Product Description: Disinformation's “wicked warlock” Richard Metzger presents the most compelling interviews from the hit TV series Disinformation - mind-blowing thoughts from modern culture's most radical thinkers:
· Robert Anton Wilson on The Illuminati and Aleister Crowley
· Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, The Filth, JLA, X-Men) describes sex magick, Hollywood's interest in underground culture and the best alien abduction story you'll ever hear!
· Howard Bloom (The Lucifer Principle) on the coming biological apocalypse
· Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) describes what it's like to be the leader of your own cult
· Artist Joe Coleman's collection of weird stuff
· Douglas Rushkoff explains media viruses
· New York's most outrageous performance artist Kembra Pfahler
· Artist Paul Laffoley tells how to build a time machine and solve the housing shortage by growing houses from plants
· Duncan Laurie reveals the forbidden science of radionics
· Peter Russell on ecological doomsday and spiritual renewal
· The apocalyptic visual parables of religious painter Norbert H. Kox
Hosted by Disinformation® co-founder Richard Metzger, the Disinformation television series caused quite a stir when it aired on the UK's Channel 4 TV network. The first season was bizarrely scheduled after Ally McBeal and surely messed with the heads of more than a few fans of that show; the second season went even further in challenging the network's censors, resulting in Channel 4 refusing to air certain segments. Nonetheless, the series was a hit and was bought by SCI FI Channel in the United States. They didn't quite realize what they'd paid for, apparently, and never aired the programs. The interviews in this book represent the “intellectual” side of the series; the more “insane” pieces, such as the mayhem of the legendary Uncle Goddamn segments, are contained on the companion DVD.
A little light but I like the Disinfo series ^ Read Book of Lies (Disinfo version). Now that's a fantastic reference manual to the esoteric. This one I bought for a few individuals.
A happy accident ^ I first picked up this book out of curiousity when it was among the "Staff Picks" at Forbidden Planet book shop in NYC.
Challenging interviewing that gets to the core can only come from a writer who chooses to be interested as well as interesting.I always like when work like this is smart but not detached. By the very exploration of such arcania, there is no detachment and Metzger doesn't pretend there isn't.
So many books on these subjects are either uncredible as crack pot advocacy, or conversely are snarky oh-so-cynical jabs at the subject's expense. A voice like Metzger's is refreshing and cool. Welcome is a writer who can be present in style, yet confident to know it isn't about him. Keep them coming Richard.
Hello to the "reality " check ^ If you believe everything you hear from the Bush Administration, if you believe what your told by the media tycoons such as AOL/Time Warner - DON'T READ THIS BOOK!
Seeming weened on the internet of unlimited exploration and assimilation, Metzger has an unquenchable thirst for those creative and daring personalities operating "outside of the box". With a charismatic passion for the lunatic fringe, Metzger suspends judgment and delves into the psychosis of individuals who dare to examine the means of normative thought production.
Knowing first of Metzger's work as an interviewer as well as editor, I became aware of the illuminating and brilliant thinking of Douglas Rushkoff interpreting future media, along with the utopian dreams of Paul Laffoley and Peter Russell. It's true that Metzger "participates" rather than "observe", but he's clearing taking it all in, and so will you.
No other source will give you such an overview of "reality" as it is meant to be in real time.
A volatile subcultural primer ^ This book is comprised of selections from nearly a dozen important interviews conducted for the Disinformation television series, which unfortunately most Americans have never been allowed the opportunity to see. That may change soon with the release of the Disinformation DVD, but in the meantime this book gives you an excellent overview of the varied thinkers, artists, and pop-cultural agents provocateurs whom Richard Metzger had the good sense to engage in conversation.
All of the material here is extremely thought-provoking and these subjects are fascinatingly articulate in presenting their distinctive worldviews.
Generally the mainstream media avoids any acknowledgment of the sort of ideas you will be exposed to here, which is no wonder since after encountering some of these lines-of-thinking, you'll probably have little use left for the opinions of the status quo.
With its slick packaging and design, this book is akin to a glittering trojan horse, loaded with an army of hardened suicide bombers who will feel no pain as they detonate all your preconceptions. Open the gates!
Visionary Artists and Brilliant Ideas ^ Another wonderful book from the disinfo crew. Unlike the past volumes, this one includes brilliant color reproductions of some truly mindblowing art. Richard Metzger has had the courage to challenge the system over the years, and has somehow managed to get some pretty insane stuff out over the airwaves. This book documents some of his finer moments, and it is great to see some of these groundbreaking artists get the attention they so rightly deserve. A fantastic book that I STRONGLY RECOMMEND.
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