Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1979. Small poster from Ken Knabb’s pro-situ group citing the spontaneous uprising in Iran as an opportunity for “people to make their own history.” Offset printed in burgundy on an 11” x 17” sheet of thin white stock, map. Folded once horizontally, two vertical creases. More
Chicago: Chicago Surrealist Group, 1992. The first of only two numbers of a short-lived newspaper-format publication issued by the Chicago Surrealist Group. Its title revives the challenge posed by Jacques Vaché in 1917—“What are you going to do about it?”—as an open-ended demand for poetic and revolutionary action. The front..... More
Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1974. First edition. A Situationist title from Ken Knabb, in which he explores the psychological dimension of radical activity and presents “revolutionary practice as a series of acquirable techniques transmitted hierarchically through a supervised apprenticeship which created a community with its own standards of conduct..... More
Chicago: Surrealist Editions, 1971. An ironically titled surrealist assessment of the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács, published shortly after his death in June 1971. Contributors include Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, Paul Garon, David Schanoes, Peter Manti, and other members of the Chicago Surrealist Group. Among the contents are Schanoes’s “Goulash,”..... More
Chicago: Ztangi, 1966. First Edition. A foundational publication of the emerging American surrealist movement, issued by members of Chicago’s Rebel Worker group and Solidarity Bookshop shortly before the formal organization of the Chicago Surrealist Group. Prefaced by Franklin Rosemont, the mimeographed anthology presents revolutionary declarations and writings by prominent members..... More