PETER LAMBORN WILSON—Lot (2) Trade PBs: Heresies + Escape from 19th Century

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A Lot of TWO (2) TRADE PAPERBACKS (in VG+ / UNREAD condition) by: • PETER LAMBORN WILSON (1945-2022) • TITLE 1: “HERESIES: ANARCHIST MEMOIRS, ANARCHIST ART”(AUTONOMEDIA, 2016) (TRADE PAPERBACK, First Edition, First Printing) • “A book in two parts, with, firstly, reminiscences, rants, and anarchist (in)activism in New York from circa 1984 onwards…. Converted to anarchism by KRAZY KAT comics at age 13, PETER LAMBORN WILSON has devoted his political energies (such as they be) to its noble ideals and, as NIETZSCHE says, there are some causes one does not desert if only because it would give one’s enemies too much satisfaction. Hope against hope.... Thirty years of Armed Nostalgia, Escapism, Ontological Anarchy and the Temporary Autonomous Zone. The latter half of this volume consists of essays on Symbolism, alchemy and anarchism in the arts, with commentaries on WILLIAM MORRIS, WALTER CRANE, ODILON REDON, MAX KLINGER, STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ, PAUL SIGNAC, FÉLIX FÉNÉON, RUBE GOLDBERG, PAUL GAUGUIN, FRANTISEK KUPKA, MARCEL DUCHAMP, JOSEPH BEUYS, GEORGE HERRIMAN, and many others.”—THE PUBLISHER • “I think this is one of his best books. The first half is mostly memoir and it's really interesting as he shares his personal adventures and the people and books and ideas that influenced him along the way. The second half is about art from a personal and anarchist point of view. Highly recommended, and essential for PLW fans.”—JNANA, AMAZON REVIEW • TITLE 2: “ESCAPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AND OTHER ESSAYS”(INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED, 2022) (TRADE PAPERBACK, First Edition, First Printing) • “ESCAPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is a group of essays by cultural critic PETER LAMBORN WILSON and tackles the notion of modern progress: Did the Nineteenth Century ever come to an end? Was the ‘Twentieth’ Century just a rerun? And what about the Twenty-First Century, the New Millennium? Another lackluster confirmation of the Eternal Return? Another garden of secondhand time? If to know ‘History’ as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that won't stop haunting us. Two illuminated madmen—CHARLES FOURIER and FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE—and two too-sane geniuses—J.P. PROUDHON and KARL MARX—are enlisted in the breakout plan.” —THE PUBLISHER • “These four essays are loosely linked, at best, and stylistically they range widely, too. There’s an affectionate evocation/discussion of that great madman, CHARLES FOURIER; an insightful and novel analysis of MARX's quarrel with PROUDHON that is probably as close to an academic essay as PLW is likely to publish; a wide-ranging piece on the traces of anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchical sentiment in various cultures; and a straightforward and perhaps slightly over-extended chronicle of a bizarre piece of Rumanian history, a story which reads like fiction…. The diversity of topics is refreshing, and they all benefit from WILSON's generosity, his keen intelligence and genuine depth, and his serious though totally un-academic scholarship. And the two central essays, ‘MARX AND PROUDHON ESCAPE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY’ and ‘THE SHAMANIC TRACE,’ raise key issues about the chances that we may yet find a way out of the self-devouring cycles of the world laid down in the European nineteenth century, that age red in tooth and claw. Very highly recommended.” —MICHAEL STEINBERG, AMAZON REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “A counterculture intellectual, anarchist, poet, musicologist and utopian who coined the term “temporary autonomous zone,” which became a cri de coeur for the organizers behind both Burning Man and Occupy Wall Street — as well as for ravers, cyberpunks and other late-20th-century antiestablishmentarians…. MR. WILSON’s background, unsurprisingly, was eclectic. He was a classics major at Columbia University but dropped out. He helped start a psychedelic church, and he pondered, briefly, a career as an antiwar activist (an attempt to bomb a draft headquarters in red paint fizzled) before hitting the hippie hashish trail, as many of his peers did, traveling through the Middle East and South Asia…. By all accounts, MR. WILSON was erudite about the recondite, a prolific author of some 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopias and all manner of renegade religions.” —NEW YORK TIMES (THE AUTHOR’S OBITUARY)• “He was a fascinating character. He knew a lot about everything. The thing we had in common was an interest in dropout culture, in all the ways of not participating in the charade of modern life. And he was encyclopedic in his knowledge of all that material. He was an eccentric, but also I think what he was doing was scattering bread crumbs for others to pick up.” —LUCY SANTE, “LOW LIFE: LURES AND SNARES OF OLD NEW YORK,” ETC. • • For other details about the two books in this lot, please see below. • TITLE 1: “HERESIES: Anarchist Memoirs, Anarchist Art” AUTHOR: PETER LAMBORN WILSON FRONT COVER ART: PAUL SIGNAC TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: AUTONOMEDIA (Brooklyn, NY), 2016 EDITION: PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, no later printings listed. NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 164 ISBN: 978-1-57027-300-1 CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Wraps are bright & clean. Corners are lightly bumped. Edges are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped top. Text-block edges are lightly scratched. The pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing, no highlighting, no underlining, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. •• TITLE 2: “ESCAPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AND OTHER ESSAYS” AUTHOR: PETER LAMBORN WILSON FRONT COVER ART: PAUL SIGNAC TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED, “MADE IN THE USA (Columbia, SC), 2022” EDITION: PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, no later printings listed. NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 205 ISBN: 9798356640018 CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Wraps are bright & clean. Corners & edges are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges are fine. 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Price: 44.99 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-10-08T11:18:17.000Z

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