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ReSearch Publications, by V. Vale , is one of the best editor for weird counter-culture phenomena. Cult books and magazines analyzing Punk (Search & Destroy), Industrial (Vile, Industrial Culture Handbook), cyberpunk grandfather (J.G. Ballard, W.S. Burroughs), tattoos and body modification, became the most comprehensive and passionate guides on the argoments.

PRANKS - Re/Search Publications
Just found on Youtube the Video for the Pranks! issue..

PRANKS Video VHS
''Interviews with: Mark Pauline – Founder of machine-mangling Survival Research Laboratories recounts giant billboard “improvements” done in his misspent youth. Karen Finley – Provocative performance artist: sex, food, death, and butt hairs…Joe Coleman – New York madman crashes parties with explosives wired to chest… You guess the rest! Boyd Rice – Presents the First Lady of the United States, Betty Ford, with a skinned sheep’s head on a silver platter! Frank Discussion – Intense leader of seminal punk band Feederz throws dead dog into audience… causes big stink!
Riotously funny. Shocking. Exhilarating. A critique of authoritarian language, society, and robotic behavior. This video will dazzle the brain and inspire the imagination. Directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.''

For Italian user:
La rivista Pranks, è tra i primi titoli della bibliografia del libro ''Non è vero! Disordinazioni: un'avanguardia subliminale di massa '' di Edoardo De Falchi. Le 'disordinazioni' italiane sono figlie di questo Pranks molto american style: la burla, il gioco, la presa per i fondelli, il neoismo, il nome multiplo, l'anonimato. Oltre al libro quindi: Luther Blissett, Gruppo di Piombino, Pino Boresta, Andrea Natella e via così. Trasforma la città, disordinala, derivala psicogeograficamente, crea zone temporaneamente autonome, appropriati del pubblico.