RE/Search
RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded and edited by Andrea Juno and V. Vale in 1980. It was the successor to Vale's earlier punk rock fanzine Search & Destroy (1977–1979), and was started with $100 from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.[1] RE/Search itself began as a tabloid-sized magazine.
The first issue had photographs by Ruby Ray and articles on Factrix, The Slits, conspiracies (written by Jay Kinney), Young Marble Giants, Boyd Rice's Non, Cabaret Voltaire, Sun Ra, flashcards, Japan, J. G. Ballard, Julio Cortázar, rhythm & noise, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Throbbing Gristle, nuclear disaster, Situationism, Octavio Paz, and punk prostitutes. It was distributed by Rough Trade. Following the third issue, issues 4 and 5 were collected as a single volume, a "special book issue". Subsequent issues all retained the book format.
RE/Search has published books on various underground topics. Titles include Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, and Modern Primitives, and the subject matter includes profiles of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and others.
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RE/Search numbered volumes
- RE/Search #1,2 and 3: Tabloid format zine. RE/Search Publications, 1980–1981.
- RE/Search #4/5: William S. Burroughs/Brion Gysin/Throbbing Gristle. RE/Search Publications, 1982. ISBN 0-9650469-1-5
- RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook. RE/Search Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-940642-07-7
- RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook, Limited Hardback Edition. RE/Search Publications, 2006. ISBN 978-1-889307-16-9
- RE/Search #8/9: J. G. Ballard. RE/Search Publications, 1984. ISBN 0-940642-08-5
- RE/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films RE/Search Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-940642-09-3
- RE/Search #11: Pranks!. RE/Search Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-9650469-8-2
- RE/Search #12: Modern Primitives. RE/Search Publications, 1989. ISBN 0-940642-14-X
- RE/Search #13: Angry Women. RE/Search Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-940642-24-7
- RE/Search #14: Incredibly Strange Music Vol. I. RE/Search Publications, 1993. ISBN 0-940642-22-0
- RE/Search #15: Incredibly Strange Music Vol. II. RE/Search Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-940642-21-2
- RE/Search #16: Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Ritual, 2001 ISBN 1-889307-10-6
Other RE/Search titles
- The Atrocity Exhibition, J. G. Ballard. Revised large-format paperback edition, with annotations by the author and illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner. RE/Search Publications, 1990. ISBN 0-940642-18-2
- Bob Flanagan: Super Masochist, Bob Flanagan,1993. ISBN 0-940642-25-5
- Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, Daniel P. Mannix ISBN 0-9651042-5-7
- The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids, Paul Spinrad 1994. ISBN 0-940642-28-X reissued 1999. ISBN 1-890451-04-5
- Punk '77, James Stark, 2006. ISBN 1-889307-14-9
- V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Zines Vol. I. ISBN 0-9650469-0-7
- V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Zines Vol. II. ISBN 0-9650469-2-3
- V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Search & Destroy Volume I: Issues 1-6. ISBN 1-889307-00-9
- V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Search & Destroy Volume II: Issues 7-11. ISBN 0-9650469-4-X
- V. Vale (ed.) (2001) Real Conversations No. 1. ISBN 1-889307-09-2
- V. Vale (Ed.) (2005). J.G. Ballard: Conversations" (excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-13-0
- V. Vale (Ed.) and Mike Ryan (Ed). (2005). J.G. Ballard: Quotes (excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-12-2
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