Catalogue of All Issues to Date
- #1 July 1983 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: review of local bars; "Skateboarding in Ann Arbor"; and David Bowie: Friend or Foe?
Illustrations: Comics by Terry Laban.
- #2 January 1984 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: "Sit-in Against Military Research"; "Methods of Detournement" [reprint]; and "Violent Femmes: Friend or Foe?"
Illustrations: inside cover.
- #3 May 1984 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: Gang of Four surrender!; Class War Declared!; "Body-building and the Repression of Class Consciousness"; Action in Ann Arbor against Ondine/Warholism; and "Laurie Anderson: Friend or Foe?"
Illustrations: front cover.
- #4 July 1984 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: "An Ideological tool in the Repression of the Poor"; "Towards a Critique of Hitchcock's Vertigo"; and "Will Androgyny Save Capitalism?"
Illustrations: back cover; a note about contributions.
- #5 September 1984 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: "Millionaire Businessman Tom Monaghan"; "MTV: Friend or Foe?"
Illustrations: none available.
- #6 November 1984 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: An Intro to the S.I.; Bruce Springsteen, Ronald Reagan and Capitalism; Riot by Detroit Tigers Fans; and "I Was Wrong About MTV"
Illustrations: inside cover; Ronald Reagan.
- #7 December 1984 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Texts: "Addenda/Corrections to An Intro to the S.I."; "Lennon, Ono & the Revolution"; reprint of "Arms and the Woman"; and "Off the Pigs! Or a Critique of Synchronicity."
Illustrations: none available.
- #8 July 1985 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "Fighting Star Wars to Win"; Feminist Graffiti in Buffalo; "Body Talk"; "Son of the Return of the Death of Punk"; and Situating the Pro-Situs.
Illustrations: front cover.
- #9 January 1986 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "Where the Buffalo Roam"; "The Red Hot Chili Peppers"; "Manet in situ"; George Dahl's open letter; and Cutting the Circle: Jump Cut magazine.
Illustrations: front cover; insider cover; I love Lucy; note on back issues.
- #10 July 1986 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "Public Domain's Museum of Lost Possibilities" [flyer]; "Three Candidates"; "The responsibility of Punk"; "The pornography of sex"; "The Liberty to Consume"; "Towards a Poststructuralist Marxism" [Ben Agger]; and "The Power of the Pro-Situs."
Illustrations: Comics by Uhuru Commix.
- #11 January 1987 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part I; program notes for Look, Who's Asking the Questions?; "NOT BORED! goes to the movies"; "How to listen to Popular Music"; and "The Go Go Scene: Visions of Chocolate City" [John Ulrich]
Illustrations: front cover.
- #12 May 1987 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part II; "A Defense of Apathy, the Stinking Fart in the Modern Elevator of Life So-called" [flyer]; "Heavy Brie-Thing, Or How to Make a Correct Object Choice" [pamphlet]; and two plays by Tuli Kupferberg.
Illustrations: front cover.
- #13 November 1987 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part III"; "Sympathy for the Mekons"; "Pere Ubu: Five Points of Interest"; "Derridiere Guard"; "Fearless Vampire Killers"; "The State of Boredom Today"; and a critique of "How to Talk like a Situationist."
Illustrations: back cover.
- Supplement to #13 Volume I, January 1988 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: Tables of contents for first 13 issues; index to first 13 issues; responses to "An Intro to the S.I."; responses to "Situating the Pro-Situs"; "The Death of Hardcore"; "Bang Your Head"; an open letter to Prince; and Derrida and the spectacle.
Illustrations: portrait of the publisher.
- Supplement to #13 Volume II, May 1988 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part IV"; "The Desire to Situate: In 3-D (Debord, Derrida, and de Man)"; and "Acorrespondence."
Illustrations: back cover.
- Supplement to #13 Volume III, September 1988 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "The End(s) of Iggy Pop"; abstract of "Prince's Controversy and Everyday Life"; "Yale French Studies: Everyday Life"; The Look We Look At: T.J. Clark's Long Walk Back to the Situationist International; and Derrida on de Man.
Illustrations: none available.
- #14 February 1989 (Ann Arbor, Michigan):
Special issue: The Continuing Adventures of the Cowboy Philosopher [detourned comic strip].
Illustrations: Tom Mix.
- #15 April 1989 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "Our Methods and Goals in the UB Graffiti Scandal, part V"; "Architecture & Morality"; "In & Out of Reach"; and Rushdie/Rush to Die [flyer].
Illustrations: front cover; graffiti scandal; graffiti scandal portrait of Bill Not Bored.
- #16 December 1989 (Buffalo, New York):
Texts: "On the Art Strike, part I"; "La Derive": review of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces; "William S. Burroughs"; "Christmas in the Free World" and Christmas in Panama (Radio Noriega, or The Many Moods of Manny).
Illustrations: front cover; inside cover; what is this?; map of wanderings in the Pierce Arrow complex; "passages were underlined".
- #17 July 1990 (Providence, Rhode Island):
Texts: Conflicts with Factsheet Five; review of Public Enemy's Fear of A Black Planet; and report on Providence, R.I.
Illustrations: front cover.
- #18 December 1990 (Providence, Rhode Island):
Texts: "On the Art Strike, part II"; Situationist Films in NY; translation of soundtrack of Gil J Wolman's L'Anticoncept; "Architecture & Desire"; and The Brethren of the Free Spirit.
Illustrations: front cover.
- #19 June 1991 (Providence, Rhode Island):
Texts: Text of "The Situationist Concept of Spectacle, Then and Now" [performance]; comments on Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; "Actions Taken Against Factsheet Five"; posters from France, May/June 1968; review of Dances with Wolves; and "The War in the Persian Gulf."
Illustrations: none available.
- #20 February 1992 (Providence, Rhode Island):
Texts: Factsheet Five replies; translations of assorted texts by Adam Weishaupt and other Illuminati [reprint]; first English translation of Gasche's On the Trial of Spur; comments on Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; and "What? Panties, again?"
Illustrations: front cover.
- #21 July 1992 (Providence, Rhode Island):
Texts: "Andre the Giant has a posse"; report on riots following acquittals of police officers accused of beating Rodney King; The Forty One Curses, Crises and Conspiracies of Everyday Life [performance]; "Debord's Pharmacy"; "What's the matter with money? Or, Can I count on it 2 nite?" and "Takeoff."
Illustrations: nudity and everyday life.
- #22 August 1993 (Providence, Rhode Island):
Texts: Report on Europe; "A Jew Who Chose to Live in Germany"; translation of poster from Les Nevres Nues; "Ice-T and the Gang Ceasefire in L.A."; and panties, panties, panties.
Illustrations: inside cover; inside cover detail ("Yer so fucked"); the Chinese are coming; Bill Not Bored photographed by Danish newspaper at anti-police violence demo ; back cover.
- #23 January 1995 (New York, New York):
Texts: "The Degradation of Everyday Life" [pamphlet], Bulletin From Rewrite [Re: William Burroughs], "Johnny Naked," "The Films of Guy Debord," "The Suicide of Kurt Cobain," and "Monkey Men: Devo and the Golem of Devolution."
Illustrations: front cover; existing images; live evil; back cover.
- #24 September 1995 (New York, New York):
Texts: Squat the World [pamphlet], "Defaced Advertisements," "Preliminary Report on Urban Games," "Lettrist Soundtrack Bootlegged" [audio cassette]; "On Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square," and The Spectacle of Information.
Illustrations: none available.
- #25 June 1996 (New York, New York):
Texts: Screening of film by Guy Debord; Open letter to Stewart Home; statement announcing NOT BORED!'s website; "Space is the Place"; Situationist Symphony No. 1; The American section of the Situationist International; All the things you could be right now if Raoul Vaneigem were your father; the Unabomber's manifesto; index to first 25 issues; and a Preface to a NOT BORED! anthology.
Illustrations: front cover; the eye of the beholder; pedestrian games (excerpt 1); pedestrian games (except 2).
- #26 November 1996 (New York, New York):
Texts: See Hear Bookstore boycotted; Nike advertisement Subverted; Squatters evicted from 13th street; Rage Against the Machine confronted; Unabomber for President Political Action Committee NYC; "Stop OPTO"; Boycott New Year's Eve 1999/2000; statement from the Surveillance Camera Players; proposal for the Guerilla Programming of Video Surveillance Equipment; 125th Anniversary of the Paris Commune; Dennis Rodman: De-Domesticated Man; Workers' Councils, Cornelius Castoriadis and the SI; Heatwave #1 30 Years Later; and several situationist texts in French.
Illustrations: front cover; Unabomber for President: the Conquest of Nature; Unabomber for President: the Situation is Under Control.
- #27 May 1997 (New York, New York):
Texts: An update on boycott of See Hear Books, the text of Ubu Roi used by the Surveillance Camera Players for their performance of the play, the Top-Ten Reasons Not to Buy MetroCard, translations of Guy Debord's Theses on the Cultural Revolution and of Debord & Wolman's "Why Lettrism?" a statement concerning getting copies of the video of Guy Debord's La Socit du Spectacle, a review of At Dusk: The Situationist Movement in Historical Perpsective (1975), a review of special issue of October devoted to the SI, and Yet Another Introduction to the SI.
Illustrations: front cover; back cover; poster for the Surveillance Camera Players; Unabomber for President: Pathfinder Books; Unabomber for President: Don't Blame Me; Time Out New York article.
- #28 December 1997 (New York, New York):
Texts: Review of Len Bracken's Guy Debord: Revolutionary; a reprint of and commentary upon the manifesto of the English section of the SI; a translation of and commentary upon Pierre Guillaume's essay "Guy Debord"; a review of an exhibit of art work by Jamie Reid, two statements from the New York Psychogeographical Association: No more fucking ugly buildings and Decrees of 22 November 1997
Illustrations: front cover; Amadou Diallo; modernization; cell phones (1); cell phones (2).
- #29 July 1998: (New York, New York):
Texts: The NYPA says Ban All Private Cars from Manhattan; Ride of the Midnight Marauder; MetroCard Potlatch; Drifting with the New York Psychogeographical Association; Hector Rotweiller's News from the World of Capital; statement concerning the UAW strike; review of reprint of Quattrocchi & Nairn's The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968; towards a review of Len Bracken's translation of Gianfranco Sanguinetti's "The Real [sic] Report on the Last Chance to Save Capitalism in Italy"; Bill Brown's response to Bob Black's review of Bill Brown's review of Len Bracken's Guy Debord: Revolutionary; review of Simon Sadler's The Situationist City; review of Jacques Attali's Noise; second essay on the work of Cornelius Castoriadis; TJ Clark's foreword to the forthcoming English translation of Anselm Jappe's biography of Guy Debord; Gervais Khinespre's Dark Light In A Bright Power: An Article Against The Forced Treatment Of Exceptional Others; translation of Bibliographie Guy Debord, and the LI's response to the question Does thought enlighten both us and our actions with the same indifference as the sun, or what is our hope, and what is its value?
Illustrations: front cover; back cover; ban cars from Manhattan during the day; flyer for exhibit of Bill's photos; New York Post article about Bill's arrest for anti-barricade graffiti; Bill's own account of his arrest: parts 1 and 2.
- #30 February 1999 (New York, New York):
Texts: More dumps, fewer yuppies; Yuppie Go Home?!; Lady Die mural attacked again; and a NYPA letter to the editor concerning Len Bracken; battles with the Brooklyn Cacaphony Society; the Surveillance Camera Players perform again and again and (wow!) again; Lenny Bruce's Thank You, Mask Man; Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium; subvertizement for the Cel Phone Irradiator and a thrill-packed review of Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space;
Illustrations: cell-phone radiation.
- #31 June 1999 (New York, New York):
Texts: Graffiti scandal at Vassar College; graffiti scandal in Williamsburg; the SF Mission Yuppie Eradication Project; the Surveillance Camera Players; statement about "Reclaim The Streets"; review of T.J. Clark's new book; NOT BORED! on-line; last of three essays on Cornelius Castoriadsis; review of book on Portugal.
Illustrations: Gertrude Stein and money; Communist sex kitten.
- #32 January 2000 (New York, New York):
Texts: NOT BORED! on-line; the LESC/Reclaim The Streets/CLC, aka The Borg; On the transparent society; Antonin Artaud and the Surveillance Camera Players; violence at anti-WTO protests in Seattle; Rudolph Giuliani and Adolph Hitler; and a bibliography of American situationists.
Illustrations: front cover; the baseball strike; censorship of art in Brooklyn.
- #33 September 2001 (New York, New York):
Texts: Blackout Books closes; On the NY Anarchist Tribes; Anti-gentrification actions in Brooklyn; the City's Ugliest Buildings; SCP protest at the Italian Consulate; The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement; Simulating Sinead O'Connor; unanswered questions about rough music; review of Michael Perelman's The Invention of Capitalism; and the French preface to Sanguinetti's On Terrorism and the State.
Illustrations: front cover; back cover; fake newsletter.
- #34 July 2002 (New York, New York):
Texts: Smoke Screens; A New Garden of Eden; statement by the SCP concerning 11 September 2001; Comments on The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement; Pete Townshend Gets His Wish; a reprint of Lester Bangs'Free Jazz/Punk Rock; and more!
Illustrations: front cover; back cover; Bush, Putin and Berlusconi.
- #35 July 2003 (New York, New York):
Texts: The Dark Joys of Social Control in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland; a review of recently published situationist books; Mother Nature to 9-11 Mourners: Eat My Dust; Trashing Georges Bataille, "Accursed" Stalinist; Alan Antliff's anarchism: left for dead amid the carnage; Re-code.com and Wal Mart; Laughing Lou Reed; an exchange with Anarchy magazine concerning 11 September 2001.
Illustrations: the Terminator; the Terminator (that's not funny).
- #36 July 2004 (New York, New York):
Texts: Surveillance cameras around NYU and in Chinatown; Lester Bangs: Great American Moralist; Kurt Columbine; When the cure is worse than the disease; Led Zeppelin: the Greatest TV Commercial Ever Made; Evelyn Manesta; Paul Viriolio's Strategy of Deception; Paco Ignacio Taibo's 68; An unkind reply to RETORT; The Reichstag Burns Again; Debord's letter to Sanguinetti; Debord's letter to Kloosterman; and Lebovoci's letter to Labrugere & Rouyau.
Illustrations: the global holy war against terrorism; postcards from hell; the rule of law.
- #37 May 2005 (New York, New York):
Texts: Castoriadis: Translator/Editor's Foreword to "Figures of the Thinkable"; reprint of The Strange Afterlife of Cornelius Castoriadis; Money and literature: Sancho Panza's priceless coinages, Gertrude Stein's difficult paper, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug", and Emily Dickinson's Withdrawal; On the "modern" prison: All the world's a prison; Foucault's Discipline and Punish; From Debord concerning Socialisme ou BarbarieTo Andre Frankin, 4 Feb 1961, To Andre Frankin 19 Feb 1961, To Andre Frankin, 18 March 1961, To Andre Frankin, 20 May 1961, To Attila Kotanyi, 12 July 1961, To the participants in the national conference of "Pouvoir Ouvrier," 5 May 1961 To Daniel Blanchard, 13 June 1961, To J.-L. Jollivet, 8 Dec 1961, To J.-L. Jollivet, 21 May 1962, and To J.-L. Jollivet, 6 July 1962; and Debord's Remarks on the SI Today.
Illustrations: none available.
- #38 October 2006 (New York, New York):
Texts: Guy Debord Film Retrospective; Guy Debord on the immigration question'; Raoul Vaneigem, "Foreword" to The Resistance to Christianity; Greil Marcus' book on "Like a Rolling Stone"; Pitying Paul Virilio; Paul Virilio: Another dupe of the War on Terrorism'; Gang of Four's Return the Gift; another unkind reply to RETORT; Double Deflection: October on Debord, Again; Elizabeth Bryne Ferm: Towards an Anarchist Education for Children; The secret of George W. Bush's power; and Henri Lefebvre's Writings on Cities.
Illustrations: front cover.
- #39 September 2007 (New York, New York):
Texts: NYPD spies on the Surveillance Camrera Players; A Critique of Neo-Anarchism; 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Situationist International; Guy Debord's On the Immigrant Question'; the Friends of Nemesis' On the Riots of November 2005 in France; Jean-Pierre Baudet's Signed X; Jean-Francois Martos on On the Interdiction of My Correspodence with Guy Debord, An uncontrollable from the Iron Column Protest to the libertarians of the present and the future about the capitulations of 1937; Ken Knabb's Situationist International Anthology; Raoul Vaneigem's A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings; and Os Mutantes.
Illustrations: none available.
- #40 May 2008 (Cincinnati, Ohio):
Texts: Ubiquitous Surveillance: The Mayor's New Clothes; surveillance cameras in Cincinnati; Modest Proposals for Revolutionizing the Advertising Industry;The Virtual Spectacle; Turning over a new John Zerzan; Kurt Cobain Back From the Dead; Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation.
Illustrations: front cover.
- #41 November 2009 (Cincinnati, Ohio):
Special issue: Guy Debord: Dead and Loving It (1994-2009), with texts by Debord: Psychogeographical Venice; The Asturian Strikes; On the Fire at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont; Ab Irato; Summary Note concerning the difficulties of translating Panegyric; translator's preface to Guy Debord: Letters 1957-1994; Selling Debord's Archives: Debord, a national treasure, Two hundred people dine together, Patrons lacking, and Fundraiser; Defending Debord Against: Gene McHugh, Nathan Heller, Alexander Galloway, Semiotexte, and Tiqqun; The Invisible Committee: Preface to Blanqui Anthology and Preface to The Coming Insurrection; Is The Coming Insurrection a Hoax?; The "Tarnac Affair": Interview with Julien Coupat, Situationist Inheritors, The Arrest of Tessa, An Order to Bring Down, To our judges, We are all iron bars, Three German autonomes, Tarnac, Berlin, Perousse; and Democratic Terrorization: introduction, Democratic Terrorization: interview.
Illustrations: none available.
- #42 July 2013 (New York, New York):
Special 30th Anniversary Issue: Ryan M. Rogers Reviews the NOT BORED! Anthology; Marc Lenot on Guy Debord; Guy Debord in 2009: Laughing or Spinning?; The Real Split in John McHale's Translation of The Real Split; On Gianfranco Sanguinetti's text about The Pussy; On Gianfranco Sanguinetti's text about Miroslav Tichy; What Rachel Kushner Knows About Gianfranco Sanguinetti; What Rachel Kushner Knows About Guy Debord; On Wayne Spencer's Call for a New Situationist International; McKenzie Wark's Stunted Publicity; Non Serviam: McKenzie Wark is Full of Shit; Is McKenzie Wark a Plagiarist?; Omissions and Errors in McKenzie Wark's The Spectacle of Disintegration.
Illustrations: front cover; Egad! This new issue of NOT BORED! . . . . .
- #43 (forthcoming):
On "Communisation": A Response to Sic No. 1; Liz Hoffman and Ben Rosenzweig respond to On "Communisation": A Response to Sic No. 1; The Novels of Michele Bernstein in Historical Perspective; Correspondence with a Translator: Ken Knabb Refuses to Participate in a Collective Endeavor; Asphyxiation; Luc Sante's "Low Life"; Greil Marcus' Real Life Rock;
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