{"product_id":"book-gnsy","title":"Against the Written Word","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Written Word\u003c\/em\u003e is the omega\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst the Written Word\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThis 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. \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Written Word\u003c\/em\u003e will be a tremendous best seller and simultaneously the last book that anyone will read. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eWith nineteen essays ripping, shredding, tearing apart all the bugaboos that haunt humanity nowadays, \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Written Word\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThis book will correct the paucity of thought that characterizes the modern bookstore and will practically sell itself. It will call out from the shelf to ingratiate itself to the unsuspecting everyday book browser, who will be hooked and then hungrily consume it. Infected with a wild-eyed evangelism, they will then proliferate it among their friends and acquaintances. These new readers will disseminate it, and so on. Soon this work will define an epoch and steer thought from here on out. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe bookseller will be surprised and pleased to find that it will be the only book they need to stock. \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Written Word\u003c\/em\u003e will be dominant in a manner the market has not seen since the Bible tore up best-seller lists in the Middle Ages or Mao's \u003cem\u003eLittle Red Book\u003c\/em\u003e wowed the critics in Red China. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49289527722288,"sku":"BDgnsy","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49289527755056,"sku":"ZEgnsy","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49289527820592,"sku":"ZMgnsy","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gnsy-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775982564","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gnsy","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}