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...

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...

How many plays start in a dentist’s chair and climax with a wild masquerade party? Shaw’s hilarious comedy of errors involves mistaken identity, tangled courtship, and wise advice from “the perfect waiter.” With a nod to Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Shaw’s You Never Can Tell is a lightning-paced satire of romance and Edwardian society.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2015.Director: Rosalind Ayres Producing Director: Susan ...

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...

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...

Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief."Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, M...

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories.This collection includes the following stories:"The Door in the Wall" by H. G. Wells—A man must choose between the rationality of science and the magic of imagination."All Cats Are Gray" by Andre Norton—A down-on-his-luck spaceman an...

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...

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...