Amok Fourth Dispatch: Sourcebook of the Extremes of Information in Print by Stuart Swezey and Brian King (editors)
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Overview: "The most fantastic book catalog in the world, for a store that was out of stock on almost everything in said catalog. Still an amazing resource for fringe culture stuff." — Goodreads review
From the back cover:
"The AMOK FOURTH DISPATCH offers over two thousand five hundred book titles for sale by mail in this heavily illustrated catalog. The books offer unflinching looks at mayhem, virus, and decay; dissections of the current global power structure; sexual impulses spinning out of control; psychiatric tyranny and schizophrenia; tribal rituals and ethnographic documents; psychedelic reality-maps; the tactics of individual subversion and autonomy; and other stark visions of our time.
Inside this unique document, AMOK fingers the pulse of deviance–raw data in the form of: forensic medical texts and CIA torture manuals, behavior control techniques, biographies of serial killers and porno queens, fire and brimstone fundamentalist fulminations, Satanist manifestos and Santeria spellbooks, Nudist Colony guidebooks and psychotropic film directories, human oddities picturebooks and UFO abduction accounts, riot control technologies and AIDS as biological warfare, the abolition of work and Situationism, keeping a severed head alive and creating a false ID, holocaust revisionists as well as the African roots of Western civilization, necrophilia and gay truckstop sex, and countless other manifestations of the bizarre and provocative.
The FOURTH DISPATCH also examines the human imagination in print–the desperate, the depraved, the decadent, drawing from such previously under-recognized realms of fiction as hard-boiled pulp writers, Cyberpunk science fiction, blaxploitation novels, Surrealists and Symbolists, Sado-Masochistic Erotica, as well as comprehensively placing such literary eminences as Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky in a post-industrial context."
Originally published 1990.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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