“A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless.”Sylvere Lotringer. According to Jacques Lacan, humans distinguish themselves from animals the moment shit becomes for them an embarrassing leftover, a source of shame, something to be secretly disposed of. As such, shit casts its shadow even at the most sublime moments of human experience. In ancient Greek theatres, a hole in the middle of the large stone seats in the front rows allowed members of the privileged classes to undergo a double katharsis—a spiritual purification by which their souls were cleansed of bad emotions and a bodily purification to eliminate bad-smelling excrement. Far from being a theoretical joke about the unmentionable ‘that,’ Laporte’s History of Shit confronts the most fundamental issues of what it means to be human
Laporte, Dominique: . History of Shit. Translated with an Introduction by Rodolphe El-Khoury. MIT Press / A Documents Book, 2000. 8vo in wraps as issued. XIII, 160 pages. Illustrated. Fine clean copy
First English language edition of “Histoire de la merde” (1993 / 1978). 3rd printing
Out of Stock
“Artists Books from a Swedish Point of View with Special with Special Attention to the Contributions of Denmark and GDR” by Thomas Millroth.
Jonas Mekas’s autobiography I Had Nowhere to Go describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence. Published by Spector Books, 2020.…
Out of Stock
Out of Stock
