RE/Search
| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1980 |
| Founder | V. Vale, Andrea Juno |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
| Products | Books |
| Website | researchpubs.com |
RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded by its editors Andrea Juno and V. Vale in 1980. It was the successor to Vale's earlier punk rock fanzine Search & Destroy (1977–1979), which was started with $200 provided to Vale by 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.
RE/Search was the subject of a special issue of the European Journal of American Studies (August 2011, Vol. 30 issue 2), including an examination of "the growth and decline of RE/Search as a commercial enterprise dedicated to documenting and, in effect, marketing selected countercultural trends" that suggests "the Internet has provided a more efficient means of transmitting subcultural memes, rendering RE/Search commercially and otherwise unviable as a promoter and popularizer of subcultural trends and tendencies."[2]
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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: The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids, Paul Spinrad 1994. ISBN 0-940642-28-X reissued by Juno Books 1999. ISBN 1-890451-04-5
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
- Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Ritual, 2001 ISBN 1-889307-10-6
- 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
