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NO RETURN TO NORMAL: ONWARD TO A BETTER SOCIETY & REDUCED HUMAN IMPACT
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Like you, we have been deeply impacted by life under quarantine. Perhaps you are experiencing intense unsettling dreams, having new emotions that cannot be named, crying several times a week, or enduring the silent trauma of isolation and distance. Maybe you are working to fight some of the racial, economic, and environmental horrors that the pandemic has made unavoidable.
The profound inequalities of our society have never been more visible and deadly. The ecological benefits of keeping people from excessive fossil fuel use and over consumption are also crystal clear: cleaner air and less noise pollution, animal and plant populations rebounding, and being able to see what degrowth and less reliance on petroleum actually looks like. There is a great deal of pain in what we are all going through, but returning to normal means returning to a completely destructive way of doing and being. The pandemic is part of, and preparation for, the much worse impacts of climate breakdown yet to come.
We continue to make publications and to advocate for a better world. Public Collectors' new Quaranzine series is a social salve for building community and sharing cultural reflection during this difficult period. BKDN BKDN's new title, by Sarah Poppy Jackson—Reclaim Your Sh*t!—is a humorous history of human waste handling over thousands of years and a passionate plea to stop acting like Victorian England by putting our bodily waste in clean drinking water. Also new in our store, in limited quantity, is Brett and Bonnie Fortune's poster-booklet Deep Map: Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg 2019-2118, that visualizes the radical urban rethinking that the renowned Berlin garden has unleashed over the last ten years, as they look forward to the next 100. We are excited to have reprinted, for the fourth time, Sonic Meditations.
We hope you and your families are safe and in good health.
-- Marc & Brett
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P.S. We are filling orders quickly and taking them to the post office, however we have received reports that some packages are taking longer to deliver than others as the pandemic continues to strain USPS. Please allow more time for delivery than usual (even with premium shipping services like Priority) but don’t hesitate to let us know if you haven’t received your order in a couple weeks.
P.P.S. Shared from Printed Matter: During these challenging times we also want to acknowledge the postal workers, who are providing an essential public service and not receiving hazard pay. In addition, the United States Postal Service is under the threat of collapse and has received no aid from the federal government. To sign a petition in support of the USPS, you can text "USPS" to 50409, or you can sign these petitions for "Immediate Financial Relief for USPS" and "Hazard Pay for all USPS Employees."
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Reclaim Your Sh*t! Water. Beyond Value
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$10.00
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QUARANZINE - Assortment of 12 issues
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$20.00
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Deep Map: Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg 2019-2118
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$10.00
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The Day Before The Revolution
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$16.00
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (2019 edition)
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$25.00
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Susan Snodgrass's Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs has been getting some good press recently. The most recent article is in New City (Chicago) by Michael Workman: "Before the Tiny House: Inside the Matrix Dives Into the Design Legacy of Ken Isaacs." To see this review, and others, visit the link for the book.
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Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs
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$15.00
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