For decades, Happy Mutants met one another and got seriously warped by the astounding books and other media of RE/Search Press (previously), now, after a long drought, RE/Search is publishing a new book, Underground Living (RE/Search #19), featuring the photos of V.Vale — Read the rest

For cyberpunks of a certain vintage, Re/Search press (previously) was absolutely formative — books like Incredibly Strange Films, Zines!, and, of course, Modern Primitives (RIP, Fakir) were incredibly influential material for the modern happy mutant.

Logos separated at birth: RE/Search Publications and, er, Target's new home goods line?

BB pal and inspiration V. Vale is the publisher of RE/Search, chronicles of underground and fringe culture since 1977. The RE/Search books, from Industrial Culture Handbook and Pranks! to Modern Primitives and Incredibly Strange Music, are essential encyclopedias of alternative thought, art, music, literature, and methods to circumvent "control" in all its manifestations. — Read the rest

Richard Kadrey — a charter member of cyberpunk's original vanguard, author of the wonderful Metrophage — has a new novel out at long last, and it was worth the wait.

Butcher Bird is Kadrey's extended, mythological celebration of all things deviant, transgressive, queer, perverse and broken. — Read the rest

In celebration of the long-awaited Pranks 2 book, RE/Search Publications is hosting Pranksfest parties in San Francisco and Los Angeles. ((Previous Pranks 2 post here.) The Bay Area event is this Saturday, November 11, at the San Francisco Art Institute. — Read the rest

This fall, iconic counterculture chronicler RE/Search will release the long-awaited sequel to their seminal Pranks! book published in 1988. The new book features inspirational interviews with The Yes Men, Ron English, John Waters, monochrom, Billboard Liberation Front, and many more tricksters. — Read the rest

V. Vale of RE/Search Publications (also the creator of seminal punk zine Search & Destroy in 1977) says,

On Saturday, Beyond Baroque in Venice will host an event celebrating the release of PUNK 77 (a newly expanded third edition). We'll be screening rare, '70s Punk
films (mostly not on video) and I'll host a panel discussion of "The '70s Punk
Revolution" with DEVO founding theorist GERALD V.

BB pal V. Vale from Re/Search Publications is back on the RU Sirius Show this week talking turning off electronic media and reading a book.

RU also has a fascinating interview with Michael Chorost on the NeoFiles Show this week. — Read the rest

This week, RU Sirius has BB pal V. Vale from Research Publications on
his show, talking about the great English novelist J.G. Ballard.
Here's a snippet from the show:

RU Sirius: There is sort of a conservative side to him [J.G.

On the heels of the essential book JG Ballard Quotes: Does The Future Have A Future?, our pals at RE/Search Publications have released JG Ballard: Conversations. This pocket-sized collection of interviews with Ballard is like a mind grenade in your pocket ready to blow wide open the terminal insanity of today and the psychopathologies of the near future. — Read the rest

Our friends at seminal underground publisher RE/Search are launching a television show on San Francisco public access! The premiere of "The Counter Culture Hour" with host V.Vale is tonight at 6:30pm (and every second Saturday of the month) on Access San Francisco, Channel 29. — Read the rest

"Fifteen years after it first hit shelves, PRANKS! remains one of the most important and relevant books ever to emerge from RE/Search's outre publishing house. In today's current surreal political landscape, a well-executed prank can do much more than yelling theater in a crowded fire! — Read the rest

V. Vale, publisher of the great books (like Pranks and Incredibly Strange Music) is selling his family's used clothing on eBay. I wish my feet were small enough to bid on the shoes. Link Discuss

Monte Cazazza, the transgressive artist who coined the term "industrial music," died on Tuesday, June 27. He was 74. I first learned of Monte's work when I was a teenager reading interviews with him in the RE/Search books Pranks! and Industrial Culture Handbook. — Read the rest

Pranks TV! (1988) is a video directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjø.

The video features 6 interviews which also appear transcribed in the book Pranks! by RE/search publications.

The book, which I highly recommend, contains 37 interviews with "artists, musicians, writers and unclassifiable individuals who work in a mischievous manner; the editors attempt to venerate, with marginal success, the notion of the prank by placing it in artistic and socially conscious contexts. — Read the rest

R.I.P Rest in Pieces is a fascinating documentary by director Robert-Adrian Pejo about Joe Coleman, my favorite artist. From the video description, Coleman is "known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America. — Read the rest

Google Maps' reviewing system has provided a platform for Nazi sympathizers and antisemitic harassment for years. It's a quiet example of the trillion-dollar tech giant's disinterest in moderation—and a loud warning about how easy it is for the far right to appropriate online services. — Read the rest

Carolee Schneemann — a performance art pioneer whose deeply provocative and thoughtful work focused on gender, sex, the body, and power — died yesterday at age 79. My first exposure to Schneemann's work was in the mid-1980s on a grainy VHS dub of avant-garde art films that also included pieces by Karen Finley and Annie Sprinkle. — Read the rest

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