Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present.In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social movements – exploring the intersections of these with contemporary art pract...

The Invisible Steps is an unforgettable musical fantasy adventure that weaves together the timeless themes of courage, friendship, and the fight against evil, reminiscent of the beloved classics The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Lord of the Rings. In this gripping tale, the dangers of our world today—its moral decay and the rising tide of darkness—are subtly woven into a vibrant and immersive fantasy realm.At the heart of th...

Everything preteen and teen boys need to know about their changing bodies and feelingsWritten by an experienced educator and her daughter in a reassuring and down-to earth style, The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Boys provides sensitive straight talk on:The body's changing size and shapeDiet and exerciseThe growth spurtThe reproductive organsBody hairVoice changesRomantic a...

The job title was housekeeper, not fiancée! But billionaire cattleman Kirk Deverill couldn't throw the lovely single mom off his ranch. Of course, the eligible bachelor hadn't expected her to tell everyone she was also Kirk's bride-to-be! Of course, making their fake engagement a real union was never going to happen. The Outback loner had his reasons, and even the most desirable of women wouldn't change his mind...

September eleven — Audiobook · Narrated by Adrian Sullivan. Listen time: 5 hours 15 minutes September 11 history — al-Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror, and the decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2011. Narrative American history of how one Tuesday morning remade the United States. The sky over the Northeast on September 11, 2001, was a perfect, cloudless blue. By 10:28 AM, 2,977 people were dead, the twin towers had collapsed into dust, the Pentagon's western facade ha...

Ambition and jealousy — all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards?The 1981 Tony Award ® winner for Best Play.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September, 2016.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergSteven Brand a...

After Vladimir Lenin's death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin's body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it's the gulag – or worse. Based on real events, Vern Thiessen's nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin.Lenin's Embalmers is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, b...

Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandin...

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or ‘hybrid genres’) in the arts and critical humanities. The chapters in the book operate as a critical survey of these new forms of writing (many examples are listed) whilst at the same time they each work towards some provisional definitions. Some key precursors to these new genres are also identified.The book explores ...

Philosophical-Occult periodical featuring the following essays1 Land: Neurosys2 Blake: Elves of Disintegration3 O'Sullivan: Mythopoesis, Scenes and Performance Fictions:4 Schlep: Spider-Spit: Notes of the formation of an Alchemical-Textual Machine.5 Johns: Creating emergence : A Brief Study of Conceptual, Phenomenological and Material Autopoietic Emergence.6 Ardoline: Neuroticism and the Impossibility of Meta-Philosophy7 Hall: Neu...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...