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In the present

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“What is still to be achieved is the struggle to grasp the surface effects of the present through concepts that articulate the abstract forces that produce them, forces that are not eternal and are not an essence. It can’t be done by means of words alone. Words have to connect to everyday life in all its vulgar glory and idiocy, and right at the point where the emerging forces of production are shaping that everyday life, [d]riven perhaps by quite distinctive forms of class struggle and experience. The means to live and endure otherwise may already have come into existence, fettered though they are by outmoded relations and forms.”

Mckenzie Wark’s The Struggle to Live in the Present in Verso blog.

Capital Is Dead .

Reading Room @ MDPL

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Artists’ books, multiples and stuff at the Miami-Dade Public Library‘s Reading Room

Subject: TOMORROW: New Arrivals at The Reading Room, 12-2pm

The Reading Room
A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples
Friday, May 14, Noon – 2 p.m.
Main Library Children’s Room, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami
Featuring: New Arrivals Reading Session

This week we’ll take a break from special guest discussions to do some actual reading. The Reading Room will be stocked with 25 artists’ books, multiples and publications added to the Library’s permanent art collection this year. Many of them are heavy on text and demand closer inspection. The most recent batch includes vintage artists’ publications like Avalanche Magazine No. 4 – the Lawrence Weiner issue, from 1972; handmade objects such as Ellen Knudson’s Wild Girls Redux, which won the Florida Artist’s Book Award; zines by Özlem Altin; Black Noise: A Tribute to Steven Parrino, a box set of 32 artist’s books in comic book format, edited by John Armleder, Amy Granat, and Mai-Thu Perret; Nava Atlas’s Love and Marriage, an altered comic; and Poemas, a 1969 livre d’artiste with lithographs by Raoul Veroni and poems by Delmira Agustini, an early 20th century Uruguayan poet whose sensual work made her a trailblazer for later feminist poets.

So take advantage to stop by and read; normally you’d have to make an appointment to see these books and publications. As always, there will be coffee and cookies. There may be music.

On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children’s Room at the Main Library becomes The Reading Room. Visitors can stop by any time between 12 and 2pm to get up close and personal with selections from the Library’s collection of artists’ books, publications and multiples.

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Gean Moreno’s publishing house announced its subscription scheme and publication lineup.

[NAME]publications

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JANUARY 18, 2009

[NAME] announces the four books it will publish in 2009

MIAMI—[NAME] Publications, a non-profit Miami-based publishing house, has announced the four books that it will produce in 2009, in its series dedicated to Miami artists.

Volume 1: WWW by Daniel Newman

Volume 2: Quiet Village by Beatriz Monteavaro

Volume 3: Black Licorice by Clifton Childree

Volume 4: Casa de Carton by William Cordova and BASE collective

The first volume in the series will be published in May. The other three will appear in the second half of 2009. It is the intention of [NAME] Publications that this series grow, over the next five years, to 20 volumes and that it reflect the diversity and depth of the Miami art scene.

[NAME] Publications has also devised a simple subscriptions system so that these books can be conveniently delivered to you. Please see attached PDF for details.

About [NAME] Publications

Founded in 2008 by Gean Moreno and supported by a grant from the John S and James L Knight Foundation, [NAME] Publications is a non-profit publishing house that will focus on Miami artists and cultural topics that are relevant to the local community.

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Subscriptions:

___$60: gets you the four books that will be published in 2009 as part of [NAME]’s Miami Artists Series.

__$100: gets you the four books that will be published in 2009 as part of [NAME]’s Miami Artists Series and an artist’s t-shirt made exclusively for [NAME].

__$500: gets you the four books that will be published in 2009 as a part [NAME]’s Miami Artists Series, an artist’s t-shirt made exclusively for [NAME] and 10% discount on all multiples that [NAME] produces in 2009.

__$1000: gets you the four books that will be published in 2009 as a part [NAME]’s Miami Artists Series, an artist’s t-shirt made exclusively for [NAME], 10% discount on all multiples that [NAME] produces in 2009, and a limited edition artist’s print produced exclusively for [NAME] subscribers at this level.

Please make checks payable to Name Publications.

Please send s ubscription materials to:

[Name] Publications

4241 SW 62 Avenue

Miami, FL 33155

Thank you for your support.