Apocalypse Culture
by Adam Parfrey
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""Apocalypse Culture" is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century."-J.G. BallardTags
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Very strange book about people occupying the fringes of society, holding views, conducting practices that would make most of us squirm. But sometimes you have to turn the rock over and find out what lies beneath...
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Adam Parfrey was born in Los Angeles, California on April 12, 1957. He co-founded Amok Press with Kenneth Swezey in 1986. Parfrey was also the founder and publisher of Feral House Press. He was the author or editor of several books including It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps; Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the show more Big Eyes; Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society; and Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind. He was the co-editor of Exit magazine and appeared in and co-wrote Crispin Glover's controversial What Is It? Parfrey and his band, the Tards, recorded two CDs. He died on May 10, 2018 at the age of 61. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Apocalypse Culture
- Original publication date
- 1987
- Epigraph
- There is nothing more terrifying than stupidity.
- Werner Herzog - Disambiguation notice
- This is the original anthology and not the substantially different revised edition.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Art & Design, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 001.1 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Knowledge and learning in general Intellectual history, the development of ideas, the role of intellectuals in society
- LCC
- CB430 .A66 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization By period
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
