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Press release

Official Document

Title: Announcement of New York Declaration on Inauthenticity
Type: INS Press Release
Authorised: First Committee, INS Authorisation Code: TMcC180807

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The New York Declaration 2007

Joint Statement by the Chief Philosopher and General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS) on Inauthenticity

The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., 25th September 2007, 6.30 p.m. (admission $5, free to Drawing Centre members)

INS General Secretary and author of TINTIN AND THE SECRET OF LITERATURE (Counterpoint/Soft Skull 2008) Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher and author of INFINITELY DEMANDING (Verso 2007) Simon Critchley will present a statement on the subject of Inauthenticity—in art, literature, philosophy, economics and politics—advancing it as a central tenet in INS doctrine.

Questions from the press and public will be taken after the declaration.

Issued by INS Department of Propaganda. Official INS propaganda may be freely distributed, distorted, appropriated or adapted as the reader sees fit.

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Jamestown week in the Lit Blog Co-op... Matt Sharpe will post there tomorrow, it will be his first ever blog post, prepare your questions and witness his blogian deflowering...

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So here are links that will reveal the future activity of Soft Skull and our Counterpoint mothership.

The Counterpoint Fall 2007 list is here (some topnotch stuff in there, from Jenny McPhee and The Littlest Hitler to Laura Flynn and Famous Writers School)—also, the catalog is without a cover, as we had to excerpt it out of the overall Perseus Basic Books catalog, so forgive the clunkiness...

The Counterpoint & Soft Skull combined Winter catalog here (and, you know, it'll take a great many blog posts to elaborate, or even summarize, so just check it out—and Soft Skull purists (!?) should know, there are books in the Counterpoint list that were once Soft Skull books, make sure to take a gander at the whole shebang—together with the Shoemaker & Hoard, we've made that list a wee bit more contrapuntal...)...

As regards the Soft Skull Fall 2007 catalog. Well, it just doesn't exist, mea culpa, there just aren't the hours in the day, so just check out the Coming Soon page...it's the de facto Fall 2007 list for Soft Skull (and boy do we have much much stuff, since there are a bunch of Spring books we had to reschedule for the Fall, especially some rather spectacular translations...Guantanamo, Vibrator, The City in Crimson Cloak...)

Lastly, there's the soon-to-be-entirely-enfolded-within-Counterpoint Shoemaker & Hoard Fall 2007 list. And when you see some of what they've going on—a new Donald Barthelme collection Flying to America, Tetsuo Miura's Shame in the Blood, and a new cultural history of rape—you'll see why we are psyched to be joining forces...

A lot, for one blog post, I know. Bookmark this sucka, please, it'll serve you well. And e-mail me for more info on anything that catches your eye, eh?

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Time for the fourth incarnation of A Public Space, the asskickingest new journal on the Brooklyn nay global block. Therein, amongst other greatness, Soft Skull's own Jillian Weise writes from Buenos Aires...

Dear Big Logos,

I’m alive in tango central! I have my own apartment! Suddenly I am full of exclamation points! This place is more dashing than I ever imagined. For a city that declared its autonomy in 1994, and proceeded to suffer a catastrophic depression in 2002, things seem to be running smoothly. Slight chance of an energy crisis. The word on the street is gasoline. Instead of a White House there is a Pink House. A plaza. A cathedral. Traffic lights change from red to yellow to green. It is okay to put the pedal to the metal on a yellow. The question of what to do with dog poop on the streets is a common and controversial topic of conversation. Most of the streets are named after famous men: Alvear, Calvo, Peña, Roca. The newest neighborhood, Puerto Madera, named their streets after famous women. And many of these famous women are—guess—poets! Increiblemente. I bought an anthology of poetry out of a cardboard box marked two pesos. The poets in the anthology call themselves The Elephant School. So far, no elephants in the poems.

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