Introduction.
Here at Life not Numbers we insist on bringing you only the finest quality contributions to the revolution in your daily life. There is no order to this catalog, because there is no order without anarchy and we live in a capitalist régime. Please don't hesitate to forward this site, or the site I made to distribute electronic versions of many of the following texts (Live Free or Buy Trying), to anyone who might enjoy them; all i want is to expand the bounds of liberty until they stretch across all the planet. Please contact us to find out more about our projects, which extend into other realms of transgressive creative intervention as well. All page numberings are approximate, all copies are made by hand (so might take time), most type is small, and all prices tentative/negotiable.
Jordan Levinson,
author of strange poems
and translator of tongues.
Life, Not Numbers.
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Raoul Vaneigem. "Address to the Living Concerning the Death that Governs them and the Opportuneness of the Present Moment for Getting Rid of It."
Previously untranslated, this work, which I just finished rendering into English, is the third installment in the trilogy Vaneigem began with his "Revolution of Everyday Life" and "The Book of Pleasures". Vaneigem's radical spirit appears unsoftened, and his reflections on the present state of affairs is interesting and radicalizing as always. The book demands a thorough examination, and is hard to put down. For those who are already familiar with his work, there will be many ideas they have encountered before, but in a more mature form, and his words are the kind that, like some collective poetry, seem ready to leap off the page, dive into your wallet, and burn all your money. An alchemy of the self which brings the reader to the road towards self-enjoyment and towards nature, this book will help you move beyond the old dualities, like "nature or nurture", and start to really nurture your own nature. Worth a read; it'll grow on you like a seed planted in the fertile soil of a liberated mind and body. 116 pp. 5.5 x 4.25. $10.

Thomas Genty - "Art and Subversion: Two antagonistic poles?"
In this essay, Mr. Genty dissects the corpse of art as this civilization knows it and reveals that subversive creation could potentially beat its lifeless heart up again. A thorough reading of this text gives new insights into the ways art has in fact crippled creativity in its name, by pressing it into the service of those curators of the identity-museums, the state and capital. Like most other things, modern art has been terminally sickened by its ego-gaming presentation of false fronts to the world; though it is presumably concerned with individuality, it ends up being only the artificial construction for the world's sake of fictitious roles, "identities" such as "artist", which corrupt and destroy individuality by clumping it into hierarchized categories. An interesting pamphlet, and worth a read. 30 pp., 5.5 x 4.25. $5.

Emile Armand. "Anarchist individualism and Amorous comradeship."
This book is a compilation of writings by the anarcho-nudist and polemicist Emile Armand, who lived his own way. Touching on numerous issues, such as the sexual repression he struggled with in the anarchist movement, the misery of communism, the routine and alienation of daily life, the prohibitive social associations we tend to establish in this moralistic, denatured civilization -- not to mention many others --, this book is a refreshing look back into the past of the anarchic movement of peoples and thoughts, which has been around for a lot longer time than many people know. Emile Armand was the author of numerous books, and his polemics, poetry, and articles from anarchist magazines of the time are engrossing. 5.5 x 4.25. 96 pp., $10

Raoul Vaneigem. "Warning to Students."
This book has already been taken from my hands and put out at least once, so far as I know; when I first translated it and put it on the internet it was proofread and printed up by Bill Brown, and sent around the country; after that it was picked up by a Vermont publishing house, who started selling it in their compilation of Vaneigem writings, called "a collection of desires." Now you can get the translation direct from the translator, as a stand alone book, as it was originally intended. This work, from 1995, is a scathing indictment of schooling and its military training of children for service as slaves and commodities. Though Vaneigem never wanted to throw more commodities out onto the market for ideology, due to his constant production of new books (bibles for the pro-situ?) he's always being picked up and sold somewhere, whether he likes it or not. Already a classic. 5.5 x 4.25. 48 pp. $5.

"Serrated stanzas to maim the mind".
The bitter fruit of this poetry of revolt strikes your mental taste-buds again. Pop that zit your brain's becoming and turn your ear away from the blankeyed choir singing praises of cash; this book of poems will get this rigor mortis world away from you with a quickness. Keenly decorated by the author. Hand-signed copies. 5.5 x 4.25. 16 pp. $2

"Flowers of anarchy".
Plagiarized by many, understood by a select few, this book of poems is a molotov cocktail in your army recruiting center, a fire in your toilet-bowl, and a flood in your police station. Buy this book of poems or you'll have an uncontrollable urge to burn all your money and fuck in the streets in an hour or two. Buy this book of poems and break open your brain so your mind'll fall out. Hand-signed copies. 5.5 x 4.25. 16 pp. $2

Grant Wilson. "Transcending Rent: a child's guide to life, liberty and joy".
This book is a strange memoir of a life lived in the mind to the fullest, a book that jumps off the page. If grant really robbed banks like Robin Art Rich, protagonist of this romp thru the bizarre world of grant vs society, then he'd have enough dough to make the world he dreams of rather than writing books that only almost do it justice. This work of anti-art is herculean, diverting thought-streams at will to clean out the shit-filled stables of ideology. This book will blow your mind apart and lick your skull clean. I wrote the out-roduction, so of course it's got to be bizarre. 8 x 5.5, 100 pgs, $8

"Gee whiz, mao"
Another in a long line of dada revolt which seems to have a hook on the end which drags me. An audacious attempt to focus the orgone ray on your fears. Why hold out any longer? buy this book of poems and help yourself to everything for free! Yes, buy this book of poems and you'll have a free trip to yourself, not to mention a world of mental potential. Hand-signed copies. 5.5 x 4.25. 16 pp $2

J.P. Voyer. "Enquiry into the nature and causes of the people's misery"
This intensely involved, dialectical analysis of the world as it stands is a blow to everything that keeps everyone from becoming a dialectician. A thorough attack of marxism, rigid, authoritarian, and fossilized, which has so crippled the movement of people towards freedom and life. The anarchy flows freely through this book, a sometimes overwhelming mass of critique that has not been fully appreciated. The work is an essential deprogramming tool. Elaborate, yet lucid. 108 pp. 5.5 x 4.25. $10

"Theses on life in someone else's dream"
Here lies another book of dada anti-nonsense, not without its prosaic side, and delving into realms not fettered by any law. Never innocuous, this book of poems will make you bite off the umbilical cord you hang from and fall into yourself joyously. Don't ask permission, just live your own life, which will be immensely enhanced when you buy this book of poems. Hand-signed copies. 5.5 x 4.25 16 pp. $2

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