Aleister Crowley

Robert Anton Wilson

Genesis P-Orridge

Scott Michaelsen

Infamous for scandalising society on both sides of the Atlantic Alisteir Crowley (1875-1947) was a brilliant man whose position as the major intellectual figure on the occult has often been eclipsed by his own notoriety. Portable Darkness is the first book to tackle the formidable task of collecting the best of his voluminous lifework. In bringing together Crowley's best writings, editor Scott Michaelsen makes Crowleyan philosophy both accessible and intelligible. Includes The Book of the Law, Hymn to Pan and many other classic works.

An Aleister Crowley Reader

Portable Darkness

Louis Kaplan

Art Clokey

The first and only authorized, full illustrated book devoted to Gumby, the delightful animated clay figure whose popularity is at an all-time high. 125 color and black-and-white illustrations.

The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy

Gumby

Scott Cutler Shershow

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism. Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his “Cthulhu mythos” is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or “weird” fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of “psychonaut” and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author’s racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft’s love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft’s lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding. “The Love of Ruins ranks among the small handful of the very best Lovecraftian analyses. Erudite, sophisticated, and insightful, this volume is a pure joy to read. A must have for anyone interested in Lovecraft or the field of dark fantasy.” — Gary Hoppenstand, author of Clive Barker’s Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works

Letters on Lovecraft

The Love of Ruins

Infamous for scandalising society on both sides of the Atlantic, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a major intellectual figure on the occult whose work has often been eclipsed by his own notoriety. Portable Darkness collects the best of his voluminous writings, displaying the razorsharp insight for which Crowley is renowned for. Explores Crowley's favourite subjects such as the power of language, yoga, sex and magic. Enlightening and revolutionary, Portable Darkness is an indispensable lexicon for all readers with an interest in the occult.

David Johnson

Las fronteras están casi siempre resguardadas por patrullas, murallas rejas, uniformes, binoculares y también por múltiples discursos paranoides sobre contagio racial o nacional. Teoría de la frontera se ocupa de fronteras como estas, pero también de las "blandas", producidas dentro de los discursos más liberales, como los nacionalismos aparentemente benévolos, los estudios étnicos o el multiculturalismo. Pensar la frontera, sitio de encuentro de relatos geopolíticos, literarios, historiográficos y antropológicos, supone combinar lo geográfico, lo simbólico y lo disciplinario en un proceso de desterritorialización del concepto de frontera y sus investigaciones. Los ensayos de este volumen realizan una profunda crítica de la esencialización de las culturas de la frontera y de una concepción de la diversidad como si fuera un dato biocultural que habría que preservar. En cambio, acentúan la construcción histórica y simbólica de las fronteras, sus procesos y disputas, sus criterios y dilemas. Los desplazamientos se convierten así en un laboratorio de la contingencia, un contexto de elaboración de diversidades, de tránsitos y flujos, antes que hitos, líneas y monolitos. Colaboran en este volumen, además de los compiladores: Russ Castronovo, Elaine K. Chang, Louis Kaplan, Alejandro Lugo, Benjamin Alire Sáenz y Patricia Seed.

Los límites de la política cultural

Teoría de la frontera

David E. Johnson

Border Theory was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Challenging the prevailing assumption that border studies occurs only in "the borderlands" where Mexico and the United States meet, the authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.- Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and the colonization and confinement of American Indians. The texts assembled here examine the way border studies beckons us to rethink all objects of study and intellectual disciplines as versions of a border problematic. These writers-drawn from anthropology, history, and language studies-critique the terrain, limits, and possibilities of border theory. They examine, among other topics, the "soft" or "friendly" borders produced by ethnic studies, antiassimilationist or "difference" multiculturalisms, liberal anthropologies, and benevolent nationalisms. Referring to a range of theory (anthropological, sociological, feminist, Marxist, European postmodernist and poststructuralist, postcolonial, and ethnohistorical), the authors trace the genealogical and logical links between these discourses and border studies. A timely critique of a field just now revealing its explosive potential, this volume maps the intellectual topography of border theory and challenges the epistemological and political foundations of border studies. Contributors are Russ Castronovo, Elaine K. Chang, Louis Kaplan, Alejandro Lugo, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Patricia Seed. Scott Michaelsen is assistant professor of English at Michigan State University. David E. Johnson is lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Scott Michaelsen

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