back issues

#1 July 1983: Comics by Terry Laban; local bars; "Skateboarding in Ann Arbor"; and "David Bowie: Friend or Foe?"



#2 January 1984: "Sit-in Against Military Research"; "Methods of Detournement" [reprint]; and "Violent Femmes: Friend or Foe?"



#3 May 1984: "Gang of Four surrender!"; "Class War Declared!"; "Body-building and the Repression of Class Consciousness"; "Action in Ann Arbor against Ondine/Warholism"; and "Laurie Anderson: Friend or Foe?"



#4 July 1984: "An Ideological tool in the Repression of the Poor"; "Towards a critique of Hitchcock's Vertigo"; and "Will Androgyny Save Capitalism?"



#5 September 1984: Millionaire business man Tom Monaghan, "MTV: Friend or Foe?"



#6 November 1984: "An Intro to the S.I."; Bruce Springsteen, Ronald Reagan and Capitalism; Riot by Detroit Tigers Fans; and "I Was Wrong About MTV."



#7 December 1984: "Addenda/Corrections to An Intro to the S.I."; "Lennon, Ono & the Revolution"; reprint of "Arms and the Woman"; and "Off the Pigs! Or a Critique of Synchronicity."



#8 July 1985: "Fighting Star Wars to Win"; Feminist Graffiti in Buffalo; "Body Talk"; "Son of the Return of the Death of Punk"; and "Situating the Pro-Situs."



#9 January 1986: "Where the Buffalo Roam"; "The Red Hot Chili Peppers"; "Manet in situ"; George Dahl's open letter; and "Cutting the Circle: Jump Cut magazine."



#10 July 1986: Comics by Uhuru Commix; "Public Domain's Museum of Lost Possibilities" [flyer]; "Three Candidates"; "The responsibility of punk"; "The pornography of sex"; "The Liberty to Consume"; "Towards a Poststructuralist Marxism"; and "The Power of the Pro-Situs."



#11 January 1987: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part I"; program notes for Look, Who's Asking the Questions?; "NOT BORED! goes to the movies"; "How to listen to Popular Music"; and "The Go Go Scene: Visions of Chocolate City."



#12 May 1987: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part II"; "A Defense of Apathy, the Stinking Fart in the Modern Elevator of Life So-called " [flyer]; "Heavy Brie-Thing, Or How to Make a Correct Object Choice" [pamphlet]; and Two plays by Tuli Kupferberg.



#13 November 1987: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part III"; "Sympathy for the Mekons"; "Pere Ubu: Five Points of Interest"; "Derridiere Guard"; "Fearless Vampire Killers"; "The State of Boredom Today"; and critique of "How to Talk like a Situationist."



Supplement to #13 volume I: January 1988: Tables of contents for first 13 issues; index to first 13 issues; responses to "An Intro to the S.I."; responses to "Situating the Pro-Situs"; "The Death of Hardcore"; "Bang Your Head"; an open letter to Prince; and Derrida and the spectacle.



Supplement to #13 volume II, May 1988: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part IV"; "The Desire to Situate: In 3-D (Debord, Derrida, and de Man)"; and "Acorrespondence."



Supplement to #13 volume III, September 1988: "The End(s) of Iggy Pop"; abstract of "Prince's Controversy and Everyday Life"; "Yale French Studies: Everyday Life"; "The Look We Look At: T.J. Clark's Long Walk Back to the Situationist International"; and Derrida on de Man.



#14 February 1989: "The Continuing Adventures of the Cowboy Philosopher" [detourned comic strip].



#15 April 1989: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part V"; "Architecture & Morality"; "In & Out of Reach"; and "Rushdie/Rush to die" [flyer].



#16 December 1989: "On the Art Strike, part I"; "La Derive": review of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces; "William S. Burroughs"; "Christmas in the Free World" and "Christmas in Panama (Radio Noriega, or The Many Moods of Manny)."



#17 July 1990: Conflicts with Factsheet Five; review of Public Enemy's Fear of A Black Planet; and report on Providence, R.I.



#18 December 1990: "On the Art Strike, part II"; "Situationist Films in NY"; translation of soundtrack of Gil J Wolman's L'Anticoncept; "Architecture & Desire"; and "The Brethren of the Free Spirit."



#19 June 1991: Text of "The Situationist Concept of Spectacle, Then and Now" [performance]; comments on Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; "Actions Taken Against Factsheet Five"; posters from France, May/June 1968; review of Dances with Wolves; and "The War in the Persian Gulf."



#20 February 1992: Factsheet Five replies; translations of assorted texts by Adam Weishaupt and other Illuminati [reprint]; first English translation of Gasche's On the Trial of Spur; comments on Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; and "What? Panties, again!?!"



#21 July 1992: "Andre the Giant has a posse"; report on riots following acquittals of police officers accused of beating Rodney King; The Forty One Curses, Crises and Conspiracies of Everyday Life [performance]; "Debord's Pharmacy"; "What's the matter with money? Or, Can I count on it 2 nite?" and "Takeoff."



#22 August 1993: Report on Europe; "A Jew Who Chose to Live in Germany"; translation of poster from Les Nevres Nues; "Ice-T and the Gang Cease-fire in L.A."; and panties, panties, panties.



#23 January 1995: "The Degradation of Everyday Life" [pamphlet], "Bulletin From Rewrite [Re: William Burroughs]," "Johnny Naked," "The Films of Guy Debord," "The Suicide of Kurt Cobain," and "Monkey Men: Devo and the Golem of Devolution."



#24 September 1995: "Squat the World" [pamphlet], "Defaced Advertisements," "Preliminary Report on Urban Games," "Lettrist Soundtrack Bootlegged" [audio cassette]; "On Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square," and "The Spectacle of Information."



#25 June 1996: "Screening of film by Guy Debord," "Open letter to Stewart Home," statement announcing NOT BORED!'s website, "Space is the place," "Situationist Symphony No. 1," "The American section of the Situationist International," "All the things you could be right now if Raoul Vaneigem were your father," the Unabomber's manifesto, index to first 25 issues, and a preface to a NOT BORED! anthology.



#26 November 1996: See Hear Bookstore boycotted, Nike advertisement subverted, Squatters evicted from 13th street, Rage Against the Machine confronted, Unabomber for President Political Action Committee NYC, Stop OPTO, Boycott New Year's Eve 1999/2000, statement from the Surveillance Camera Players, proposal for the Guerilla Programming of Video Surveillance Equipment, 125th Anniversary of the Paris Commune, Dennis Rodman: De-Domesticated Man, Workers' Councils, Cornelius Castoriadis and the SI, Heatwave #1 30 Years Later, and several situationist texts in French.



#27 May 1997: An update on boycott of See Hear Books, the text of Ubu Roi used by the Surveillance Camera Players for their performance of the play, the Top Ten Reasons Not to Buy MetroCard, translations of Guy Debord's "Theses on the Cultural Revolution" and of Debord & Wolman's "Why Lettrism?" a statement concerning getting copies of the video of Guy Debord's La Societe du Spectacle, a review of At Dusk: The Situationist Movement in Historical Perpsective" (1975), a review of special issue of October devoted to the SI, and Yet Another Introduction to the SI.



#28 December 1997: Review of Len Bracken's "Guy Debord: Revolutionary"; a reprint of and commentary upon the manifesto of the English section of the SI; a translation of and commentary upon Pierre Guillaume's "Guy Debord"; a review of an exhibit of art work by Jamie Reid, two statements from the New York Psychogeographical Association: No more fucking ugly buildings and Decrees of 22 November 1997



#29 July 1998: The NYPA says Ban All Private Cars from Manhattan; Ride of the Midnight Marauder; MetroCard Potlatch; Drifting with the New York Psychogeographical Association; Hector Rotweiller's News from the World of Capital; statement concerning the UAW strike; review of reprint of Quattrocchi & Nairn's The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968; towards a review of Len Bracken's translation of Gianfranco Sanguinetti's "The Real [sic] Report on the Last Chance to Save Capitalism in Italy"; Bill Brown's response to Bob Black's review of Bill Brown's review of Len Bracken's Guy Debord: Revolutionary; review of Simon Sadler's The Situationist City; review of Jacques Attali's Noise; second essay on the work of Cornelius Castoriadis; TJ Clark's foreword to the forthcoming English translation of Anselm Jappe's biography of Guy Debord; Gervais Khinespre's Dark Light In A Bright Power: An Article Against The Forced Treatment Of Exceptional Others; translation of Bibliographie Guy Debord, and the LI's response to the question Does thought enlighten both us and our actions with the same indifference as the sun, or what is our hope, and what is its value?



#30 February 1999: More dumps, fewer yuppies; Yuppie Go Home?!; Lady Die mural attacked again; and a NYPA letter to the editor concerning Len Bracken; battles with the Brooklyn Cacaphony Society; the Surveillance Camera Players perform again and again and (wow!) again; Lenny Bruce's Thank You, Mask Man; Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium; subvertizement for the Cel Phone Irradiator and a thrill-packed review of Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space;



#31 (June 1999): Graffiti scandal at Vassar College; graffiti scandal in Williamsburg; the SF Mission Yuppie Eradication Project; the Surveillance Camera Players; statement on "Reclaim The Streets"; review of T.J. Clark's new book; NOT BORED! on-line; last of three essays on Cornelius Castoriadsis; review of book on Portugal.



#32 (January 2000): NOT BORED! on-line; the LESC/RTS/CLC, aka The Borg; On the transparent society; Antonin Artaud and the Surveillance Camera Players; violence in Seattle; Rudolph Giuliani and Adolph Hitler; and a bibliography of American situationists.



#33 (September 2001): Blackout Books closes; On the NY Anarchist Tribes; Anti-gentrification actions in Brooklyn; the City's Ugliest Buildings; SCP protest at the Italian Consulate; The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement; Simulating Sinead O'Connor; unanswered questions about rough music; review of Michael Perelman's The Invention of Capitalism; and the French preface to Sanguinetti's On Terrorism and the State.



#34 (July 2002): Smoke Screens; A New Garden of Eden; statement by the SCP concerning 11 September 2001; Comments on The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement; Pete Townshend Gets His Wish; a reprint of Lester Bangs' Free Jazz/Punk Rock; and more!



#35 (July 2003): The Dark Joys of Social Control in Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland"; a review of recently published situationist books; Mother Nature to 9-11 Mourners: Eat My Dust; Trashing Georges Bataille, "Accursed" Stalinist; Alan Antliff's anarchism: left for dead amid the carnage; Re-code.com and Wal Mart; Laughing Lou Reed; an exchange with "Anarchy" concerning 11 September 2001.



#36 (July 2004): Surveillance cameras around NYU and in Chinatown; Lester Bangs: Great American Moralist; Kurt Columbine; When the cure is worse than the disease; Led Zeppelin: the Greatest TV Commercial Ever Made; Evelyn Manesta; Paul Viriolio's Strategy of Deception; Paco Ignacio Taibo's '68; An unkind reply to RETORT; The Reichstag Burns Again; Debord's letter to Sanguinetti; Debord's letter to Kloosterman; and Lebovoci's letter to Labrugere & Rouyau.



#37 (May 2005): Castoriadis: Translator/Editor's Foreword to "Figures of the Thinkable"; The Strange Afterlife of Cornelius Castoriadis; Money and literature: Sancho Panza's priceless coinages, Gertrude Stein's difficult paper, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug", and Emily Dickinson's Withdrawal; On the "modern" prison: All the world's a prison; Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"; From Debord concerning "Socialisme ou Barbarie": To Andre Frankin, 4 Feb 1961, To Andre Frankin 19 Feb 1961, To Andre Frankin, 18 March 1961, To Andre Frankin, 20 May 1961, To Attila Kotanyi, 12 July 1961, To the participants in the national conference of "Pouvoir Ouvrier," 5 May 1961 To Daniel Blanchard, 13 June 1961, To J.-L. Jollivet, 8 Dec 1961, To J.-L. Jollivet, 21 May 1962, and To J.-L. Jollivet, 6 July 1962; and Debord's Remarks on the SI Today.



#38 (October 2006): Guy Debord Film Retrospective; Guy Debord on the 'immigration question'; Raoul Vaneigem, "Foreword" to "The Resistance to Christianity"; Greil Marcus' "Like a Rolling Stone"; Pitying Paul Virilio; Paul Virilio: Another dupe of the 'War on Terrorism'; Gang of Four's Return the Gift; another unkind reply to RETORT; Double Deflection: "October" on Debord, Again; Elizabeth Byrne Ferm: Towards an Anarchist Education for Children; The secret of George W. Bush's power; and Henri Lefebvre's Writings on Cities.



#39 (September 2007): NYPD spies on the Surveillance Camrera Players, A Critique of Neo-Anarchism, 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Situationist International, Guy Debord's On the 'Immigrant Question', the Friends of Nemesis' On the Riots of November 2005 in France, the Friends of Nemesis' Signed X, Jean-Francois Martos on On the Interdiction of "My Correspodence with Guy Debord", An uncontrollable from the Iron Column Protest to the libertarians of the present and the future about the capitulations of 1937; Ken Knabb's Situationist International Anthology; Raoul Vaneigem's A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings, and Os Mutantes.



#40 (forthcoming 2008): Ubiquitous Surveillance: The Mayor's New Clothes; Modest Proposals for Revolutionizing the Advertising Industry;The Virtual Spectacle; Turning over a new John Zerzan; Kurt Cobain Back From the Dead; Barack Obama's Birthright; Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation.

Index to all 39 issues of NOT BORED! July 1983 to September 2007