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
forbiddenbooks0@gmail.com

on this blog we will continue to publish

information on our projects
on the publishing industry in general
on language use and misuse

we look forward to conspiring with you


yours for the revolution
forbidden books

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

yours for the revolution
forbidden books

keep calm & whatever
is a meme ripe
for crapjects
might be my new
favorite subject

so when algorithms
decided to publish
rape tshirts
marriage
occurred

from the article linked
voila
kindle spam

monkeys banging
typewriters

tireless
mechanical
monkeys

reprogramming the world
what ends

maybe someday well have
a worldful
self perpetuating
garbage

threedee printers amok
informed by
algorithms
postscarcity
postutility
burning rape tshirts
to keep warm

yours for the revolution
forbidden books

optimistic engineer tackles peak plastic

via as usual lovingly
from the new inquiry

its an article worth reading
because partly
what we think of when we think peak oil
because partly unflaggably
optimisic engineer

says rather than handwring
over plastics death
undeath redeath whatever
consider
alternatives that already exist
natural gas for example

TM: I wonder how much time that really buys us.

DC: That’s a bit of an open question, but probably a decent amount.... But really, this is an opportunity to think about what should be made of plastic, and why.

yes plastic
is a recent invention
we overuse it too

DC: A good example is switching disposable cutlery to bioderived, compostable plastics — there’s really no reason why something that has a functional life measured in minutes needs to be made of something like polystyrene that essentially lasts forever.
buried in plastic forks
up to our eyeballs
as ive said
dinosaurs revenge

so she says
lets use nature
duh

DC: ... feeding bacteria the waste material from palm oil production and having them synthesize biodegradable polymer.
although i think my friends
rainforest action network
might take some issue
with that one in particular

then naturally the threedee
object printer hubbub

are we looking at a world full of “crapjects”? I think the evolution of printing and photocopying might tell us something about the evolution of 3-D printing. 

i love it
crapjects
as if
stuff weve already got
is renowned for its utility

other natural solutions
inspirations include
every fascists second
favorite insect next to ants

DC: One of my side projects is looking at a type of plastic made by the Colletes family of bees.

fig12 that was no human bee

that ones pretty promising

DC: It’s possible that our material environment will look exactly the same after we run out of oil. But I think it’s far more likely that we’ll see a range of new polymers, that do a better job of filling niches.
i envision
a world of polymers
biosynthetics
a new logic of materials
hence commodities
architecture
community planning
an alien animal world

with the same unflaggable human
heart

progress narrative
always so exciting
on the horizon
banal & disappointing
when its realized
at least so far
constrained in
capitalism

yours for the revolution
forbidden books