Stewart Home: The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War (1988–) [EN, IT, ES]

In The Assault on Culture, Stewart Home outlines the subterranean history of mid-to-late 20th century avant-gardes in which artistic and political vanguardism emerge as indissociable. In a comprehensive overview of relatively marginal movements—such as lettrism, situationism, and punk—Home analyzes these radical practices and experiences, which, due to their involvement in alternative forms of sociability as well as their relational, process-oriented, and political character, have remained at the margins of dominant art historiography. Home thereby establishes a critical rewriting of the neo avant-garde from a perspective that shares little with the paradigm of modernist formalism. (from MACBA)

First published by Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988
Second UK edition, by AK Press, 1991

Review: Libero Andreotti (J Architectural Education, 1996).
Commentary: Not Bored! (1996, Home’s response)

The Assault on Culture (PDF), EPUB, HTML (from the author)
Assalto alla cultura (Italian, trans. Luther Blissett, 1996, unpaginated)
El asalto a la cultura (Spanish, trans. Jesus Carrillo and Jordi Claramonte, 2002)

See also Home’s Neoism, Plagiarism & Praxis, 1995.

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996)

“This first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life. Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Johansen, Dee Dee Ramone, Nico, Patti Smith, Malcolm McLaren, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to tell the outrageous that bring the punk era to life. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol’s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties mainstream metalmania, the phenomenon that was known as punk is analyzed, criticized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there, and who made it happen. Please Kill Me reads like a fast-paced novel, but the energy it celebrates and the tragedies it contains are all too achingly human, and all too real.”

Publisher Grove Press, New York, 1996
ISBN 0802115888
452 pages

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PDF, PDF (6 MB)

Unsound (1983-1986)

“Unsound was a magazine published in San Francisco by William Davenport of the band Problemist. There were ten issues published between 1983-1986. Unsound is one of the earlier US based publications with any longevity that covered the industrial/noise/punk/experimental underground.” (source)

The issues include interviews with Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten, Negativland, Boyd Rice, Sonic Youth, Remko Scha, Michael Gira/Swans, Genesis P-Orridge/Psychic TV, John Balance & Peter Christopherson/Coil, articles on Whitehouse, Art Radio, Soft Cell, Kronos Quartet, an overview of the Los Angeles experimental electronic scene of the time, and much more.

via Notes From Underground blog and Internet Archive

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Sep 1983)
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Oct 1983)
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Dec 1983)
Vol. 1, No. 4 (Mar 1984)
Vol. 1, No. 5 (Jul 1984)
Vol. 2, No. 1 (1985, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 2, No. 2 (1985, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 2, No. 3-4 (1986, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 3, No. 1 (1986, added on 2017-11-3)
Vol. 3, No. 2 (1986, added on 2017-11-3)