Farimani: Art Critical/Aesthetic Theory Music

by Amir Mogharabi (editor)

We're so thrilled when we manage, in the chaotic world of small presses, ephemeral distribution, and lackadasical pr to discover a new journal in its first issue.  And often confused - how did we stumble across Upping the Anti (the smartest political journal coming out of Canada, now in it's fifth issue) for the first time?  If we didn't know the editors, would we have had Steampunk Magazine from the beginning (check out the latest, issue #4)?   What about all the editors we don't know, producing amazing underground publications we don't even realize exist?  It's enough to keep a radical bookstore worker up at night!

Luckily, we stumbled across Issue #1 of Farimani at the recent NYC Anarchist Bookfair, and brought back a couple of copies for the store - the front cover's pretty unassuming, but the back cover lists the contributors: Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, Felix Guattari, Slavoj Zizek, Slyvere Lotringer...this is definitely one to look out for!