Gather Rants And Incendiary Tracts By Bob Black Readable In Version

recall that when I first heard of this book, it was to be a collaboration between Adam Parfrey and my friend Peter Lamborn Wilson.
Peter left the project early on, I think because he disagreed with Parfrey as to what the value of a rant was, and because Parfrey wanted to include racists and the mindlessly violent alongside those whose flights from logic took them to more rarefied and beautiful places.
Parfrey replaced him with Bob Black, who probably wasn't as particular, but did do an adequate job of introducing the anarchist stuff that Parfrey couldn't have done justice to.
One or two of Peter's intros made the final cut,

Overall, the value of this book is in introducing folks with college degrees who are used to all the highfalutin' standards of critical thinking to examples of radicalism "from the gut.
" As such, it stays away from the more intellectual material and goes for the gusto, It gives one the chance to see that the crazies have always been out there sometimes prophetic, sometimes wiser than they at first seemed, nearly always amusing.
Some names will be familiar: Max Stirner, the Marquis de Sade, Anton LaVey others should be more familiar than they are: Louis Lingg, Kerry Thornley, LouisFerdinand Celine and others are fascinating in their obscurity: Captain Bellamy, Gerry Reith, Renzo Novatore.
Satanists will be interested to see the actual source of the plagiarized section of the Satanic Bible: Ragnar Redbeard'spublication "Might is Right!" The famous SCUM Society for Cutting Up Men Manifesto by Valerie Solanas is also included, as is Sergei Nechayev's ofttranslated "Revolutionary's Catechism.
" Many of these sources can be found easily online today, but having them crowded together in one book vying for the soapbox can be useful.
Suspend yourpolitical correctness and hear the words of the anarchists, nihilists, murderers, libertarians, ludites, satanists, Not your usual read, something that I picked up at the Anarchists Book Shop in San Francisco years ago and it stuck to my shelf.
Sometimes it is good to know what goes on in the mind of those that have drop their composure to reveal there fury and guile in the form of words, many times on the gallows after carrying out heinous crimes against there fellow humans.

Strong stomach and a degree of separation, a very different and revealing book, This book changed my life, People usually say that about books by Nicholas Sparks or Judy Blume books that validate their teen angst or whathaveyou, And in that respect, it's the same for me, But instead of a lovestruck tween obsessed with my school's quarterback, I was a snarky goth punk who picked up this book in an occult bookstore and saw, for the first time in all it's terrifying and addictive glory, the actual power of the written word.
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some questionable material in here including oneif not both!of the editors, None of the rants managed to make me hyped, and based upon the excerpts, there's nothing I want to read in full,

The one exception being Louis Lingg's court speech, an INCREDIBLE compilation, includes chtelgov's 'new urbanism' futurist rant Funny how these GoodReads thingies always seem to just list one author, This bk is a collection of Rants: "Voices of Desperate Illuminationto Present" edited by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey, It's published by Amok Press amp Loompanics from the days when Parfrey was still associated w/ Amok before he split off amp created Feral House.
This is a thorough collection from an eclectic group, "To hold an opinion and dare to express it is the final prerogative of the free man, Announcing an incendiary truth may be the last remaining vestige of human dignity, "

This is an assortment of texts extracted from several radicals, visionaries, outcasts and plain old criminals spanning almostyears, As explained in the foreword, there is no particular focus regarding the contents of these rants, so the range of religious, social and political persuasions that find representation here is pretty wide.
Curated by the late Adam Parfrey and Bob Black, the material succeeds in being either illuminating or baffling, but almost always provocative and entertaining,

Most of the chapters are very short rarely longer thanpages and are excerpts from other works, so if anything catches your interest you'll need to look for the full version elsewhere.


A few standout bits:

Marquis de Sade's crucial Philosophy in the Bedroom,
Anarchist bomber Louis Lingg's Speech of the Condemned made after being sentenced to death by hanging and prior to killing himself instead by blowing up his face.

Ragnar Redbeard's Might is Right later borrowed by Anton LaVey for his Satanic Bible,
A fragment from serial rapist/killer Carl Panzram's colorful autobiography,
Céline's problematic but hilarious Bagatelles pour un Massacre,
Renzo Novatore's call to arms Iconoclasts, Forward! written not long before ending up dead during a police shootout,
Valerie "I Shot Andy Warhol" Solanas' SCUM Manifesto,
Kerry Thornley's conspiranoid The Nine Secrets of Mind Poisoning at a Distance,
Earth First! representative Miss Ann Thropy's environmentalist piece Population and AIDS, It's a book of rants from people with POVs about shit, Could be the government, the crappiness of people, women going to the theatre, old timey outrage about the king or something, It varies. The rants are short and go chronologically starting withs, I'm gonna say the first quarter of this book was impenetrable to me, Either I've destroyed my cognitive function beyond repair with Pinot Grigio or I was just not that smart to begin with but I just glazed over reading about half of these things.
But the rest of them were either funny, interesting or at least understandable, Some even called for the highlighter in a few spots, Anton La Vey's Misanthropia or the comic strip one were probably my faves, The Celine one let me know why people are iffy about Celine, All of entries have a fun, sometimes snarky intro from one of the editors,

"That's all I have to say about that, " S. C. S Austin Prelude Adam Parfrey
Foreword Bob Black
from The Monstrous Regiment of Women John Knox
from The PleasureLoving Modern Woman William Prynne
from A Fiery Flying Roll Abiezer Coppe
s Pirate Rant Captain Bellamy
A Fair Dream and a Rude Awakening JeanPaul Marat
from Philosophy in the Bedroom Marquis de Sade
King Steam anonymous Luddite
earlys from Harrah! ou la Revolution par les Cosaques Couerderoy
A Sentimental Bankruptcy Charles Fourier
from The Ego and Its Own Max Stirner
from Murder Karl Heinzen
from No Treason Lysander Spooner
The Revolutionary's Catechism Sergei Nechayev
s Dynamite! T.
Lizius
Speech of the condemned Louis Lingg
s Speech to Missionaries Red Jacket, Seneca leader
s An exchange Judge Roy Bean amp Judged Beaner
Voters Strike! Octave Mirbeau
from Might is Right Ragnar Redbeard
from Degeneration Max Nordau
Manifesto of Lust Valentine de SaintPoint
AnarchoFuturist Manifesto A.
L. and V. L. Gordin
Iconoclasts, Forward! Renzo Novatore
Literature and the Rest Philippe Soupault
from The Anathema of Zos Austin Osman Spare
General Security: The Liquidation of Opium Antonin Artaud
I Wish You All Had One Neck Carl Panzram
s from The Eternal Youth Ralph Chubb
from Bagatelles pour un Massacre LouisFerdinand Céline
from Darkness Ezra Pound
The Poets' Dishonor Benjamin Péret
from Listen, Little Man Wilhelm Reich
Formulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov
Concerning New YearAyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
s Ball of the Freaks Anon.

There is a Great Deal to be Silent About Emmett Grogan
from SCUM Manifesto Valerie Solanas
Plea for Courage Mel Lyman
P.
O. W. Statement Timothy Leary
On Fear The Process Church
s Occupy the Brain! Carsten Regild amp Rolf Börjlind
from Never Again! Rabbi Meir Kahane
mids Situationist Liberation Front Situationist International
from The Invisibles Thibaut D'Amiens
Misanthropia Anton Szandor La Vey
The Anthropolitical Motivations Stanislav Szukalski
The Correct Line Bob Black
Investment in Survival Kurt Saxon
The Roots of Modern Terror Gerry Reith
from Meese Commission Report on Pornography Park Elliott Dietz, M.
D.
Reward of the Tender Flesh Ed Lawrence
The Nine Secrets of Mind Poisoning at a Distance Kerry Wendell Thornley
L'Revolucion Pour Neant Pascal Uni
Sammy Prole Gets Tough John Crawford
Population and AIDS Miss Ann Thropy Earth First!
Out of the Magic of Venom: Creation Kathy Acker
Intellectual S amp M is the Fascism of thes Hakim Bey.