In this dazzling, often shocking novel, the young anarchist narrator, Terry Blake, sets forth on a journey through the political fringe of society. His thirst for knowledge leads to brutality, sexual excess, and finally, self-destruction. A fast-paced, funny, and ironic story straight from today's headlines.

Defiant Pose

Literature & Fiction

Home, Stewart

British & Irish

Peter Owen Ltd

A multi-layered and provocative view of 60s counterculture seen through the eyes of call girl Jilly O’Sullivan, based on diaries kept by the author’s real mother. Tainted Love charts Jilly’s ‘progress’ from 16-year-old hostess in a gentleman’s club in London’s Soho right through to flirting with Black Power activists and mixing with the likes of Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones and John Lennon in the seedy drug culture of the Notting Hill hippie community. This is the story of what happened to the flower children after the party was over.

Tainted Love

Romance

Virgin Pub

The assault on culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to class war

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Unpopular Books

Disputations on Art, Anarchy and Assholism

Social Sciences

Sabotage Editions

Cultural Writing. New to SPD, this odd and compelling book is a collection of Stewart Home's letters, mostly to Florian Cramer, regarding the fabricated 'movement' they call Neoism. As Home puts it in his Introduction, [I] insist that Neoism is no more ridiculous as a 'cultural' phenomenon than Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Lettrism or Situationism. All of these 'groups' operated on the basis of speculation, aiming to create the illusion that a 'movement' that bore their name actually existed ... The `avant-garde' has long denied its `avant-garde' status because it does not wish to acknowledge the ebb and flow of its own discontinuous `tradition'. I hope the selection of letters to third parties, cut into this blend and clash of opinion, adds productively to the general sense of disorientation and confusion.

The House Of Nine Squares

Cramer, Florian

History & Criticism

Invisible Books

A unique collection of short stories documenting the finest moments of twenty years of punk rock. The bands, the booze and the bad behaviour. The drugs, the shagging and brawling. Contributions from Mark Perry, Stewart Home, Nick Blinko, Robert Wyatt and many more.

Gobbing Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language

Arts & Photography

Blinko, Nick

Perry, Mark

Music

Spare Change Books

Penny-Ante is proud to announce a deluxe reissue of Stewart Homeâ€™s classic political satire Defiant Pose, newly introduced by McKenzie Wark with an afterword by Home. Originally published in 1991, this brutal "assault on culture" remains relevant in today's torrid times. Employing pastiche, dÃ©tournement and outright plagiarism, Richard Allenâ€™s skinhead novels get a perverse makeover, going head to head with Hegel, Hobbes, and the heretical tracts of Abiezer Coppe in a wild ride where no subject is taboo. From fashionable pseudo politics, knucklehead neo-nazis, middle-class masculinity, the art world, and literature's so-called "outlaws," Homeâ€™s targets are mercilessly skewered. A contemporary of Kathy Acker born from the punk era, Home has worked outside major cultural institutions for much of his career, and is unafraid to call a spade a spade---an impulse sorely lacking in todayâ€™s culture.

Defiant Pose: 25th Anniversary Edition (Success and Failure Series)

Humor & Satire

Penny-Ante Editions

Charlie Templeton, his wife Mandy, and student mistress Mary-Jane Millford survived the London terrorist bombings of 7/7, but history has yet to be made. To save the future of western civilization, Charlie, a schizoid cultural studies lecturer with a penchant for horror films and necrophilia, must fight the zombies of university bureaucracy and summon the will to become the last in a long line of mad prophets announcing the end of art.

Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane: A Novel (Success and Failure)

Contemporary

Re-Enter the Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation and the Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema

This is the first in-depth look at movies that riff on tropes associated with Bruce Lee and that sometimes transformed this actor into a mythical superman.The period with the greatest cluster of Brucesploitaton productions lasted less than a decade from the mid-seventies to the early-eighties, but the genre spluttered on into the twenty-first century; and although it didn’t exist as a category before Bruce Lee’s death, there are several films that pre-date the Little Dragon’s demise that clearly belong to it. While death added another dimension to Bruce Lee’s celebrity status, he was already a huge star in South East Asia before he passed away; so cynical movie producers did not need to wait for his death to exploit popular interest in Lee - even if the term Brucesploitation had yet to be coined.Within Brucesploitation actors who copy and clone Bruce Lee make up one strand of the subgenre, but their importance can and has been over-stated. Much of the writing about Brucesploitation is fan and internet based, and many of those producing this discourse make little attempt to explain why they insist certain films belong to the genre. Too many fans write as if genre is somehow natural, rather than created and shaped both through bald assertion and by more critical discussion and thinking. It is all too common to find any martial arts film featuring certain actors and themes, or with Bruce in the title, being accepted as Brucesploitation without any debate around the issue.This book systematically explores the genre and controversially takes a close look at which flicks really should be seen as belonging to it.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Cripplegate Books

This is the first in-depth look at movies that riff on tropes associated with Bruce Lee and that sometimes transformed this actor into a mythical superman. The period with the greatest cluster of Brucesploitaton productions lasted less than a decade from the mid-seventies to the early-eighties, but the genre spluttered on into the twenty-first century; and although it didn't exist as a category before Bruce Lee's death, there are several films that pre-date the Little Dragon's demise that clearly belong to it. While death added another dimension to Bruce Lee's celebrity status, he was already a huge star in South East Asia before he passed away; so cynical movie producers did not need to wait for his death to exploit popular interest in Lee - even if the term Brucesploitation had yet to be coined. Within Brucesploitation actors who copy and clone Bruce Lee make up one strand of the subgenre, but their importance can and has been over-stated. Much of the writing about Brucesploitation is fan and internet based, and many of those producing this discourse make little attempt to explain why they insist certain films belong to the genre. Too many fans write as if genre is somehow natural, rather than created and shaped both through bald assertion and by more critical discussion and thinking. It is all too common to find any martial arts film featuring certain actors and themes, or with Bruce in the title, being accepted as Brucesploitation without any debate around the issue. This book systematically explores the genre and controversially takes a close look at which flicks really should be seen as belonging to it.

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