it’s on! and up! and animated!

David Rees’s Get Your War On is a great running satire of how the Iraq war gets embedded in middle-class workaday culture. Already out in print and theatrical forms, it’s now being animated and appearing online weeklyGet Your War On: The Definitive Account of George Bush's War on Terror 2001-2008

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Shop yourself into submission, at. . .

. . .The Chain Store.

Shackle Report’s online shop is open for Christmas, featuring all things shackle-related (however obliquely) accompanied by our painfully honest product descriptions.

For now we are pushing books and a bit of jewelry. But eventually, we hope to seduce you into buying a wide range of items that will help you escape the humdrum world of paying for things you bought in an effort to avoid thinking about how deeply into debt you’ve fallen.

And now, for a sample book:

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Cosmos

If you’ve ever wondered whether the human mind is a sort of shackle all on its own, this is the book you can’t finish that thought without. It is a new translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s classic (40’s) excursion into the joys and pitfalls of obsessive paranoid narrative, the nearly universal impulse to imagine that one thing leads to another. Droll, sexy and smarter than a slap, Witold has . . .

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