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Colin Bennett Phil O’Brien Colin Bennett
Politics of the Imagination (the life, work, and Ideas of Charles Fort) was given The Anomalist Award for Best Biography, 2002. The Foreword is by John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies, the UFO classic made recently into a film starring Richard Gere. Born in Albany, New York, Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere facade which concealed as much as it claimed to have discovered. Science, believed Fort, was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe bymeans of editing out paradoxes, contradictions, miracles, paranormal events - anything that was unusual or which did not fit into a set scheme of things. In other words science was, in the eyes of Charles Fort, pure imagination control, functioning as a set of complex advertisements. This makes Charles Fort the very first postmodern writer. Read Colin Bennett’s revolutionary prize-winning book now! *
Gary S. Bekkum wrote: “Drama requires conflict. Jack bills himself as a ‘theatrical physics doing web theater. Creativity requires passion. Jack wants to escape from mainstream science and the boring universe. Fortunately recent observations in cosmology may signal the beginning of the end of the boring universe.” The theme of this book is the possibility of “metric engineering Einstein’s curved space-time with dark energy to make weightless warp drives, star gate time travel wormholes to the inelegant parallel universes next door in hyperspace and why there is something rather than nothing.” *
Counter Culture from Head Press is a book of reviews. It is a fascinating look at the tiny fraction of the material bubbling beneath the surface of popular culture. There is coverage of Beat authors alongside S&M erotica, luminary artists alongside the production-line superheroes of DC and Marvel, hand produced booklets of severely limited numbers alongside full colour oversize coffee table tomes, tie-in books on Hollywood blockbusters alongside biographies of no-budget renegade filmmakers. Most of these reviews were published in the last decade, and the book is a marvellous reminder that under the rubble of the sterile TV permafrost of both British and American straight “official” culture the human spirit is still alive and well, though for the most part it still has holes in its pants and no means of paying the rent. Maybe it should go down on its knees and praise the gods as it walks amongst the vast hosts of the dead.
Just Out!
Attitude is the history of British street theatre and much more, by the man who created the Alternative Comedian with his own often bare knuckles. It is a definitive history of grass roots fringe theatre, and contains a detailed history of groups and performers seen over the past 25 years. The first well-written high-quality professional book of its kind, and an historical landmark. “Tony Allen is a brilliant stand-up comedian and seminal figure in the history of British comedy. Currently running workshops and gig all over the country and at festivals, this is the first volume of what he calls ‘the fruits of at least 25 years full-time work, play, and mischief’. Founder of Alternative Cabaret, he massively extended the possibilities of the stand-up format by challenging the cheap bigotry of the comedy scene, making it wild, confrontational, and absurd. The bravery and inventiveness of his work has led comedians to describe him as ‘the master’, while the Independent called him ‘a sell-out alternative who has not sold out’. Gothic Image Publications Box 2568 Glastonbury
Somerset BA6 8XR, UK. (44)
Just Out!
Mac Tonnies’ approach to the complex and heated debate over extra-terrestrial artifacts is masterful in its simplicity. He attacks a topic fraught with emotion with a matter-of-fact tack, unconcerned that his book is likely to be unsettling to readers on all sides of the Cydonia issue. But that is the beauty of After the Martian Apocalypse . . . this issue is unsettling -- with no easy answers and no clear winners in the debate. Tonnies delivers the facts and the possibilities in an unbiased yet engagingly poetic fashion. I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it." David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahedron Paraview Pocket Books ISBN: 074348293X
Instant brain photography. Compares well with Strindberg’s Occult Diary and Hunter S. Thomson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Definitely essential reading for the 21st Century. Here’s some of what you are in for: “On July first, the smoke alarm at the house in Woodstock, which had previously been disabled in a lightening storm, blatted twice as 5:34 in the morning and then ceased. Thinking this number somehow significant, I web-searched and located a professor Henry D.I. Alarbarel who was resident at Scripps Oceanographic Institute doing research into chaos theory. I was later informed that Alarbarel’s research on reflections from a shark’s skin is actually in the Ph.D dissertation of a Turkish physicist with an interest in numerology to whom I had sent the original email inquiring about the possible significance of 5:34 a.m.” Now don’t despise this folks -it has a ring of Sonnabend, who, in Lawrence Weschler’s Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder went mad analysing the memory pathways of carp. It smacks also of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and that’s good enough for anybody. But despite this, the truly terrifying claim of the author is that the book is NOT fiction. Yankee Oracle Press 511 Avenue of the Americas -PMB 173 New York NY 1001-8436 USA. A Magick mirror communication tel:212-727-0002 global or 800-356-6796 Magickorders@aol.com
Just Out! Tony Allen: A Summer in the Park Foreword by Ken Campbell
The ghosts of baying mobs and demos past all stalk this turf - mass assemblies of chartists, Victorian rioters and all those famous and infamous last words uttered by the Tyburn gallows. Hard acts to follow. ‘If you hear anyone swear at Speakers’ Corner and you’re offended by it, bless you, then you can go and tell a policeman. Then and only then, can they take appropriate action. What we can’t have here is the police going around being offended on their own initiative.’ ‘If you hear anyone swear at Speakers’ Corner and you’re offended by it, bless you, then you can go and tell a policeman. Then and only then, can they take appropriate action. What we can’t have here is the police going around being offended on their own initiative.’ My ego swells in proportion to the size of the crowd ,reminding me to transcend the cheap laugh and reveal the truth beyond. Oh yes, they don’t call me Lofty Tone for nothing. There’s a crowd of over two hundred. Up at the front, a dozen or so outraged Muslims are waving their arms in the air, shouting at the speakers and flourishing copies of the Koran; an equal number of Christians are jeering these hecklers and cheering-on the platform; open copies of the Bible can be seen above their heads with fingers pointing at bits of text. The rest of the crowd are pretty noisy as well. A lot of them are non-partisan - simply regular hecklers and thrill seekers joining in for the entertainment value. Their tone is heavily ironic but nonetheless spirited. Nothing can prepare you for the Hyde Park speaking experience. The performance dynamics are unique. The close proximity of other meetings and the robust heckling tradition make Speakers’ Corner unlike any other forum of public performance. Having an audience of easily distracted browsers harbouring hit and run snipers demands a house style of ‘dramatic conflict’ raw and obvious. A take-no-prisoners gladitorial confrontation with the speakers as devil’s advocate remains the preferred tried and tested format. Even the rough-house of street theatre is subtle by comparison.” Freedom Press (London 2004) ISBN 1-904491-04-9 £8.50
Just Out!
Fort is the great philosopher of such eternal cosmic instability. In his view, both conscious and what we like to call objective materiality run along octaves of appearances in a world of intermediate states. In his work, the absolute real and the absolute unreal of mechanistic science become Platonic approximations., impossible as the limit in the Calculus, or the contact between the lovers in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn. In this he is the first postmodern thinker of the 20th century. Just one of Charles Fort’s achievements is that he casts a new light on our great institution of Skeptical Reason. Objective factual certainty becomes wonder management, a kind of psychic scaling by means of which disturbing anomalies, paradoxes and contradictions are controlled rather verified, distanced rather objectified - if only in order to keep us sane.” Cosimo Classics www.cosimobooks.com US £14.95 ISBN 1-59605-030-6
Next Year in Jerusalem Poems by Adam Horovitz
Adam Horovitz was born in London in 1971 and raised in a thumb offshoot of the Slad Valley. He has written poetry for almost as long as he can remember and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Oral (Sceptre), The Bristol Slam Anthology (Pimp$ of the Aphabe£t) and Earth Ascending (Stride). He has read at numerous venues and festivals around the country, including Glastonbury Festival, the Bath Literature Festival, the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and at the inaugural Days of Poetry and Wine Festival in Slovenia in 1996. £2 from Hoo Hah Press 29 Horns Road Stroud GL5 1EB
Headpress is a critically acclaimed independent publishing house, at the forefront of cutting-edge publishing since 1991.Home to Headpress Journal and the book imprints Critical Vision and Diagonal, Headpress is devoted to producing stylish and distinctive books by new and celebrated writers and artists. Subject matter for Headpress books is wide ranging but can collectively be termed as “pop culture”. Headpress entered the world of book publishing in 1992 with a collection of comic strips entitled Killer Komix. The print-run - comprised of 1,000 copies in paperback and sixty numbered hardback editions - are now particularly scarce. However it was with Critical Vision in 1995, a collection of new essays and updated articles from early, out-of-print editions of Headpress, that the Headpress book imprint - Critical Vision - was launched. Dedicated to works of non-fiction, Critical Vision books cover a broad base of subject matter and have come to be regarded with some esteem word-wide.
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Introduction by Will Self, edited Julian Rothenstein & Mel Gooding A diary tells us where we were, where we should be now and where we will be in the future. It gives us the co-ordinates of a rational map of day-to-day waking time and space. But what’s going on when we’re not thinking, planning, or doing? That time we spend sleeping and dreaming? Or just dreaming? “I was miles away” we say when someone nudges us and “brings us back to earth.” Back from where and when? Other places of the mind: places where we go in our own time. The Redstone Psychological Diary presents every week of the year an image to remind us of the strange and beautiful world of the unconscious. Images drawn from many attempts psychologists to chart its terrains vagues and from their diagnostic tools and therapeutic techniques. Images by those who have entered those “other places” by way of intuition and imagination. And unforgettable images brought back by artists from the enchanted domains of madness.
THE PSYCHOBOX brings together a kaleidoscopic collection of psychological tests, optical illusions and games, together with instructions on their use. Every item invites your participation. *48 full colour cards with notes and commentaries by the editor. The cards include the colour test, the inkblot and other association tests, the drawing completion test, art images for interpretation, brilliantly diverse illusions and much more *12 page pamphlet with the editor’s introduction and preface by Jonathan Miller *A brilliant and original work of art in “reverse perspective” by Patrick Hughes This is the first new boxed collection from Redstone for five years. It will be launched with a special exhibition in October at the Freud Museum in London telephone 020 7352 1594. The Combat Diaries of the Alternative Fortean Times will be giving more details of Redstone Press publications in further issues.
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Grandchildren of Albion Live on Cassette Volume One (95 minutes) £8 each plus £1.50 p&p (incl. VAT)* NDC 23, ISBN 0-902689-15-0 Grandchildren of Albion Live on CD Volume One (78 minutes) £10.50 each plus £2 p&p (incl VAT) NDCD 24, ISBN 0-902689-16-9 (Ifgenija Simonovic’s and Adam Horovitz’s sets & Donal Carroll’s 2nd / 3rd poems omitted) Grandchildren of Albion Anthology (400-page illustrated) £9.99 plus £3 p&p@ ND17-20, ISBN 0-902689-14-2 (only sent for orders enclosing pre-payment in full, as very few copies remain) Midsummer Morning Jog Log - 700-line rural rhapsody by Michael Horovitz (Paperback edition) illustrated by Peter Blake, £3.50 plus £1 p&p ISBN 0-9504606-8-0 Wordsounds & Sightlines: New & Selected Poems by Michael Horovitz (160-page, cover by David Hockney) £6.99 plus £1 p&p* ND31, ISBN 0-902689-20-7 The POW! Anthology, edited by Michael Horovitz and Inga Elsa Laird (108-page illustrated) £6.99 plus £.150 p&p* ND 21-22, ISBN 0-902689-17-7 The POP! Anthology, edited by Michael Horovitz and Inga Elsa Laird (128-page illustrated) £7.99 plus £1.50 p&p* ND25-26, ISBN 0-902689-19-3 The POM! Anthology, edited by Michael Horovitz (80-page illustrated) £5.99 plus £1 p&p* ND32, ISBN 0-902689-21-5
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Dr. Jack Sarfatti,
the author of Super Cosmos, is a PhD in Physics (University of
California) and the author of Destiny Matrix and Space-Time and
Beyond II. He appears in Time Travel: the Art of the Possible
on Disk 2 of the DVD Special Collector’s Edition of Star Trek IV:
The Voyage Home talking about “metric engineering” with “dark
energy.” He appears also with Oxford’s David Deutsch on the Learning
Channel’s “Ultra Science” program on Time Travel. Available in
September 2004.
Doing Business in the Adirondacks by Eugenia Macer-Story
“I park my ladder on the junction of the walkway under the trees and
shout at people to go away and leave me alone. A crowd gathers. 
Cosimo Classics have prepared this new edition of Charles Fort’s 1923
book. It has the original Introduction by Booth Tarkington, and
comments on the back cover by Colin Bennett, author of the recent
biography of Charles Fort, Politics of the Imagination. Bennett
says: “There are many books that tell of sightings of ghosts, aliens,
and strange animals. But Charles Fort’s New Lands is perhaps
the only book in which whole continents, geographies, and, indeed,
planetary systems themselves are seen in the same uncertain twilight
of perception.
Open
the Psychobox and discover you are not what you seem. An inkblot, a
half-completed picture, a word. What do you make of them? What
associations do they have for you? THE PSYCHOBOX is packed with
everything you need to delve into the psyche. Open it and discover
secrets, surprises and amazements.