Looking back over nearly two centuries of community experiences, this book not only throws light on a phenomenon misunderstood and always present, but attempts to reinsert one fight against an omnipotent system, opening another channel, original, non-exclusive, towards social emancipation. "
Thomas H. Cook ,
blood ties Series, Black, 20 €. Released November 5, 2009.
Here is a very good thriller about family and its dirty little secrets, but also a beautiful reflection on reading. Magnificent.
Little Lawyer provincial, David Sears grew up under the authority of a crazy father, nicknamed the Old and in the shadow of his sister, Diana intellectual, a bright future.
But it gave birth to Jason, a schizophrenic boy whose father, Mark, a specialist in genetics, will never accept the disease. When the child drowns, hell is just beginning. Diana denies the thesis of the accident and suspected of having Mark pushed their son to death. It then adopts a behavior more and more strange, sends messages to his brother on ancient ritual murders and resurrects old sordid stories for the sole purpose of supporting its allegations.
When she eventually bring in its wake the daughter of David, the situation becomes untenable. Torn between the desire to defend his sister, his fears about his mental health and disturbing elements of the investigation, David decides to turn the light on the death of the young Jason, leaving the ghosts of the past threaten the peaceful existence he had laboriously constructed. .. "
Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez ,
The Headless Man , Northwest Passage, 16 €. Released November 23, 2009.
After his excellent study of Ciudad Juarez femicide that the real bloody contemporary Mexico, Gonzalez Rodriguez continues his dive into the horror of his country with this superb text and terrifying. Here the author focuses on the phenomenon of decapitation, currently expanding the "land of darkness which unites the power and crime." Reading
highly recommended to those who are faint of heart.
"The beheading is a practice now common in Mexico.
The war raging between drug cartels has claimed more than 5,300 including 160 deaths in 2008 - police, traffickers, paramilitaries and ordinary citizens - beheaded. In January 2009, the headless bodies of two teenagers aged 15 have been discovered in Tijuana. Since the beginning of the year, the death toll knows no truce. After bones in the desert non-fiction about the femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Gonzalez Rodriguez continues his exploration of the Mexican criminal landscape through the phenomenon of decapitation.
acme of barbarism contemporary, the beheading is analyzed in terms of its history as social, religious, artistic, and in terms of ultra-violence of our modern societies. Journalistic investigation based on testimonies of headhunters, arms dealers and corrupt police officers, mid-trial, mid-autobiography, The Man Without a diving header is at the heart of a gangrenous state where new expressions of Terror knows no bounds.
Sergio González Rodriguez demonstrates once again that journalism can reach to the literature of emergency. "
Daniel Caux,
Silence, the colors of the rainbow & the mechanics of passing time , brightness, 36 €. 390 pages. Released October 23, 2009.
music lovers cross, here is a formidable book, an incredible source of reading pleasure that will inspire you to abandon yourself to musical emotion.
"John Cage La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Charlemagne Palestine, Louis Andriessen, Urban Sax, Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Glenn Branca, Arvo Pärt, Michael Galasso, Alan Lloyd, John Adams, Peter Sellars, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Milford Graves, Sunny Murray, David Murray, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Nina Hagen, Alkan, Leon Theremin, Harry Partch, Conlon Nancarrow, Moondog, Luc Ferrari, Eliane Radigue, Thom Willems, Iannis Xenakis, Sonic Arts Union: Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Gordon Mumma ... & Techno. " 
Georges Bataille,
The psychological structure of fascism , Nouvelles Editions Lines, 10 €. Released October 5, 2009.
News Publishing Guidelines, which will definitely survived very well Leo Scheer, gratify us is an essential publication: indeed, the text of Battle over fascism is absolutely essential for anyone interested in humanities and political issue. Released hot in 1933 in the journal Social criticism
, Battle made a systematic sociological and psychoanalytic reading of fascism. This article is a bombshell, to read an emergency. So thank you to the editor to give us finally to read (the text was hard to get, the reissue of the 1983 editions of the magazine The Difference
Social criticism is doing really rare).
"What the analysis of Bataille stands she? In this essence, that Bataille uses all available means to" think "(and not complain, blame," moralize ") fascism. All means : those of sociology Durkheim (touching the "sacred" Bataille calls for its part heterogeneous) and those of German phenomenology and those of Freudian psychoanalysis, finally. It's new. It takes no less that them, according to him, to understand and interpret how to form a superstructure, be it social, religious or political. His analysis differs in that it already poses a superstructure may be psychological makeup (what Marxism failed to see). "Read" Fascism as a political phenomenon further, it does not see what he is born, the heterogeneous (and Bataille calls, somehow, the "sacred" as Durkheim called it) and the unconscious (in the strictly Freudian), and how it feeds from this violent. Violence that fascism has not, therefore, to concentrate the benefit of his omnipotence fateful. "
We are honored to welcome Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. , Florence Meredieu for a discussion meeting on Antonin Artaud and the Theatre . We discuss in particular the question of relations conducted between the Grand Guignol Artaud. 
