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Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism
This collection samples recent resistance culture, featuring utopian protest groups attacking the foundations of "Western Civilization". These groups include the Bologna Psychogeographical Association, who is helping to levirate government buildings, and the Association of Autonomous Astronauts who is launching an independent proletarian space program in England, while their English compatriots, Decadent Action, plot to bring down capitalism with exorbitant shopping sprees leading to hyperinflation.
"In the 2090's, Mind Invaders will be revered as the roots to the creative paranoia that has corroded our once mighty civilization. Read this book and die". -- Bill Drummond, KLF
160 pages, Paperback
First published August 28, 1997
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About the author
Stewart Home
95 books288 followersStewart Home (born London 1963) is an English writer, satirist and artist. He is best known for novels such as the non-narrative "69 Things to Do With A Dead Princess" (2002), his re-imagining of the 1960s in "Tainted Love" (2005), and more recent books such as "She's My Witch" (2020) that use pulp and avant-garde tropes to parody conventional literature.
Home's unusual approach to writing is reflected in the readings he gives from his novels: he recites from memory, utilises ventriloquism, stands on his head and declaims his work and even shreds his own books.
Home's first book "The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War" (Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988) is an underground art history sketching continuations of dadist and surrealist influences on post-World War II fringe radical art.
Home's first novel "Pure Mania" was published 1989 (Polygon Books), and details a violent neo-punk subculture. Unmistakenly postmodern but nfluenced by surrealism and the nouveau roman, it pushes the appropriation of pulp tropes and use of repetition found within historical avant-garde fiction to such an extreme that some critics mistook it for a piece of low-brow writing.
Home continued in much the same vein with his next four novels, starting with "Defiant Pose" (Peter Owen, 1991) and continuing with "Red London" (AK Press 1994), "Blow Job" (published in 1997 but written in 1994) and Slow Death (Serpent's Tail 1996).
All Home’s early fiction collages in large amounts of prose from a wide variety of sources – and while it is often close in spirit to the work of ‘postmodern extremists’ such as Kathy Acker, the appropriated material is much more heavily reworked than in the latter’s books.
The novels Home wrote after the mid-nineties featured less subcultural material than his earlier books and focus more obviously on issues of form and aesthetics. Home’s sixth novel "Come Before Christ And Murder Love" (Serpent's Tail 1997) featured a schizophrenic narrator whose personality changed every time he had an orgasm. This was the first novel Home wrote in the first person, and much of the fiction he wrote after this utilised the device of an unreliable first-person narrator.
"Cunt" (Do Not Press 1999) is a postmodern take on the picaresque novel. "69 Things to Do With A Dead Princess" (Canongate 2002) mixes porn with capsule reviews of dozens of obscure books as well as elaborate descriptions of stone circles, while in "Down and Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton" (Do Not Press 2004) every paragraph is exactly 100 words long. "Tainted Love" (Virgin Books) is based on the life of the author's mother, who was part of the London subcultural scene in the 1960s. "Memphis Underground" (Snow Books 2007) has a long conventional literary opening that is slowly unravelled.
Home’s 2010 novel "Blood Rites of the Bourgeois" (Book Works) is to date his only work written in the second person. The plot – as far as there is one - concerns an artist hacking the computers of London’s cultural elite to infect them with modified penis enlargement spam. Reviewing Home’s incredibly weird campus novel "Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane" (Penny-Ante Editions 2013) for The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard observes: “I think one of the great virtues of Home's work is the way it forces us to address our own complacency.”
"The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones" (Test Centre 2014) is a fictional exploration of the life of one of the author's more infamous criminal relatives. "She's My Witch" (London Books 2020), is a love story exploring an unlikely relationship between a fitness instructor and a heroin addicted witch. "Art School Orgy" (New Reality Records, 2023) is a 'BDSM extravaganza'. Before this Home published his collected poems "SEND CA$H" (Morbid Books 2018) and a book about martial arts films "Re-Enter The Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation & The Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema" (Ledatape 2018).
Home's unusual approach to writing is reflected in the readings he gives from his novels: he recites from memory, utilises ventriloquism, stands on his head and declaims his work and even shreds his own books.
Home's first book "The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War" (Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988) is an underground art history sketching continuations of dadist and surrealist influences on post-World War II fringe radical art.
Home's first novel "Pure Mania" was published 1989 (Polygon Books), and details a violent neo-punk subculture. Unmistakenly postmodern but nfluenced by surrealism and the nouveau roman, it pushes the appropriation of pulp tropes and use of repetition found within historical avant-garde fiction to such an extreme that some critics mistook it for a piece of low-brow writing.
Home continued in much the same vein with his next four novels, starting with "Defiant Pose" (Peter Owen, 1991) and continuing with "Red London" (AK Press 1994), "Blow Job" (published in 1997 but written in 1994) and Slow Death (Serpent's Tail 1996).
All Home’s early fiction collages in large amounts of prose from a wide variety of sources – and while it is often close in spirit to the work of ‘postmodern extremists’ such as Kathy Acker, the appropriated material is much more heavily reworked than in the latter’s books.
The novels Home wrote after the mid-nineties featured less subcultural material than his earlier books and focus more obviously on issues of form and aesthetics. Home’s sixth novel "Come Before Christ And Murder Love" (Serpent's Tail 1997) featured a schizophrenic narrator whose personality changed every time he had an orgasm. This was the first novel Home wrote in the first person, and much of the fiction he wrote after this utilised the device of an unreliable first-person narrator.
"Cunt" (Do Not Press 1999) is a postmodern take on the picaresque novel. "69 Things to Do With A Dead Princess" (Canongate 2002) mixes porn with capsule reviews of dozens of obscure books as well as elaborate descriptions of stone circles, while in "Down and Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton" (Do Not Press 2004) every paragraph is exactly 100 words long. "Tainted Love" (Virgin Books) is based on the life of the author's mother, who was part of the London subcultural scene in the 1960s. "Memphis Underground" (Snow Books 2007) has a long conventional literary opening that is slowly unravelled.
Home’s 2010 novel "Blood Rites of the Bourgeois" (Book Works) is to date his only work written in the second person. The plot – as far as there is one - concerns an artist hacking the computers of London’s cultural elite to infect them with modified penis enlargement spam. Reviewing Home’s incredibly weird campus novel "Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane" (Penny-Ante Editions 2013) for The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard observes: “I think one of the great virtues of Home's work is the way it forces us to address our own complacency.”
"The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones" (Test Centre 2014) is a fictional exploration of the life of one of the author's more infamous criminal relatives. "She's My Witch" (London Books 2020), is a love story exploring an unlikely relationship between a fitness instructor and a heroin addicted witch. "Art School Orgy" (New Reality Records, 2023) is a 'BDSM extravaganza'. Before this Home published his collected poems "SEND CA$H" (Morbid Books 2018) and a book about martial arts films "Re-Enter The Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation & The Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema" (Ledatape 2018).
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December 27, 2011
There are further reflections on the content of this book here: http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ga/...
July 25, 2007
lots of psychogeography, weird pranks and other great shirt, the greatest collection of underground 90s bad craziness ever...
July 31, 2021
disappointed that the english version of this book isnt actually a translation of the luther blissett original; it’s just a collection of essays (some written by stewart home under various pen names, some poached from the LB original and other related psychogeographic texts.) this mixup led me down a very annoying rabbit hole when doing my reseach. 100 curses upon you stewart home!!! HOWEVER the autonomous astronauts association bit is particularly good and saved this book from being a wash re: my work. would have given more stars had it not been a ruse.
December 11, 2024
Happenings, flash mobs, situations, etc. became banal and commonplace with the advent of mainstream Internet sites like Youtube, Twitch, Tik Tok amongst many others. Simulation is the rule not the exception. Baudrillard frequently mentions is his philosophy books about how misinformation is already fundamental for contemporary society. Pro-revolutionary, 68 rhetoric became the new establishment of fakeness for decades now. Nowadays, to subvert and to trangress is, unfortunately, to remain coherent and to actually mean what one say.
The mention here of contemporary british fascists and their good relations towards the establishment shows where most of this actual flood of european far-right parties taking over now came from, ever since Enoch Powell and his rivers of blood.
Also, Elon Musk and his Space X most improbably way really made space colonization closer to become economically viable but boring nevertheless.
The mention here of contemporary british fascists and their good relations towards the establishment shows where most of this actual flood of european far-right parties taking over now came from, ever since Enoch Powell and his rivers of blood.
Also, Elon Musk and his Space X most improbably way really made space colonization closer to become economically viable but boring nevertheless.
February 17, 2009
That the pointlessness of modern life should be pushed into further pointlessness until collapse. Luther Blisset ftw
July 27, 2018
I'd categorize this more as Christian Science Fiction, and I'm really on the fence about my rating. I would have stopped reading after about 50 pages, but I was challenged to read this book. It got better as I neared the end, so I almost liked it (2.5 stars would be my real rating). I was bothered most by the super hereo/comic book characters. The premise of Antichrist and World Domination would be much easier to take if the characters were more dimensional.
December 17, 2018
La psicogeografía más punk, una oda al neoísmo.
NO ENTIENDO CÓMO NO ESTÁ TRADUCIDO AL CASTELLANO TT
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NO ENTIENDO CÓMO NO ESTÁ TRADUCIDO AL CASTELLANO TT
Lloran los fans hispanohablantes por las esquinas en sus derivas...
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