BOOK SERIES INDEX

Wakefield Press: Imagining Science

Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
By Charles Cros. Introduction and translation by Doug Skinner.

Establishing the author’s standing as the inventeur maudit of his time, Principles of Cerebral Mechanics was first presented to the Academy of Sciences in 1872, but was not published until 1879, and then only in >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663795
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/24/2021 In stock


Pataphysical Essays
Pataphysical Essays
By René Daumal. Translated by Thomas Vosteen. Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one. Alfred Jarry’s posthumous novel, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, first appeared in >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115563
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 116 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 In stock


The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy
The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy
By Charles Fourier. Translated by Geoffrey Longnecker. Admired by Marx and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationists, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes, the great utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) has been many things to many people: a proto-feminist, a Surrealist ancestor, a cantankerous >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115556
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 94 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Not available


An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
By Georges Perec.

One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115525
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 In stock


The Perpetual Motion Machine
The Perpetual Motion Machine
By Paul Scheerbart. In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115549
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Not available