Against the written word : toward a universal illiteracy / Ian F. Svenonius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svenonius, Ian F. (Ian Folke), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing--Miscellanea.

Writing.

Popular culture.

Civilization.

United States--Politics and government--Miscellanea.

United States.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Art--History and criticism.

Art.

American wit and humor.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Drama.

Essays.

Humor.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xxii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, 2023

Summary:

"Against the Written Word is the most important, most revolutionary book produced since the advent of the printing press; the book that will liberate readers from reading, writers from writing, and booksellers from peddling their despicable wares. This book ushers in a new era of freedom from reading and all its attendant bedfellows such as Enlightenment thinking and the mass alienation wrought by the phonetic alphabet. Against the Written Word will be a tremendous best seller and simultaneously the last book that anyone will read. With nineteen essays ripping, shredding, tearing apart all the bugaboos that haunt humanity nowadays, Against the Written Word is a must-read for any aspiring radical or would-be gnostic who has a penchant for words, thought, clothes, intoxicants, music, art, expression, etc. The work is presented in a range of writing: essays, screenplays, lectures, sci-fi stories, and manifestos, with topics that include "the rise of incorporated man," "tourism as the neoliberal mode of military occupation," a workshop on songwriting for the purpose of suggestion and mind control, and many more."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I AGAINST THE WRITTEN WORD

1. Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy

2. The Grand Tour: The Neoliberal Army Pays Its Own Way

3. "I Survived Reeducation Camp": A Workshop on Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Songwriting

4. Me, Inc.: The Rise of Incorporated Man and the Origins of Instagram

pt. II RETURN TO REEDUCATION CAMP

5. "I Remember Frankenstein"

6. Declaration of Rights of the Audience

7. How to Build a Straw Man: A Golem of One's Own

8. The Military-Industrial-Guilt Complex

9. The Urgent Need for Cloud Reform

10. Possible Letter from John Wayne to Jane Fonda

pt. III THE EROTIC LIVES OF MACHINES

11. Free Will in the Cyber Age

12. The Museum of Sex Acts

13. Erotic Fiction

14. Lash Lindsay at Hume House

15. The Reviews Reviewed: A Play in One Act

16. Listener Production Is Down

17. Toward a Christian Pornography

18. S.T.E.M.: Society to Eradicate Marijuana

pt. IV ALPHABET REFORM

19. Manifesto of the People's Provisional Army for Alphabet Reform.

Notes:

"AKB700"--Spine

ISBN:

9781636140803

1636140807

OCLC:

1315537305