Post Punk Then And Now

This is really good news! We're happy to announce the release of "Post Punk Then and Now" edited by Gavin Butt, Mark Fisher & Kodwo Eshun out now on Repeater Books.

Me and Eli contributed with a chapter "40 Degrees in Black" - TETINE in conversation with Gavin Butt. We talk Brazilian post punk, DIY tropical politics then and now, Tetine's trajectory, Slum Dunk radio, Funk Carioca & other stories! Look out for it - the book also feat. superb reflections by Gavin Butt, Sue Clayton, Kdowo Eshun, Mark Fisher, Green Gartside, Dominc Johnson, Lydia Lunch, Laura Oldfield-Ford, Tom Vague, Gee Vaucher and more...

This comes as a special present for us now... if we think Brazil's experiencing real DEEP shit at the moment & one of its worse nightmares since 1964... if we may put it in symbolical terms...
We just had an impeachment of a FEMALE president which is extremely telling (in all senses) ... all part of a dirty coup fomented by the SAME white neoliberal elite, corporate media, evangelical forces & right wing groups in conjunction with the SAME TV Globo tactics ... Some of the 'time and space' we allude to in "40 Degrees in Black" may not even exist anymore. We dedicate this to you and you and you... (you know who you are....) pardon if I missed someone. FUCK THE PAIN AWAY and fora Temer.

POST PUNK THEN & NOW

We’re happy to announce the release of "Post Punk Then And Now” edited by Gavin Butt, Mark Fisher & Kodwo Eshum on Sept 15th on Repeater Books!

Post Punk Then And Now features contemporary reflections on post punk from leading commentators. Contributions include: Lydia Lunch, Tetine (Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado), Green Gartside, Mark Fisher, Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun, Sue Clayton, Tom Vague, Gee Vaucher, Dominc Johnson and others. More than 300 pages on post punk politics, history, aesthetics and practice.

What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period of cultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists and musicians working under 21st century conditions of austerity.

Contemporary reflections by those who shaped avant-garde and contestatory culture in the UK, US, Brazil and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Alongside these are contributions by contemporary artists, curators and scholars that provide critical perspectives on post-punk then, and its generative relation to the aesthetics and politics of cultural production today.

Available from all good shops from Sept 15th.

GHOST DANCE _ to be haunted before the mask of intellect

Before the mask of intellect
Before the reaches of consciousness
A nothing / A no thing / A no-where

Ken McMullen's superb take on Derrida's theory of mourning & hauntology.