Marx
Produced his cyberpunk programs for replikant flight by steampunk gaslight holed up in exile in the British library. Radically decoded the Kapital-imposed segmentation of terrestrial unlife into the political/ the economic/ the aesthetic/ the philosophical.
'Philosophers have interpreted the world, popists have talked about nimble basslines, the point is to change it...'
Posted by mark at August 10, 2004 09:11 AM | TrackBackit's actually rumoured that when Engels and Marx were living in Manchester, writing in the libraries around Chetham's and whatnot, Beardie and his mate - together with a young Tony Wilson then just starting out, cutting his chops on the entrepreneurial circuit - put on an all-dayer for the benefit of some Little Ireland residents at the city's Ye Olde Boardwalke and Gin Palace venue.
an embryonic ACR headlined.
fancy!
Posted by: scott at August 10, 2004 09:37 AMso I just found out what Continuum are going to do with their Athlone press goldmine:
give them new covers, make them smaller, and slash the price to 7 or 8 or 9 quid
including Libidinal Economy, AO and TP, Difference and Repetition, Logic of sense, Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida blah de blah, Bataille on Nietzsche
it'll be 12 books in September followed by 4 a month
Delueze on buses! Lyotard lollypops!
I'm so happy now,
let me pit in a plug for 'Eclipse of Reason' by Max Horkheimer
I haven't read it yet, that's why.
Posted by: oliver at August 10, 2004 04:24 PMLyotard lollypops!
LUV IT!!
Posted by: scott at August 10, 2004 11:06 PMDoes this mean that we can get a cut-price ATP and force it into Luke's hands Oliver?
Posted by: mark at August 11, 2004 01:20 AMBazin ... Bazin. How could I have forgotten to mention Bazin?
And Henri Langlois.
Posted by: Carter M at August 12, 2004 01:23 PM