April 11, 2005

The Second-hand Book-stall

The latest incarnation has arrived...



Antiquities of the Illuminati

The Second-hand Book-stall
Presents
Some views on change and the future
from the Twentieth Century.
[Together with some comments by the compiler.]
11 APRIL 2005 c.e.

C O N T E N T S

Before we proceed...

Futurist Manifestos
The Joy of Mechanical Force by F. T. Marinetti (”The Foundation of Futurism” [”Manifesto of Futurism,” 1909], translated from the French by Eugen Weber, from Paths to the Present by Eugen Weber. Copyright 1960 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.)

Aleister Crowley
Magick in Theory and Practice. 1929-30, Dover Reprint. Introduction, pp. xii-xiii.

Aldous Huxley
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, from “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and other essays,” abridged edition, 1972. Originally published in 1956.

SPK
The Post-Industrial Strategy: EXPOSING THE CATHEDRAL OF DEATH

William S. Burroughs
The Invisible Generation and Postscript to the Invisible Generation.

Cabaret Voltaire
From The Art of the Sixth Sense, by M. Fish and D. Hallbery, 1985 edition.
A CONTEMPLATION OF DANGEROUS GAMES
SLUGGIN’ FER JESUS

Jacques Ellul
The Technological Society, pp. 412; 428-436.

William Irwin Thompson
At The Edge of History (Speculations on the Transformation of Culture) Preface (ix-xi); pp. 229-30.

James Burke
Connections, by James Burke. Introduction to the paperback edition (1995).
The Day the Universe Changed, by James Burke. Introduction to the paperback edition, 1995, pp. 7-9.

Charles Musès
Consciousness and Reality, Epilogue: Man at the Evolutionary Crossroads, p. 471-2.

Don Webb
Historical and Cultural Opportunities for the Left Hand Path.