apocalypse(Reprint) Luciferian Marxism by EvanCalderWilliams Paperback, 261 Pages, Published 2011 by Zero Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-84694-468-0, ISBN: 1-84694-468-6
"From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream and nightmare images of a global order gone very, ..."
Roman Letters by EvanCalderWilliams Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2011 by Oslo Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-9830773-1-2, ISBN: 0-9830773-1-2
"The second volume from Oslo Editions, Roman Letters is a collection of urgent missives addressed to unnamed friends, written from Rome by Evan Calder Williams. Initially intended to pick up the thread of ongoing conversations and debates, Roman Letters pursues theory by epistolary means, swerving through philosophy, travelogue, polemic, prose poem, speculative fiction and political reflection. Set against the backdrop of Berlusconi's It ..."
"Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth-century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present? "Communization" is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Southern California, and wherever the real abstractions of value that shape our lives are contested. Evolving on the terrain o ..."
"Among the most important books ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia, and capitalism, Towards a Gay Communism is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory. Decades later, Mario Mieli’s work continues to pose a radical challenge to today’s mainstream queer theory and politics. First published in English in 1980, this groundbreaking book is now available in an updated and unabridged English translation, ..."
Floods of Labor Italian Feminism's Fight for Wages for (and Against) Housework by EvanCalderWilliams and Maya Gonzalez (2035, Trade Paperback) by Maya Gonzalez, EvanCalderWilliams Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-180-4, ISBN: 1-78478-180-0
"Schism press brings you its first anthology, edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker. A collection of essays on beheading and cinema, with full color interior. Contents: Dominic Pettman, "What Came First, the Chicken or the Head?" - Eugene Thacker, "Thing and No-Thing" - Alexi Kukuljevic, "Suicide by Decapitation" - Alexander Galloway, "The Painted Peacock" - Evan Calder Williams, "Recapitation" - Nicola Masciandaro, "Decapitat ..."
"A critique of work in all its variations, from wage labor to psychoanalysis as a “working through” A notion that increasingly haunts contemporary political theory and practice as we all purposefully or pointlessly work more and more hours, “unworking” overturns the blind valorization of work and action and invites us to think about radical passivity and inactivity as aesthetic and political practices that question the modernist mantra o ..."
"The catalog combines a series of specially written texts, visual essays, film stills and film quotes, which examine time and image from different perspectives, and is thus to be understood as a direct continuation of Raven's special way of working. The book also includes movie quotes accompanying a series of weekly Raven-curated film screenings featuring both classic Hollywood films and independent feature films that inspired their arti ..."
"Jacques Rancière (born 1940) is one of the few living French philosophers to have established a significant dialogue with contemporary art. Rancière unites a politicized perspective on art's ability to rupture everyday life with his influential theorizations of education ("The Ignorant Schoolmaster") and politics ("The Nights of Labor"). His profile has ascended dramatically in the U.S. over the past decade, and this volume considers th ..."