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Semeotext(e) Tees

Over the last quarter century or so the legendary Semeotext(e) might have published some of the most in-your-face powerful thinking and fiction ever. Their writers –– Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Felix Guatari, etc. –– sure had a boatload to say about the pros and cons of technological advances (Sol Yurick’s Metatron –– “Behold, Metatron, the recording angel” –– was, even in that company, a stand out). But, all that prescience and more aside, semiotext(e) only just now finally launched a web site. Better late than never –– with the intellectual underground the call to action apparently still logically precedes the taking of action. To commemorate the event, semiotext has a new T-shirt. What else is a web site good for, if not swag? The slate gray and olive drab shirts with pink text by the late Kathy Acker augurs a new dawn of literary militant chic. On the front it reads: "The Sand in Algeria is Pink". And on the back: "Life in this America Stinks".