[Autonogram] September 2009 Autonogram

Thu Sep 24 07:35:12 EDT 2009

Greetings Autonogram subscribers,

And so here we find ourselves in September again, the season where  
many find themselves back inside the gates of the EduFactory. And here  
we are again with another set of updates, information, news and events.

1. Several events & readings with the Unbearables in coming weeks
2. Strategic Reality Dictionary launch event at Eyebeam on September  
29th
3. Between Dog & Wolf to be re-issued
4. Tabling at events

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1. Events with the Unbearables
Book Release Party @ NYU, Thursday, September 24th, 6:30pm
The Fales Library at NYU invites you to a book party/reading for the  
Unbearables’ The Worst Book I Ever Read, Thursday, September 24th, at  
6:30. The Fales is on the third floor of the Bobst Library, in the  
Philip Johnson building on the south side of Washington Square Park.   
A reception will follow.

Readers include: Max Blagg, Janice Eidus, Carl Watson, Chavisa Woods,  
Hal Sirowitz, Jill Rapaport, Amy Ouzoonian and Sparrow. Jim Feast will  
host, as always.

The Worst Book I Ever Read will be available for the special sale  
price of ten dollars.

And if that isn’t enough of the Unbearables for you:
The Unbearables will read From The Worst Book I Ever Read at  
Unnameable Books in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 10th, at 6:00 pm.  
The readers will be: Carol Wierzbicki, Arthur Nersesian, Bonny  
Finberg, Tom Savage, Donald Breckenridge, Tsaurah Litzky, Steve  
Dalachinsky and Susan Scutti. Unnameable Books is located at 456  
Bergen Street. To get there take any subway to Atlantic or Pacific  
Street and walk up Flatbush away from the city, or any train to  
Seventh Avenue or Grand Army Plaza and walk down Flatbush Avenue  
towards the city.

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2. Strategic Reality Dictionary book launch
September 29th, 2009 7 pm
Eyebeam (http://www.eyebeam.org)

Join us for the release of Konrad Becker’s Strategic Reality  
Dictionary. Becker will present a compelling slideshow that seeks to  
define the terms by which hacktivists and tactical media practitioners  
like Critical Art Ensemble and the Yes Men infiltrate and subvert the  
global information system.

“Strategic Reality Dictionary offers seventy-two keys to the  
construction, imposition and maintenance of contemporary systems of  
inclusion and exclusion, which only function for two principle  
reasons: because of stealth, and because they are able to engineer our  
own unconscious beliefs.” – Brian Holmes

A reception follows. Event co-produced by Autonomedia.

Konrad Becker is an author, artist and producer in the field of  
culture and information technology. Director and co-founder of the  
Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, and of Public Netbase from  
1994 to 2006, he initiated World-Information.Org, a cultural  
intelligence agency. Publications include: Strategic Reality  
Dictionary (2009) and Tactical Reality Dictionary (2002).

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3. Between Dog & Wolf to be reissued
Those who have been wanting to get their hands on a copy of David Levi  
Strauss’ classic exploration of the relation between art, politics,  
and aesthetics will be delighted to know that a new printing of the  
book will be available in the next few weeks. In this collection of  
essays, David Levi Strauss addresses the always conflicted relation  
between aesthetics and politics by concentrating on specific instances  
– from allopathic art to Desert Storm propaganda, from Columbus’s  
legacy to Robert Smithson’s prophesies, and from new art in post- 
Soviet Russia to public art in the United States – and by focusing on  
the work of artists as various as Grunewald, Jean Genet, Cindy  
Sherman, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie  
Mizonville, Carolee Schneemann, Andrei Monastyrsky, and Daniel Joseph  
Martinez.

4. Upcoming Bookfairs & Events
Autonomedia will be tabling at a number of events and bookfairs in the  
coming months. Here are some of the events we will be at during the  
early Fall. Come visit us at the following:

– Manchester Anarchist Bookfair (UK), September 26th (http://www.bookfair.org.uk 
)
– This is Not a Gateway Festival (UK), October 23rd – 25th (http://www.thisisnotagateway.net 
)
– London Anarchist Bookfair (UK), October 24th (http://www.anarchistbookfair.org 
)
– Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair 2009 (UK), October 28th –  
November 1st (http://www.word-power.co.uk)
– The Internet as Playground and Factory, November 12th – 14th, New  
School, NYC (http://digitallabor.org)

That’s all for now. More updates and information to come in the next  
few weeks.

Cheers + solidarity,
Stevphen

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