Against the Written Word
Toward a Universal Illiteracy
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Ian F. Svenonius
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Ian F. Svenonius
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If the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the omega
Against the Written Word 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.
This 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. Against the Written Word will be a tremendous best seller and simultaneously the last book that anyone will listen to.
With nineteen essays ripping, shredding, tearing apart all the bugaboos that haunt humanity nowadays, Against the Written Word is a must-listen 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.
This 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 listeners will disseminate it, and so on. Soon this work will define an epoch and steer thought from here on out.
The bookseller will be surprised and pleased to find that it will be the only book they need to stock. Against the Written Word 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 Little Red Book wowed the critics in Red China.
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- 02-21-23
Cured my literacy!
Make sure to play this one fast and loud friends. The authors best work imho.
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- Kitty-Joe Ste Marie
- 07-25-23
My eyes have been opened.
The outmoded alphabet can not express my praise for this insightful book. Humorous and informative. Truly a book to bring about the long awaited end of literary oppression.
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- Jeff Baumann
- 05-20-24
Unconditional Love and Support for the Spiv
Reviewer says, this book was trump tight from beginning to end. Humorous tongue in cheek revolutionary manifestos read by Mr. Svenonius himself. Always witty, always relevant. Highly recommended. Let’s protect our superheroes shall we?
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