Southpaw Culture

An experiment in motivated fair use reclaiming a community commons, the Southpaw Culture series happily re-publishes books found in the public domain, courageously rescues orphaned texts, and lovingly (if only occasionally) pirates previous editions of a variety of genres, from poetry to politics, from pedagogy to planning.

Instruments of social and cultural reproduction, individual Southpaw Culture books are developed for limited use by and for specific communities of learners within and without institutions of state-corporate power. They are "textooks" that make available currently unavailable content, a university press network bypassing the university press bureaucracy and the community redirect of public funds away from the corporate textbook scam.

Southpaw Culture is the infolding map various collaborative relationships and not an expression of a singular curatorial vision.