For each salon that we establish, we present a collection texts.

Here we introduce our biggest reading list to date with a pinch

of salt. Looking at the book shelves in this salon we begin with

some questions, who are all these authors and philosophers

who understand the world as it was, or as it is now, a world both

you and I inhabit?

they are waved high so that we might keep moving?45,65,67

Take for instance Rousseau; we turn to him to mark the ideals

of the French Revolution61

. Here is a text written on stone. Yet

around it lies the unmarked graves and fertile soils of bodies, the

almost or completely forgotten words, gestures or friendships

that stitch the fabric of such and such an event.14,26,35,55,57

Perhaps, as liberal theory would idealise, in this salon we can be

rational, social beings who, gifted with content and the space

31,33 Democracy.

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According to this logic, today we need only to glance at an RSS

feed and re-Tweet to take part. Radical Democracy?

Almost a hundred years ago Dada appeared in Europe.10,11

In the context of the First World War, this avant guard raged

against the rational, bourgeoisie man (this civilised French

the wholesale destruction of the earth and the polarisation of

wealth and power.18,27,32,40,47,51,67,74

to hope that it will become one?1,25,68

Perhaps we choose not to be rational or reasonable. Instead we

could choose to cry, or laugh or simply to chat shit together.

The word aesthetics, from the Greek meaning to feel.

Who authors this space? 3.6.8.13.17.18.24.28,32,37.48.52.63.64.67,70

THBTP GUIDE TO READINGS

to?23,38,41,59,60

Yet even with Marx in mind, in the Global

North it would not be the factories, now converted into

9 When what

is left of a European work force has been transformed to a

other”34,43,44,66,70

History isn’t purely intervals of events, with nothing happening

between one queen’s beheading and the next, between a

revolution and a counter revolution. In the clamorous coming

we hear is movement.20,29,58,62

“In the days when such a thing as a white barber was unknown in the South, every barbershop had its quartet […] Someone would start a tune, maybe even the barber himself, and two or three customers might join in, not singing the melody, but vocalizing tones that harmonized. When a new particularly rich chord was discovered there would be demands for

-James Weldon Johnson “Book of American Negro Spirituals”

For us, what takes place in this hair salon, between your words

and our scissors, between trust and friendship, are ideas and

relationships that form the very grains of the shifting sands of

worlds.

“It may be argued that place-takers and thesis-makers are the movers of history but this begs the question: what is the movement they make? To be sure, space may be traversed but the movement here comes down to a series

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The books assembled in this salon have primarily been donated by the

three radical publishers mentioned below, to whom we are grateful.

Some books found here, or not mentioned in this guide, come from

our own collections, other donations or have found their way here as

liberated commodities.

Verso: Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing

house in the English-speaking world, publishing eighty books a year.

Semiotext(e): Best known for its introduction of French theory to

American readers, Semiotext(e) has been one of America’s most

PM Press: PM Press was founded at the end of 2007 by a small

collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing

experience. PM Press co-conspirators have published and distributed

hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs.

Truth Is Concrete, Graz, 2012

Giorgio Agamben Means Without End

2000 University of Minnesota

Amy Allen ed. Democracy In What State? 2009 Columbia University Press

Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities 2006 Verso

Giovanni Arrighi Terence K. Hopkins

and Immanuel Wallerstein Anti-‐Systemic Movements 1989 Verso

Escalate Collective SALT 2012

Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein Race, Nation, Class Ambiguous Identities 1991 Verso

Etienne Balibar Politics and the Other Scene 2002 Verso

Jean Baudrillard Utopia Deferred 2006

Semiotext(e)

JaapJan Berg ed. Houses of Transformation 2009 NAi Publishers

Elsa & Peter Bethanis Dada & Surrealism 2006 For Beginners

Claire Bishop Artificial Hells 2012 Verso

Ryann Bosetti Regarding Head Shape: Acknowledgment Of The Haircut As Form

Publication Studio

Craig Buckley and Jean-‐Louis Violeau ed. Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967�–1978 2011 Semiotext(e)

Paul Buhle Robin Hood: People�’s Outlaw and Forest Hero, A Graphic Guide 2011

PM Press

Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book 2009 PM

Press / Reach and Teach

Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz

Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon Coloring Book 2010 PM

Press

Franco La Cecla Against Architecture 2008 PM Press

Noam Chomsky Occupy 2012 Penguin

Press

Christina Christoforou Whose Hair?

2011 Laurence King

Pierre Clastres Archeology of Violence

New Edition 2010 Semiotext(e)

Guy Debord Correspondence 2008

Semiotext(e)

Gilles Deleuze Desert Islands and Other Texts (1953-‐1974) 2003 Semiotext(e)

Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Zizek ed. The Idea of Communism 2010 Verso

Karrie Fransman The House That Groaned 2012 Square Peg

Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan Les Sentiers de L�’Utopie 2011 Zones

Lindsey German and John Rees A People�’s History of London 2012 Verso

André Gorz Critique of Economic Reason

2011 Verso

Stephen Graham Cities Under Siege

2010 Verso

Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik Molecular Revolution in Brazil 2008 Semiotext(e)

Gilda Haas, Tomas Benitez and Carol Wells ed. We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters and the Fight Against Displacement in L.A.�’s Figueroa Corridor 2008 PM Press/SAJE

Jurgan Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society 1991 MIT Press

David Harvey Rebel Cities 2012 Verso

Dan Hind The Return Of The Public 2012

Verso

The Invisible Committee The Coming Insurrection 2009 Semiotext(e)

Norman M. Klein The History of Forgetting 2008 Verso

Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer ed. Hatred of Capitalism A Semiotext(e) Reader 2001 Semiotext(e)

Chris Kraus Where Art Belongs 2011

Semiotext(e)

Pierre Kropotkine La Commune 2008

L’Altiplano

Henri Lefebvre Introduction to Modernity

2011 Verso

Peter Linebaugh Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-‐Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-‐12

2012 PM Press / Retort

Prosper-‐Olivier Lissagaray History of the Paris Commune of 1871 2012 Verso

Yve Lomax Sounding the Event 2005 I.B

Tauris

Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi ed. Autonomia. 2007 Semiotext(e)

Sylvère Lotringer ed. The German Issue

2009 Semiotext(e)

Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic

Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History 2008 PM Press

Giacomo Marramao The Passage West 2012 Verso

James Marriot and Mika Minio-‐Paluello

The Oil Road 2012 Verso

Tom McDonough The Situationists and the City 2009 Verso

Farquhar McHarg Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg -‐ I: 1918

2011 PM Press / Christie Books

Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism 2012 PM Press

thehaircutbeforetheparty.net

Ben Morea and Ron Hahne Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group 2011

PM Press

Laura Oldfield Ford Savage Messiah

2011 Verso

Prole.info The Housing Monster 2012 PM

Press

Queen of the Neighbourhood

Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils

2010 PM Press

Jacques Rancière Proletarian Nights: The Workers�’ Dream in Nineteenth-‐Century France 2012 Verso

Jacques Rancière The Emancipated Spectator 2009 Verso

David Rattray How I Became One of the Invisible 1992 Semiotext(e)

Gerald Raunig Art and Revolution 2007

Semiotext(e)

Lukasz Rondula Alex Farquharson and Barbara Piwowarska ed. Star City 2010

MAMMAL Foundation

Kristin Ross The Emergence of Social Space 2008 Verso

Jean-‐Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract 1968 Penguin Books

Peter Sloterdijk Bubbles Spheres Volume I: Microspherology 2011 Semiotext(e)

Michael Sorkin All Over The Map 2011

Verso

Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing The Journey to Tahrir 2012 Verso

Charles J. Stivale Gilles Deleuze, Key Concepts 2011 ACUMEN

Erik Swyngedouw Civic City Cahier 5: Designing the Post-‐Political City and the Insurgent Polis 2011 Bedford Press

Astra Taylor, Keith Cessen and n+1

Occupy! 2011 Verso

Dianna Taylor ed. Foucault, Key Concepts

2011 ACUMEN

Tiqqun Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-‐Girl 2012 Semiotext(e)

Tiqqun This Is Not A Program 2011

Semiotext(e)

Paul Virilio Lost Dimension 1991

Semiotext(e)

Teun Voeten Tunnel People 2010 PM

Press

McKenzie Wark The Beach Beneath the Street 2011 Verso

Eyal Weizman The Least Of All Possible Evils 2011 Verso

Ellen Meilsins Wood Liberty and Property

2012 Verso

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