Three books we've been eagerly awaiting....

by v/a

Three books in this week that we've been waiting for for a while.....first up is the inexplicably delayed reprint of Paul Buhle's Wobblies: A graphic history - a fantastic comic-format introduction to the Industrial Workers of the World.  First published for the IWW's centennial in 2005, Wobblies has been out pf print for years, and we're thrilled to have it back in stock.  It's probably our favorite installment of Paul Buhle's awe-inspiring quest to make sure every facet of radical history is available in comic form, if only for the fact that the IWW itself was and is so fond of cartoons, so it seems perfectly natural to retell its history in the format.

Next up is Tiqqun's Introduction to Civil War.  Tiqqun was an anonymous journal that appeared in France a number of years ago, it's two issues offering a kind of sprawling, no-holds barred, Situationist-filtered-through-Agamben critique of the miserabilist landscape of the 21st century.  And it's where "The Invisible Committee," the collective author of the infamous The Coming Insurrection, made its first appearance.  It's safe to say that you're not going to have a really complete picture of what the latter is all about unless you also familiarize yourself with the more rigorous conceptual framework that appeared in the pages of Tiqqun, and so we're pretty thrilled that Semiotext(e) is bringing out the first in a series of translations of these essential texts.   And by the way, if you're really excited by Tiqqun (or really excited to disagree with their position), we're going to be organizing an intensive seminar this summer on The Cybernetic Hypothesis , another recently translated text from the pages of Tiqqun, at the Baltimore Free School . 

And finally, here's a book we've been waiting for for a really long time.  In fact some people have been waiting for this book for longer than most of the people involved with Red Emma's have been alive!  Finally, after decades of waiting, we now have available a full, complete, and competently translated English version of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist magnum opus, The Second Sex!!!!!  While de Beauvoir's work has been tremendously important to the development of the feminist critique, first as one of the opening salvoes of second wave feminism, and more recently as an ur-text for the theoretical deconstruction of gender, it has never appeared in anything like a real English edition until now - the publisher having farmed out the translation to a male zoologist with no experience in either feminism or philosophy, and then arbitrarily cutting passages from the original for no good reason.  But no longer!  A half century later, we've finally got the real deal!

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