Download or read book The Techno pagan Octopus Messiah written by Ian Winn and published by I.M.P. Fiction. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part bizarre quest, part unique travelogue, part fiction, part fantasy, The Techno-Pagan Octopus Messiah is an extraordinary tale of Amazonian drugs, prophetic dreams and adventurous treks through Egypt, Rajastan and Northern India. Loosely based around his own experiences, Ian Winn disguises himself as a tourist and, catalysed by drugs from the Amazonian rain forest, takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic trip to places where crystals are dragon eggs, free love is expensive and tourist massacres mean discount hotels.
Download or read book Hacker Hoaxer Whistleblower Spy written by Gabriella Coleman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets” “A work of anthropology that sometimes echoes a John le Carré novel.” —Wired Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the battles over WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside–outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notoriously mysterious subculture, whose semi-legendary tricksters—such as Topiary, tflow, Anachaos, and Sabu—emerge as complex, diverse, politically and culturally sophisticated people. Propelled by years of chats and encounters with a multitude of hackers, including imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond and the double agent who helped put him away, Hector Monsegur, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age, including the history of “trolling,” the ethics and metaphysics of hacking, and the origins and manifold meanings of “the lulz.”
Download or read book The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah written by Ian Muir Winn and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day after a weekend with Terence McKenna, I was offered DMT by a woman I'd never met... "If you are looking for something different, try Ian Winn's debut novel... It has all the travel fiction requisites in spades: trippy drugs, local eccentrics and dirty dreadlocks, as Winn recounts his journey from the pyramids of Egypt to the beaches of Goa with crazed enthusiasm and humour." -- The Sunday Times "Inventive, brilliantly realised characters... the book displays a rampant thirst for mysticism and self-discovery. One cannot help being won over by Winn's enthusiasm and intellectual energy." -- The Times "Strangely gripping." -- The Scotsman "If you meet a man named Ian Winn at a party, make your excuses and run." -- The Big Issue "I loved (this) book. Could not put it down until I finished it. This novel runs perilously close to pornography, shocks, startles, pushes to the limits of decency. But the most startling thing of all is that it conforms to the age old prophesy that the second coming of Christ will come when and where you least expect it. I am not concerned with the idea that the second coming will be an actual person (I doubt if the first coming was an actual man) but will be a new kind of consciousness breaking in on mankind." -- Robert A. Johnson, Jungian analyst and best-selling author of He, She, We, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche and Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
Download or read book The Octopus Speaks written by Ian Winn and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Author's note: imho this work is best enjoyed as an audiobook on the listening device of your choice. Please regard printed and Kindle editions as scripts.) Spoken Word at its sparkling, hilarious best. Featuring excerpts from Mercury in Retrograde, a show critics describe as "cancelled due to clinical psychosis" and The Scotsman called "Strangely gripping." God: tackled! Vegetarians: slain! Cults: joined! Drugs: differentiated! America: explained! "Headlining performance artist Ian Winn, a California marine-biology graduate turned expatriate spoken-word sensation took top honors at several major poetry slams in England (and) opened for superstar rave DJ's such as Paul Oakenfold at London nightspots. Winn's live shows are an alloy of satirical, politically-tinged, stand-up comedy... and memorized, hyperkinetic readings of the poems in his novel."-- Denver Westword "Fresh Talent. Plunges into the Third World Experience and displays a rampant thirst for mysticism and self-discovery. One cannot help being won over by Winn's enthusiasm and intellectual energy."-- The Times regarding Winn's debut novel, The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah "Strangely gripping."-- The Scotsman "Sharp writing, amusing vignettes"-- The Telegraph "Get on a Winn-ing streak. With his energetic performance poetry, Ian Winn is a leading star on the spoken word circuit."-- The Guardian "Witty, perceptive, ridiculous!"-- The List (Edinburgh Fringe Review) "Rockin' the world of verse, slam poet Ian Winn drives 'em wild."-- Phoenix New Times
Download or read book The Vertigo Years written by Philipp Blom and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how changes from the Industrial Revolution prior to World War I brought about radical transformation in society, changes in education, and massive migration in population that led to one of the bloodiest events in history.
Download or read book Introducing Anthropology of Religion written by Jack David Eller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and readable survey introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of contemporary world religions. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers all of the traditional topics of anthropology of religion, including definitions and theories, beliefs, symbols and language, and ritual and myth, and combines analytic and conceptual discussion with up-to-date ethnography and theory. Eller includes copious examples from religions around the world – both familiar and unfamiliar – and two mini-case studies in each chapter. He also explores classic and contemporary anthropological contributions to important but often overlooked issues such as violence and fundamentalism, morality, secularization, religion in America, and new religious movements. Introducing Anthropology of Religion demonstrates that anthropology is both relevant and essential for understanding the world we inhabit today.
Download or read book Cinema and Experience written by Miriam Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kracauer. Film, medium of a disintegrating world. -- Curious Americanism. -- Benjamin. Actuality, antinomies. -- Aura: the appropriation of a concept. -- Mistaking the moon for a ball. -- Micky-maus. -- Room-for-play. -- Adorno. The question of film aesthetics. -- Kracauer in exile. Theory of film.
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Download or read book The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction Fantasy written by Sean McMullen and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers all Australian science fiction and fantasy authors, books and stories, as well as important magazines, sub-genres and works published electronically.
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Download or read book The Mindful Path through Worry and Rumination written by Sameet M. Kumar and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you find yourself ruminating about things you can't control? Worrying about those yet-to-complete goals and projects? What about just feeling like you're not the person you want to be? People who worry and ruminate find it difficult to stop anxiously anticipating future events and regretting or rethinking past actions. Left unchecked, this tendency can lead to mental health problems such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder. The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination offers powerful mindfulness strategies derived from Buddhist spiritual practices and proven psychological techniques to help you stop overthinking what you can't control-the future and the past-and learn how to find contentment in the present moment.
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