Defiant Pose

(By Stewart Home)

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“Book Descriptions: “Defiant Pose is a satirical masterpiece, as funny twenty-five years later as when it first appeared. Stewart Home captures the loquacious charm and ideological posturing of the post-political left of the Thatcher-era, pitted against itself and its right-wing nationalist enemies. Meanwhile, everybody’s sucking, fucking, wanking, rimming, reaming in pursuit of their ‘genetic destinies.’ Stewart Home’s proto-porn pageantry is the best rejoinder to Thatcher’s new enterprise culture and the proto-“discourses” of that era. Defiant Pose is a timely, timeless book.”
—Chris Kraus


Penny-Ante Editions is proud to announce a reissue of Stewart Home’s classic political satire, Defiant Pose, newly introduced by McKenzie Wark with an afterword by Home.

Named 1991’s “Book of the Year” by The Face and Gay Times out of the United Kingdom, Defiant Pose: 25th Anniversary Edition ushers an out-of-print “assault on culture” into the 21st century to meet its relevance in today’s torrid times. Employing pastiche and détournement, Richard Allen’s skinhead novels get a perverse makeover, going head to head with Hegel, Hobbes, and the heretical tracts of Abiezer Coppe in wild ride where no subject is taboo. From fashionable pseudo politics, knucklehead neo-Nazis, middle-class masculinity, the art world, and literature’s so-called “outlaws,” Home’s targets are mercilessly skewered. A contemporary of Kathy Acker born from the punk era, Home has worked outside major cultural institutions for much of his career, and is unafraid to call a spade a spade — an impulse sorely lacking in today’s culture.”