hung out with these folk yesterday, and Rick gave me a 4-volume set of out of print editions (1984, 1986, 1988, 1991) of the OCTOBER journal. What would have cost around $250, I now have, for nothing, and I want to scan/re-circulate the essays and photography to anyone who's interested. Fuck paying for shit.
E X A M P L E S:
"Mimesis and Castration, 1937," Denis Hollier
"The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain)," Georges Didi-Huberman
"There's Always Tomorrowland: Disney and the Hypercinematic Experience," Scott Bukatman
"'Makulakul'tura': Reprocessing Culture," Nancy Condee and Vladimir Padunov
"Toward Real Revolution," Georges Bataille
"The Religion of the Caves: Magic or Metaphysics?," Andre Leroi-Gourhan
"Tourism and the Semiotics of Nostalgia," John Frow
"On New German Cinema, Art, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere: An Interview with Alexander Kluge," Stuart Liebman
"The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse," Homi Bhabha
ETC ETC ET AL
II.
"AMOK": FOURTH DISPATCH: SOURCEBOOK FOR THE EXTREMES OF INFORMATION
"This unique document...offers unflinching looks at mayhem, virus, decay; dissections of the current global power structure; sexual impulses spinning out of control; psychiatric tyranny and schizophrenia; tribal rituals and ethnographic documents; psychedelic reality-maps; the tactics of individual subversion and autonomy...raw data in the form of: forensic medical texts and CIA torture manuals, behavior control techniques, biographies of serial killers and porno queens, fire and brimstone fundamentalist fulminations, Satanist manifestos and Santeria spellbooks, Nudist Colony guidebooks and psychotronic film directories, human oddities picturebooks and UFO abduction accounts, riot control technologies and AIDS as biological warfare, the abolition of work and Situationism, keeping severed heads alive and creating a false ID, holocaust revisionists as well as the African roots of Western civilization, necrophilia and gay truckstop sex, and countless other manifestations of the bizarre and provocative."
HIT ME UP IF YOU WANT ANY SCANS FROM THAT, AS WELL.
BLINDANDFINITE@email.com
III. AGAIN, FUCK PAYING FOR SHIT.


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