Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles FortCritical Vision, 2002 - 206 páginas "Politics of the Imagination "is an account of the life and work of Charles Fort (18741932). Born in Albany, New York, Fort spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere faade. In a series of books-"The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, "and "Wild Talents"-Fort argued that science was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe by editing out paradoxes, miracles, and paranormal events. "Politics "has a foreword by John Keel, whose book "The Mothman Prophecies "is now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere. |
Índice
Foreword by John Keel | 5 |
Introduction | 11 |
Imagination Wars | 27 |
Facts as Art Form | 83 |
Intermediate States | 123 |
The Quest for Oswald | 165 |
Scepticism as Mystique | 176 |
Notes | 190 |
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Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort Colin Bennett Pré-visualização limitada - 2009 |
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