MAINLINE THE CHAOS
Speedball Books publishes ways for readers to dance intimately with the disorder, contradictions, and delicious intensity of contemporary life.
We seek books that move between art and theory, poetry and politics, philosophy and lived experience. We are interested in post-Claude intellectual velocity, noemic risk, and ideas that vacate cherished intellectual categories.
Our authors include novelists, artists, philosophers, poets, critics, hackers, mystics, cultural historians, and others who can’t seem to stay in their assigned lanes.
We are not interested in consensus. Nor are we interested in transmission. We are interested in rebasing all forms of human expression.
Speedball Books is a publishing house for the proto- and post-cultural subterraneans, and for intellects that vacillate between mania and despair.
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Books for the Cultural Underground
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THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED MORE OF WHAT IT HAS
Speedball Books publishes fiction, theory, criticism, poetry, art books, manifestos, literary manifestations, memoirs, hybrid and fragmented works that exist between genres and disciplines, and between all worlds deviant and divine.
We are interested in foolish intellectual risk, reckless aesthetic experimentation, and forms of literary practice that alter perception (for both writer and reader).
Fiction
Stories that challenge perception, disrupt conventions, and imagine new possibilities for living and thinking.
Theory
Ideas that interrogate contemporary culture, technology, philosophy, and the structures that shape everyday life.
Criticism
Independent writing that engages art, literature, media, and society with rigor, and conviction.
Poetry
Language distilled into its most transformative form, revealing connections between the personal, political, and mythic.
Art Books
Publications that document, expand, and experiment with artistic practice beyond the limits of exhibitions and traditional formats.
Manifestos
Urgent declarations, and calls to action that challenge the status quo and propose new cultural, and artistic possibilities.