{"product_id":"re-search-no-1-1980-1988-searchlight-reprint","title":"RE\/SEARCH — NO. 1 (1980), 1988 SEARCHLIGHT REPRINT","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally Published by:\u003c\/strong\u003e RE\/Search, San Francisco, 1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis Edition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reprinted by Searchlight Publishing, 1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor:\u003c\/strong\u003e V. Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover Photographs:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ruby Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tabloid on newsprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 29.2 × 22.9 cm folded (11.5 × 9 in); 45.8 × 29.2 cm open (18 × 11.5 in)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good — showing age-related wear throughout the format, consistent with its age and original newsprint construction. The cover and interior pages display visible signs of handling and natural deterioration over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of \u003cem\u003eRE\/Search\u003c\/em\u003e emerged from the underground publishing network V. Vale had developed through \u003cem\u003eSearch \u0026amp; Destroy\u003c\/em\u003e, the influential San Francisco punk newspaper he founded in 1977. Published in 1980, the inaugural issue established the territory that would define \u003cem\u003eRE\/Search\u003c\/em\u003e for decades to come: industrial music, punk, experimental literature, transgressive culture, outsider practices, conspiracy, and the intellectual margins of contemporary society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than functioning simply as a music magazine, \u003cem\u003eRE\/Search\u003c\/em\u003e positioned itself as an open-ended investigation into the cultural underground. The first issue moves freely between music, literature, politics, science fiction, noise, Situationism, sexuality, and paranoia, creating the collision of subjects that would become one of the publication's defining characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents include Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, The Slits, Non, Factrix, Young Marble Giants, Sun Ra, and Japan, alongside writers such as J.G. Ballard, Julio Cortázar, and Octavio Paz. Additional material examines Situationism, nuclear disaster, punk prostitutes, \u003cem\u003eSoldier of Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e, rhythm and noise, and various forms of conspiracy. Contributors and collaborators include photographer Ruby Ray, artist Paul Mavrides, and Nico Ordway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue is also significant for the visual language established by Ruby Ray, whose photography became closely associated with the San Francisco punk and industrial underground. Printed cheaply on newsprint and presented in tabloid format, the publication deliberately retained the physical immediacy of an underground newspaper rather than adopting the conventions of a conventional music or art journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 1988 edition was reprinted by Searchlight Publishing and reproduces the original 1980 issue. It belongs to the period immediately preceding the series of \u003cem\u003eRE\/Search\u003c\/em\u003e books that would establish V. Vale's publishing project as an international reference for underground and countercultural research, including \u003cem\u003eIndustrial Culture Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eModern Primitives\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reprint is particularly useful as a surviving edition of the original tabloid format: inexpensive, fragile, and visually direct, preserving the publication before \u003cem\u003eRE\/Search\u003c\/em\u003e evolved primarily into the book and monographic format for which it later became known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is the 1988 Searchlight Publishing reprint, as identified on the back cover, and is not the original 1980 first printing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RE\/Search","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67647019680032,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0878\/0202\/0128\/files\/research-1-v-vale-1988-reprint-cover-intermission.jpg?v=1791258227","url":"https:\/\/intermissionbooks.com\/products\/re-search-no-1-1980-1988-searchlight-reprint","provider":"intermission books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}