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Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.

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Now available for pre-order from our site (everywhere excluding N. America - MEMORY is publishing with @semiotexte.bsky.social in NA, also Nov 2025). Use the code AUTUMNPREORDER at check-out for 10% off (applies to all forthcoming books): www.silverpress.org/collections/...
MEMORY by Dorothea Lasky
Pre-order: publishing November 2025 What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? Dorothea Lasky’s MEMORY is a cycle of poet’s essays ranging across three dimensions ...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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How to Fuck Like a Girl (Vera Blossom, Dopamine/Semiotext(e)), Defund (Calvin John Smiley, Haymarket Books), and, both by Joy James from Pluto Press: Beyond Cop Cities & Engage. @haymarketbooks.org @plutopress.bsky.social @semiotexte.bsky.social #BookSky #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books 💙📚 9/10
Book cover for Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition by Calvin John Smiley (Haymarket Books), depicting a police shield with stylized flames drawn coming out of its top. Illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2292-defund How to Fuck Like a Girl by Vera Blossom, Dopamine/Semiotext(e): A cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice. A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow book, grimoire, and manifesto by writer Vera Blossom. From hooking up to trans witchcraft, petty crime, capitalism, friendships, divorce, and survival, Blossom brings wit and melancholy, grandeur and smarts, debuting a bright literary voice as raunchy as it is heartfelt. A cheeky how-to guide that earnestly asks if it is possible to fuck oneself into girlhood, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a cult classic in the making. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635902273/how-to-fuck-like-a-girl/ Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures (Joy James, Pluto Press) Engage is a tribute to the power of self-determined stories. This dynamic anthology of writings includes reflections by Black and Indigenous organizers and educators speaking in defiance of the violence and theft that has oppressed them for so long, imagining a future ripe for revolution. Both raw and disciplined, Engage discusses spirituality through environmentalism, security, freedom, autonomy, anti-Blackness and family. It is an invitation to dismantle colonial oppressions and a toolkit to build a future free from the harmful legacies of racism and genocide. Engage includes contributions from under-platformed writers from diverse political perspectives. It emphasises the role of non-academic collaborators as stewards of progressive, radical, and revolutionary projects to realise an optimistic future, that is not a repetition of the violent past. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350301/engage/ Book cover for Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons, edited by Joy James (Pluto Press), depicting two police officers covered in blood splatters as one of them points a gun at a person lying on the ground, also covered in blood. Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various items of equipment available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags, to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarisation has, unsurprisingly, been shown to unjustly impact on Black communities and is associated with increased killings by police. No wonder there have been calls to 'defund the police' echoing across the streets of America. In Beyond Cop Cities, Joy James and fellow contributors take these calls one step further, highlighting the Stop Cop City movement - one of the most vibrant in the US today. Linking anti-policing and racial justice movement with radical ecological 'forest defender' activism, the Stop Cop City campaign is a grass roots movement which aims to push back on police militarisation by blocking the construction of the Atlanta's Police Public Safety Training Center. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350486/beyond-cop-cities/
April 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM