Skip to main content
● Free US shipping on orders over $50 ● 20th Anniversary Fundraiser — Brick by Brick
PM Press
The Ghost In The Chess Machine (A6)

The Ghost In The Chess Machine (A6)

SKU: 9781909798830

$3.50
Publisher: Active Distribution
Author: Nick Blinko
Publisher: Active Distribution
ISBN: 9781909798830
Published: 2020
Format: Pamphlet
Size: 4.1 x 5.8
Page count: 12

From the publisher:

“Many years ago Nick Blinko sent me [Jon Active] a copy of this A6 pocket size zine. With just 4 or 5 simple drawings and one short story with “Chess” in the title I did wonder if anyone would be interested. We got in to a long protracted discussion through a third party about doing the bla(n)ck version of his Primal Screamer book.

Then it all went quiet.

2018 came around and a crazy jigsaw puzzle project brought Nick and I back in to regular conversation. I asked him if he’d like me to revive the anonymous Primal Screamer project. We did that, its a weird and wonderfull version that is almost unsellable outside of a “knowing” audience. That done I thought it time to do the “Chess” zine too. Nick had said he had “done a few” back in the day, but no one I knew had heard of it before. Tempting to print 20 on a risograph with a card cover and keep it as a rare, collectable and “expensive” item. But that is not what Active is about and probably not what he wanted when he asked if I was interested in it. So here it is a last , 1000 have been printed, with an old school anarcho-punk cover price. Enjoy”

Keep reading

You May Also Like

The Primal Screamer
Books

The Primal Screamer

Nick Blinko
This semi-autobiographical novel from Rudimentary Peni singer, guitarist, lyricist, and illustrator Nick Blinko, plunges into the worlds of madness, suicide, and anarchist punk.
$15.95
Options
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
Books

The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984

Ian Glasper
With a backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, punk music became self-sufficient and considerably more aggressive, blending a DIY ethos with activism to create the perfectly bleak soundtrack to the zeitgeist of a discontented youth.
$27.95
Options
Crass Reflections
Active Distribution

Crass Reflections

Alastair Gordon
Crass Reflections is a revised and extended version of Gordon’s Throwing the Punk Rock Baby Out with the Bath Water: Crass and Punk Rock a Critical Appraisal, originally published in 1996.
$15.00
The Story of Crass
Books

The Story of Crass

George Berger
Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant.
$22.00
Options
The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance
Books

The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance

Penny Rimbaud
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.
$12.00
Options
One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
Books

One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock

Dave Laing
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.
$17.95
Options
Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine
Books

Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine

Jen Angel
An analysis of the birth and life of Clamor Magazine.
$5.95
Options
Sing for Your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing Music, Writing Songs, and Booking Your Own Gigs
Books

Sing for Your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing Music, Writing Songs, and Booking Your Own Gigs

David Rovics
Succinct and to the point, David Rovics demystifies the very different skills necessary to cultivate the arts of songwriting, guitar-playing, and tour booking.
$5.95
Options
Pick up where you left off

Recently Viewed

Direct Action Gets the Goods sew-on patch
Pins, Patches & Postcards

Direct Action Gets the Goods sew-on patch

Hand-printed white ink on a black canvas sheet. This patch is sew-on, not iron-on.
$3.00
The Housing Monster, Second Edition
Books

The Housing Monster, Second Edition

prole.info
A scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it.
$15.95
Options
Home is a Verb
Active Distribution

Home is a Verb

Kes Otter Lieffe
In a shifting world, marginalised characters must face their traumas and embrace change. In their search for healing, they are brought together, finding home in the least expected of places.
$25.00
Notes On Anarchism - Chomsky (A6)
Active Distribution

Notes On Anarchism - Chomsky (A6)

Noam Chomsky
This pamphlet provides an excellent introduction to the fundamentals and guiding principles of Anarchist ideology.
$3.50