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Ian F. Svenonious

    Ian Svenonius is a musician and author whose works are unified by an anti-authoritarian, populist, and tongue-in-cheek political agenda. As a singer and creative force, he has fronted influential bands that blended garage rock, soul, and elements of what he termed "liberation theology" into a distinctive new genre. His musical projects and written works consistently challenge authority with a playful, ironic sensibility. Svenonius's art invites readers and listeners to question societal norms and power structures.

    Against The Written Word
    • Against The Written Word

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.0(62)Add rating

      "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

      Against The Written Word