death of a magazine

a womans magazine goes defunct
big whoop right

funny
thats the same feeling
guys get
when looking at pornography

burn em all down

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digital haves digital havenots

article
will rise in selfpublishing leave worlds
digital havenots behind

under a progress paradigm
who gives a fuck about havenots

theyre something you throw
money at to alleviate
your guilt

but they have a funny way
of rising up
of striking back

we dont need your tech

all your propaganda
in service to make us
feel robbed of agency

there is no smartphone

who are you
if you dont have a facebook
if you dont have an ebook
if you dont have the app for that

"If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible." - johnny mnemonic by william gibson

whoa

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forward implies progress whereas were really rearranging

after what looks to our audience
like a brief hiatus
we are relaunching
this blog

as the offical arm
of forbidden books press

our plan is to publish books
on 100% home recycled paper
hand-bound
on a home made printing press
built from scavenged parts

lofty
yes
if you think of
digging in the garbage
as lofty

which yknow
you should

our structure
is a collective of volunteers
rag & bone folks
hippies
book lovers

the books will be free
the distribution will be free
the production will be free

or as near possible
as we can make it

point being to challenge
premise
that all things must come at a cost
suck on it capitalism
its a labor of love
in the face of ebooks & crapjects

we will accept solicitations at
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on this blog we will continue to publish

information on our projects
on the publishing industry in general
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springtime mothafuckas

its spring
you know what
that means

gratuitous sex basically

we here at
forbidden books publishing
are quite

excited

about spring
can you tell

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it is time for a new secret plan

april for writing
may for projects

this

fig28a freedom of the press belongs to those who own one

this

fig28b tree soup

& then...?

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up to

been busy
this month
so far
with

secret plans

fig27a the way we get by

trust me
there are more
plans to come

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tell me whos at war with whom exactly

rnc st paul sept 2008

fig26a is that militarization or what

obama in minneapolis feb 2013

fig26b people get the leaders they deserve

weapons of war have no place in our streets

i dont think
the right people get that memo

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get to it then

id write a review
of contradictionary
but they beat me to it

Review - those who can, write; those who can't, write reviews. Writing reviews is the surest shortcut to a sensation of power for those who lack the dedication necessary to create something of actual worth. In passing judgement on others' work, the reviewer experiences a fleeting high of self-importance cheaper than any other.

i think they wrote that just to stave off the reviews

there follows a eightpage
howto guide on
the fine art of coarse criticism
it was like the rest of the book

alternatively funny & depressing

for example
if my friends didnt write reviews
of good stuff
how would i know what to do
with my time

but my own reviews
shit

luckily
ive got more
important things
to do

well excepting for the fact i guess
that most everything
is done for us nowadays

we cant but be
spectators

right?

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grammar nazis fuck off

random people ive

misfortunatley run cross

seem take up the mantle

grammar nazi

like its cute

like its ok

beating folks over the figurative

head

smudging them into language ghettos

lettin em fend for theyselves

in cut throat intern camps

its called grammar shaming

exhibit 29,666-y to the 3rd i have a bad feeling about this

just because you spout back

whatever rules were shoved

downthroat at whatever

grade or secondary echelon

doesnt make you cool

doesnt make you hip

a language dudnt have rulllles

it has conventions

but people cant let

there be fun

in language

cant just let 

anyone

run amok with

commune

ication

that would be

chaos

nevermind that

ye olde english

ran hundreds of years

before samuel beckett

& noah webster

just fine

or that lexiconigrapherists

just make shit up

according to how they see language used

no we need to have like they got

one of them central committees of language

like in france

right

wait

shit

with no apologies to the dead kennedies

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rout words

government
&
management

same root word

ment
meaning literally
mental

more specifically
fantasy or delusion

the fantasy of governing
the delusion of managing

or worse
being managed governed

a righteous fallacy

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against what is said

i went ahead
ordered
contradictionary

because i confess
i love a passionate spirit

also

Orders placed right now receive a free bookmark and pencil, limited to 1,000 copies, to celebrate the book's release.

christ

fig25a first i converted an hour of my life into cash & then i converted the cash into a book two pencils & some bookmarks

do i really need
a pencil that says
a weapon with which to free speech
apparently that answer
is

what a shithead

fig25b hypocrisis

maybe this is what
their critics mean
when they accuse crimethinc
of being lifestylists

not that theres anything
wrong
with wanting a life
of consensus & freedom
but then

this isnt that
this is just the merch

might as well have bought
a damn anarchy keychain
at damn hot topic

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why you cannot dislike facebook

once again
tni hits the proverbial
nail in the balls

Negative sentiment – disliking – is asymmetrical in its power to shape consumer’s opinions of a brand: for every 10 likes, 1 dislike could tear a brand apart.

go ooooon

But we are not allowed to dislike. And herein lies a way out of the Like Economy. Dissent, dissensus, refusal are not easily afforded in Facebook. Dissenters have to work for it: they have to write out comments, start up a blog, seek out other dislikers. They are not lulled into slackivism or “clickivism,” replacing the work of activism with clicking “like” on a cause as if the sheer aggregate of sentiment will make someone somewhere change something

i am a selfstyled
disliker
of all the hundreds of folks
ive known
i am one of three
to ever opt out
of the facebooks

ive long hated it
first the bougie elitism
with which it left
alumni of my school
out of its loop

later its sicklysweet
commercialization
anything commerce
picks up with such a frenzy
is to be

deeply

distrusted

but what a great picture
amirite

fig23a death to myspace

bloody brilliant phrase
sovereign consumer too
because it can never be you
personally
it is an abstraction
you personally
are a servant
just like all the rest of us
from the c suite to the pee moppers

we serve
the idea
that nothing is free

not even freedom

i gave my facebook profile to a homeless man

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a bandit gang writ large warning the wire spoilers within

fig23a you can sleep easy

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men, is ruled by the command of a leader, and is held together by a social pact. Plunder is divided in accordance with an agreed upon law."
- St Augustine

fig23b roberts rules say we gotta have minutes

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

fig23c many ways to play the game

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
- Max Stirner

fig23d quiet violence in the merikan desert

"I have my own army in the NYPD - the seventh largest army in the world."
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg

fig23e military surplus for the war on terror or immigrants or whatever

"So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all those who refuse them more money."
- Lysander Spooner

fig23f cmon books are you really gonna go there - yeah i went there

"For if the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the state, if it were convinced that the state is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the state would soon collapse to take on no ore status or breadth of existence than another mafia gang."
- Murray Rothbard

fig23g once theyve stopped working for the state theyre just dudes with a sweet ride

"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
- Richard M. Nixon

fig23h damn people think they can just use their own bridges whenever they feel like it

"Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."
- Frederic Bastiat

fig23i stop resisting

"You may think you belong to a big gang, you may be 50 people, even 100, but we have 32,000 in our gang. It's called the metropolitan police."
- Chief Inspector Ian Kibblewhite

fig23j see also a list of countries by size of police force

surely there is data to be considered here

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
- Charles De Montesquieu

fig23k the more translucent the window the more invisible the state

that
did not take as long
as i thought it would

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in which a review also contributes much

how often
do you read a review
better than most books

Punk was making up life for yourself, punk was inventing yourself, and punk was inventing the people around you, too, inflating them to the size of Gods or perhaps just cartoons. Punk was a scene and scenes are a form of myth-making.

and

Too often, stories about youth told by people who are not young focus, incorrectly, on romantic love. But traditional, romantic love is not what defines our formative years.... People would mistake Hell and Verlaine for brothers, Hell recounts. The mistake is exciting because they aren’t. Their sameness is trained, chosen, rather than ordained from birth. This kind of love is a rebellion, a freedom from the strictures of home and family. Punk is friendship, not love. It is the friend with whom we are literally or figuratively cutting class and hiding behind the gym, smoking and making plans to run away. In counter-cultures that refuse and reject patterns of domesticity, tradition, and adulthood, we define ourselves far more by strange friendships, by relationships that mimic not the love our parents were (or were supposed to be) in, but the camaraderie we had with our childhood best friends.

what book could

do that justice

oh well
ill read it anyway

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enough is enough you don't have to suffer any more

the following document
is the sixth declaration of the selva lacandona
from the zapatistas
published in 2005

yknow in some ways
we owe to them the existence
of any resistance

fig22a the inclusion of womens rights
a particularly good inclusion
for a machismo society

to neoliberal hegemony

this piece of correspondence
is unique in its humble language
thorough analysis
empathy

accessibly
you see
you feel
tangible connection
to the plight
of the people
our economy
crushes

che
said merikans
are lucky
living in the belly
of the beast
we are uniquely situated
to relieve the anguish
of millions
billions

but i see it as a responsibility
a challenge

yeah
just as soon as we figure
out

what we can do
that would make a difference
at all

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news from across the pond

theres a great occupation
going on in sussex

you wont hear about it yet
in mainstream merika news
if ever
because occupations
are like
so 2011

& foreign news is meaningless
unless someone is blowing
up merikans

but once again id like
to point out
the loverly bbcs take
or well
supt grenville wilson
of what i can only assume
is the sussex pd

when officers arrived at Sussex House there was some resistance to their pressure and some coins were thrown.... At this point force could have been used, such as batons, by the officers but a decision was made for officers to step back from the situation for the safety of the protesters....

hot damn if that aint
the language of the patriarchy
i dunno what is

you know i oughtta beat your ass

i just picture
officer walker from the wire
sorry thats as good a quality
as i could get for a link

we should all be so grateful
when we are not abused
by police

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one lazy fuckin book review

i admit a certain guilty pleasure
in crimethinc
their periodical rolling thunder
is uh how should i say
less confusing
than normally obtuse
anarchist ranting

see here & here

seriously
what the fuck

anyway
i enjoyed rts bit
about the 08 rnc
looked for myself
in the pictures

no dice
no matter

so what if they tend to paint
an overly rosy picture
of their effectiveness
& numbers

i mean its propaganda
in the best way
marxists cant wont talk
like this
wont ever
win peoples hearts
only their brains
& thus only the cunning
the servile
join their ranks
stay there

& yeah
evasion is kind of crappy
like what if on
the road
was written by
a wordy middle school anarchist

& yeah
off the map feels
ultimately
kind of pointless
sunshiney & pretty
not too much in the way of guidance

work
is certainly no
capital
- warning large pdf -
but
it contains generally
most of the important
extrapolations
deals with people
little more evenhandedly
than broadbrushing folks
as bougie scum

fig21a who shall authorize the authority of the author?
shall the dictator dictate the dictionary?
do the settlers settle settlements?

my favorite part
of rt
is of course
the glossary
which both
illuminates
& ridicules
every side
so im excited
about their new book

contradictionary
a war in every word
they say

in
deed

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what do you think about forcing people into communes is that ok or not

so in the quest
to figure out
what
the
fuck
is going on with this
iww sisters camelot
shit

i ended up signing onto
libcom
a website resources
dialogue about
libertarian communism

which yknow
if you want to figure that out
good fucking luck

ive been at it for years now

anyway
gold like this
made it alllllll
worth it

made it worth even waking up
today

at first its like
serious question
& theres all this good civil talk

it gets really good around post 27

NUH UH QUIT TRYING TO MAKE ME IMPOSE COMMUNISM ON EVERYONE YOU MONSTER

as they say on the interwebs
i lold

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wobbling in camelot

we never stop fragmenting

its part of our virtue
this juggling of new ideas
new applications
& part of our vice
infighting

i have a lot of respect
for the wobblies
but like some point out in the heated comments
it seems like a bad plan

fig20a the cost of free organic food in our communities is should not include integrity & sanity

why spring another leftist
organization into
what seems like a structure
aimed at worker
inclusion

its a bit beyond me
granted im at several
removes from the situation

food justice is a big deal
not just in the twin cities
where i think we make
more progress
in getting food
to folks
in need

but i suspect
money
is at the heart of this
somewhere

membership
wants more control
over finances

sisters camelot
sound like an upstanding
organization
on the whole

i understand a lot of the rhetoric
is the same shit bosses
use against unions
right
that rubs me the wrong way

but from what little
i know
of collectives & volunteer work
sister camelot
shouldnt be paying
canvassers at all

leave money fucking out of it
whenever possible

if your heart isnt in it
dont do it
on the left we have to prove
we can walk the walk

fig20b wage creates labor perpetuates wage

when we call for
the abolition of the wage system

it means doing away with labor
which in the end
will do away
with unions

collectives i think
at their heart
mean to bypass
the union movement

this illustrates a failure of that concept
its foolish to base a collective
off the idea of wage labor
at all

now im not one
to renounce the wobblies
god bless em

but the phrase

The campaign at Sisters’ Camelot represents a new step for Food and Retail Workers United, an organizing committee of the Industrial Workers of the World labor union

also rubs me the wrong way
like theyre doing this for
prominence
as the next sentence in the quote applauds
yknow
attention

well theyve got it

actually i think this
whole debacle illustrates
a growth of the left
that the iww has the strength
to take on this campaign
however mis-allocated it may & may not
be

when we experience failures
its because were growing
hopefully
unlike those orthodox marxists
who bang their heads
against the very obvious wall
of american culture cynicism etc
blaming a lack of consciousness
when in fact
their own heads are quite muddled
you know
from the headbanging

this is a learning opportunity
& as an outside observer
this is what id advocate

1 the reinstatement of the fired worker
2 removal of any distinction between manager & worker positions
3 relaunching sisters of camelot as a volunteer organization

this could very well be
out of touch
for the actual situation on the ground
like i said
outside observer
the situation could change in a heartbeat

however
if we dont learn to make compromises
along our own shared values
well spend all our time fighting
ourselves instead of the forces
which oppress us

cmon
its not like a volunteer food service org
hasnt worked in the past
without wage labor
the wobblies can move on
to fighting something that matters

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call for cartographers & treasure-hunters

but books
my friend said to me
after reading
my last post
youre encouraging
dangerous behavior

people get hurt
lost
worse

you have to understand
risks

& fact is
can't control them all
have to inoculate
in a sense
cuz eventually

you encounter your ocp
outside context problem

then its tits up anyway
you slice it

you want it sooner
or later
you wanna stay home
watch tv die of sloth

fig19a THOSE WOLF MECHANICS BANGING THOSE WOLF MECHANICS CRASHING

or like our common ancestors
get lost
make maps
pioneer
encounter
grow

& yeah yeah
whole world is mapped
they say
spinny satellites
& robot cars

but those arent your maps
arent our maps

when was the last time
you drew a map
elementary school
middle school
highschool
college

ever

you have a mental one
in your head for
crying out loud
its never come out

has the world
ever
had the pleasure
of seeing its topography
in your eyes
like the portrait
of a lover
or a poem

or do you fear
the laws & guardians
sheepdogs

fig19b dont disregard the discarded

do you miss
the secret scavenged treasures
hiding in the pavement cracks
& alleyways

accepting only what is safe
sanitized
lifeless

you cannot have an identity
when you are taking
dictation
in the form of goods
services
lifestyles

it is dangerous
to be
human

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