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10 best books like Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Erik Davis): Grammars of Creation, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, Culture and the Death of God, J.G. Ballard, The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death, Psychogeography, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred, Visionary in Residence, The Nearest Thing to Life

Grammars of Creation
AuthorGeorge Steiner
ISBN0300088639
"We have no more beginnings", George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly be called a magnum opus. He reflects on the different ways we have of talking about...
The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
AuthorMark Dery
ISBN0802136702
From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a "pyrotechnic insanitarium," Mark Dery...
Culture and the Death of God
AuthorTerry Eagleton
ISBN0300203993
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why “authentic” atheism is so very hard to come by

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this...
J.G. Ballard
AuthorV. Vale
ISBN0965046974
This is the most comprehensive introduction to this visionary writer, the William Burroughs of England. J.G. Ballard finally achieved world recognition when Steven Spielberg filmed his autobiography (childhood til age 15) in Empire of the Sun. But Ballard has been a visionary iconoclast since...
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
AuthorJohn N. Gray
ISBN0374175063
At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history, has provided an explanation for human life and a vision of what comes after it. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such beliefs came under relentless pressure as new ideas—from...
Psychogeography
AuthorMerlin Coverley
ISBN1904048617
Psychogeography. Increasingly this term is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from key lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Situationist Movement...
Nietzsche: Life as Literature
AuthorAlexander Nehamas
ISBN0674624262
More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views--the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the �bermensch, the master morality--often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker...
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
AuthorJeffrey J. Kripal
ISBN0226453863
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical...
Visionary in Residence
AuthorBruce Sterling
ISBN1560258411
I'm a science fiction writer. This is a golden opportunity to get up to most any mischief imaginable. With this fourth collection of my stories, I'm going to prove this to you. With these words, Bruce Sterling—author of New York times Notable Books of the Year and one of the great names in contemporary...
The Nearest Thing to Life
AuthorJames Wood
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion....
A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0312156839

Over the course of his career, J.G. Ballard has revealed hidden truths about the modern world. The essays, reviews, and ruminations gathered here—spanning the breadth of this long career—approach reality with the same sharp prose and sharper vision that distinguish his fiction. Ballard's...
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
AuthorIan Frazier
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like...
The New Humanists: Science at the Edge
AuthorJohn Brockman
ISBN0760745293
When John Brockman’s essay, “The New Humanists” appeared on his popular cutting-edge science website, EDGE (www.edge.org), he received a record number of responses from the intellectuals of the EDGE community. In his essay, Brockman noted that the American intellectual had become proudly...
The Burroughs File
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic....
Nature and Madness
AuthorPaul Shepard
ISBN0820319805
Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and proposes ways...
Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams & Resurrection
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN1573226297
In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of Millennium traces these cultural phenomena from...
Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
AuthorGraham Harman
ISBN1780992521
As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally...
Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
AuthorAdam Phillips
ISBN0465056768
Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering,...
Mr. Show-What Happened?: The Complete Story & Episode Guide
AuthorNaomi Odenkirk
ISBN0971359784
Ms. Naomi Odenkirk put together a great tome about what is, in my opinion, the funniest sketch comedy show ever made save Monty Python. In fact, Mr. Show's sensibilities and framework are based on the original Monty Python TV episodes, including the makeshift sets where the walls jiggle if the cast jumps...
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