Rapid Eye 2

Painters, cyberpunks, dog-boys, mad scientists, occultists, neoists, performance artists, film-makers, writerss, leopard-girls and voodoo horsemen. Hacking into the new virtual geography, where time and space do not exist, but where thought survives, as in art. In this age of transition and sensory overload, new ideas and organisations of perception form. To be marginalised, misunderstood, ignored, reviled. But melancholy can fuel creation. Imagination can replace fantasy. Hope can overcome fear. Different interpretations of the past and fresh approaches to art and technology can ensure the evolution and refinement of the perception of everyday life. In the virtual universe, there is no death.

Topics and personalities in this, the second volume, include the following mystics and lunatics:

Michael Anthony Hoffman
Paul Mayersberg
Lobsang Rampa
Richard Kern
cinema of transgression
Jörg Buttgereit
HP Lovecraft
the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
Aaron Williamson
Carlos Castaneda
magick
Genesis P-Orridge
Alex Sanders
Savoy Books
mondo movies
Neoism?!
Istvan Kantor/Monty Cantsin
Hélène Cixous
Alexandra David-Néel
and more…

Back Cover Blurb wrote:
Artists hanging dead dogs in railway tunnels, religious icons floated in urine, police raids on writers' homes; RAPID EYE reflects the fact that the millenial madness is breaking over our heads, ready for the Reckoning…

"Reading RAPID EYE, every experience, every individual, every society changes its meaning. They all relate to one another in an infinite web, in a way you would never imagine possible… Gradually you start to make connections even between the most fantastically different ideas in the book. Ideas which are different in every conceivable respect – apart from one. Articles range from the inspiring to the disturbing. It alternately titillates, repels and confuses. This is a pernicious book. Genius." - Golden Dawn Magazine

"Intelligent and committed… RAPID EYE tells you what is really happening. It tells a wider story of a cultural struggle that is crucial to the demands of the 90s: the struggle between life and death." - The Observer

"Visionary. An intelligent and imaginative journal. Its contents are a veritable treasure trove of mind-activating information. Most illuminating." - N. M. E.

"RAPID EYE defies description. An enigma…it contains incredible ideas that it would be foolish to even try to convey here. Fascinating…" - B.B.C. Radio

"Some of the best pop writing to be found; excellent articles." - The Face

Table of Contents:

Part One:
Twilight Language - Ian Blake
Caught In The Act - an interview with Paul Mayersberg - Paul Buck
Lobsang Rampa: Prolific and Problematical - Kenneth Rayner Johnson
Nihilist Cinema – Part One: The Evil Cameraman - Paul Anthony-Woods
Nihilist Cinema – Part Two: Buttgereit, Der Todesking - Paul Anthony-Woods
H.P. Lovecraft – An Avenue - Ian Blake
Brain Death - Colin Wilson
Brian Crozier, The CIA, Publishing, Covert Government and Cold War Propaganda - Nick Toczek
The Anatomy of Utterance - The Poetry and Performance of Aaron Williamson - Richard Dyer
Carlos Castaneda - Pete Scott
Behavioural Cut-ups And Magick - Genesis P-Orridge
Alex Sanders: Shaman Or Showman? - Leroy Green
Last of the Literary Taboo Breakers - Paul Anthony-Woods
It's A Dog's Life: The Go, Go, Go World of Mondo Movies - David Flint
What it's like to be a Neoist - Istvan Kantor
The Space Of The Other Bisexuality - With Reference To Hélène Cixous' Angst - Adèle Olivia Gladwell
Alexandra The Great: France's Lady Lama Mme. Alexandra David-Néel - Kenneth Rayner Johnson

Part Two:
In The Jungle of The Plague Yard - Simon Dwyer



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