[Autonogram] New editions of old books! Radical bookfairs! Vague promises! Etc.!

[Ben at Autonomedia]

Hello, friends --

Just a few short announcements to make you 
get out your maps and 
compasses, and maybe check out a book or 
two...

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Autonomedia's in attendance at THREE 
bookfairs in the next three 
weeks! Come to one or all of them -- they 
promise to be splendid 
affairs, the lot, and because I enjoy 
obsessiveness as much as the 
next guy, I'll gladly give a special award 
to anyone who DOES show up 
at all three. Here are the details:

1. The Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Bookfair is 
this weekend (OCTOBER 11 
and 12) in Baltimore, put on by the Black 
Planet Radical Bookstore. 
For details, a schedule of events, and 
directions, go to their web 
site at 
http://www.blackplanetbooks.org/bookfair.h
tml . Look for me 
behind the piles of discount "War in the 
Neighborhood"'s, and pick up 
a 2003 Radical Saints or Sheroes calendar 
(they'll probably be free 
if you ask passionately).

2. The Cheap Small Press Bookfair promises 
a room full of 
stimulating, unusual, and certainly cheap 
books and printed ephemera 
in Brooklyn on OCTOBER 19, as part of the 
DUMBO Arts Festival. 
Nothing at this fair will be more than 
$10, and the list of 
participants will cause you to spout verse 
until people start looking 
at you with jealous awe. For details on 
this event, go to 
http://www.odetogo.com , and then go to 
the corner of Front and 
Washington Streets in DUMBO, Brooklyn, 
between 11 and 5 on Sunday the 
19th.

3. I heard such terrific stories about the 
New Orleans Radical 
Bookfair last year that I nearly moved 
down for good. This year's 
fair should be ten times as good, 
certainly quite free with the 
jubilalia, and probably late to begin and 
ambling to an end, in that 
New Orleans way. The event happens on 
OCTOBER 25 at the Contemporary 
Arts Center, and they've got about a 
million different small presses 
and zines participating, as well as an 
artists-book show called the 
Babylon Lexicon happening at the same 
time. 
http://www.nolabookfair.com will have the 
answers to all your 
questions around this event, and look out 
for the french-fry po-boys.

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Just in time for all these events, we've 
got new editions of two 
classic titles finally ready to walk out 
the door.

http://www.autonomedia.org/taz
New TAZ! Hakim Bey started writing the 
essays and communiques in 
T.A.Z. about twenty years ago, and they 
still manage to shake people 
up in unexpected ways. We ran dry the well 
on this book last year, 
and rather than do a standard reprint, 
Hakim Bey agreed to write a 
new introduction for this edition, 
reflecting on the life the book 
itself has had over the years, with an eye 
towards how it has 
matured. This edition also includes the 
full text of "Aimless 
Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos 
Linguistics", which originally was 
published as a pamphlet by Xexoxial 
Editions in Wisconsin as an 
extension of material in TAZ. There's a 
web page for the book at the 
above link, with more material to come in 
the near future.

http://www.autonomedia.org/pirateutopias
New Pirate Utopias! Peter Lamborn Wilson's 
1995 book about European 
merchants who tired of their Christianity, 
converted to Islam, and 
became pirates on the high seas might make 
you reconsider your 
career, or at least encourage you to 
change your wardrobe. Or, if you 
already ARE a pirate (sorry for the pun!), 
perhaps there's a secret 
history of social organization that you'd 
do well to learn. In any 
case, renowned piratologists Christopher 
Hill, Marcus Rediker, and 
Peter Linebaugh all liked "Pirate 
Utopias," and the new edition is 
now available, with added material about a 
17th-century Dutch pirate 
who, along with his wife, raised all kinds 
of hell in nascent  New 
York City.

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As for vague promises, well, the 2004 
Jubilee Saints calendars and 
the 2004 Sheroes and Womyn Warriors 
calendars are nearly ready; 
slightly further down the pike are the 
cyberfeminist collection "Next 
Protocols" by the Old Boys Network, a 
reprint of "Scandal: Essays in 
Islamic Heresy" from Peter Lamborn Wilson, 
Silvia Federici's 
long-awaited study of the female body in 
the transition to 
capitalism, "Caliban and the Witch", "I Am 
Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!: 
Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition", 
and plenty more where that 
came from. Stay tuned to these occasional 
Autonograms for notices of 
availability, and other surprises.

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options.

bests,
Ben at Autonomedia

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