Recent Books

  • 2026 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints

    Price: $10.00

    2026 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!
    Artwork by James Koehnline and Text by the Sacred Congregation for Universal Jubilation

    Now in Full Color! Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2026! Our 34th annual wall calendar. Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the New World and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear at the dawn of this new millennium that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever! Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!

    ISBN: 9781570274459
    Saddlestitched, full color, 16″x11.75″, 32 pages, $10
    Buy two, get one free!

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  • JUNK: The MetaLphysical Art of Cowboy Ray Kelly, by Istvan Kantor

    Price: $17.95

    JUNK: The MetaLphysical Art of Cowboy Ray Kelly, a bionovel by Istvan Kantor

    JUNK features the realm of the rough, heavy-weight, metaLphysical art of Cowboy Ray Kelly and the Rivington School, Neoist comrades of author Istvan Kantor — welders, graffiti artists, anarchists, noise makers, punks, poets, painters, drug users, performance artists, photographers, film and video makers, writers, journalists, refugees…

    In 1985 they took over an abandoned lot in New York’s Lower East Side and turned it into a monumental scrapmetal garden and free community space. It was built and rebuilt three times due to being bulldozed down by the city under false accusations of endangerment, obstruction, illegal undertakings, constant noise, fire hazard, use of drugs and other criminal activities.

    A pioneer of social street art, Cowboy Ray Kelly’s work is in certain ways analogous to that of Joseph Beuys’ ecological activism and social sculpture concept, but while Beuys communicated through overly dramatic gestures and loud theoretical talks,...

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  • Cities For a Single Planet: A Model For the Ecological Transformation of the Earth, by Hans Widmer, with P. Antoniadis, M. Baumgartner and D. Spuhler

    Price: $19.95

    Cities For a Single Planet: A Model For the Ecological Transformation of the Earth, by Hans Widmer, with P. Antoniadis, M. Baumgartner and D. Spuhler

    The authors and most of the collaborators of this publication are all members of Neustart Schweiz, an independent study group that has been reinventing itself since 2010. The members of the group are active in cooperatives, citi-zens’ initiatives, ecological organizations, and scientific institutions.

    Our main activity has consisted in putting together publications, giving talks and participating in discussions in Switzerland, Germany, France and other countries. The discussions are always animated and sometimes lead to concrete projects. People are usually pissed when they see the graphs showing ecological limits. It is fun to be missionaries of the new “urban”.

    Based on previous publications of the Neustart Schweiz team, the focus of this book will be on boroughs (20,000 citizens) and cities (500,000). After the presentation of our model and the special studies (IT,...

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  • Unreality and Its Discontents: The Struggle Against Christian Nationalism, by The Critical Art Ensemble

    Price: $19.95

    Unreality and Its Discontents: The Struggle Against Christian Nationalism, by The Critical Art Ensemble

    “While advocating for the liberation of inner life from ideological obedience into boundless possibility, CAE pulls back the curtain on the intricate circuitry powering the U.S. social landscape. With sharp insight, they expose the rationale behind the nation’s alarming shift from democratic principles to the totalizing imposition of Christian identity on laws, policies, and cultural practices — obliterating all dissenting perspectives in the process. I cannot
    unread this book. Any serious analysis of the present that ignores the Christian ideology now shaping the future is incomplete.”
    — Julie Ault, MacArthur Fellow

    “I wish this book was not so much needed, but unfortunately it is, and it is the best thing I’ve read on the current situation. A call to cosmological action!”
    Matthew Fuller, Professor, Goldsmiths

    “In Unreality and Its Discontents, the ever-prophetic Critical Art Ensemble confronts the rise of Christian nationalism and other forms of “pathological unreality”...

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  • Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings, by Matthew Shipp

    Price: $15.00

    Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings, by Matthew Shipp

    Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings is a collection of essays and prose poems from acclaimed pianist and visionary Matthew Shipp. Downbeat magazine has described Shipp as “the connection between the past, present and future for jazzheads of all ages” and as “a musician who deserves a place of choice in the jazz piano pantheon.” Shipp has written essays for a number of fanzines, blogs and magazines over the years and this collection touches on many subjects, including jazz, sports, the psychology and spirituality of improvisation, and 1980s New York dance culture. Introducing this book, visual artist and poet Yuko Otomo places Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings in the pantheon of books by artists writing about their art, lauding it as “a meticulously descriptive record of his creative process’s physical/metaphysical/alchemical mystery itself seen from the inside,” with “a peculiar and unique quality which does not exist in any art writing.”

    “Matthew Shipp has created a beautiful testament filled with reflections,...

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  • 2025 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!

    Price: $10.00

    2025 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium!
    Artwork by James Koehnline and Text by the Sacred Congregation for Universal Jubilation

    Now in Full Color! Autonomedia’s Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2025! Our 33rd annual wall calendar. Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the New World and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear at the dawn of this new millennium that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever! Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!

    ISBN: 9781570274336
    Saddlestitched, full color, 16″x11.75″, 32 pages, $10
    But two, get one free!

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