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Strange Attractor Journal One (Strange Attractor Anthology) [Paperback]

Mark Pilkington (Editor)
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Publication Date: 3 Jun 2005 | Series: Strange Attractor Anthology
Strange Attractor celebrates unpopular culture. We declare war on mediocrity and a pox on the foot soldiers of stupidity. Join Us.

Featuring articles on: the rejected, lost or forbidden in knowledge, people, places, ideas, and technologies, encompassing the arts, science, politics and belief. Unusual past times, museums and collections; experimental and transgressive arts; esoteric ethnography and sociology; invisible politics; altered histories; psychedelic science; religious experimentation.

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  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Strange Attractor Press (3 Jun 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0954805402
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954805401
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 989,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Strange Attractor is what you get when poetic archaeologists of the imagination gather their finest jewels..." -- Erik Davis

"For the connoisseur of the strange..." -- Nick Barlay, Time Out London

"One of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird magazines of the past hundred-odd years... a rare delight." -- Kevin Jackson, Independent on Sunday

"Sublimely odd and beautifully designed" -- Iain Aitch, The Guardian

"Written in a decorous, even-tempered style... finely produced" -- Times Literary Supplement

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strangely Attractive 22 Oct 2010
By Green Man Music
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Strange Attractor is a book-length collection of articles and research. Within you'll find many example of the weird (e.g. Mike Jay's account of his encounters with a truly bizarre Cargo Cult in the South Pacific), the wonderful (e.g. Alec Martin's research on the communities of artists, sorcerers and feminist anarchists of the 1900s) and the minutae (an interesting look at a 1950's hairdressing manual on how to make sculptures of frigates being tossed on the high seas from one's wife's hair).

The articles are chosen for their high strangeness, ranging from a comparatively sober interview with a former Greenham Common activist regarding the use of mind control experiments on the protesters, to a rambling hand-written and hand-sketched essay on the geographic coincidences of various structures in Glasgow.

From secret societies, through London subculture via Lovecraft, there's more in here than I could possibly mention and give justice to.

One thing I should mention however is the presentation of the book; it's exquisitely put together, with artwork forming the back cover and a photograph on the front, it's laid out with Edwardian-esque borders and line drawings and filled with small pictures and photographs.

It's a very special publication.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Congratualtions For Coming This Far... 6 Mar 2006
By A Hitchins
Format:Paperback
Legend speaks of a realm laying somewhere between the wastelands of rationality and the kingdom of the occult, where myth and fact are one and the same and sinister societies whisper behind closed doors. In this realm an elite breed reside who remain precariously skeptical, who only look up from their Umberto Eco thrillers to laugh at the passing De Vinci Code tour. In this surreal limbo land the nocturnal press of the Strange Attractor Cult annually gives birth to this weirdly erudite journal.

Within its dark and enigmatic binding the strangely attracted will uncover an arcane pandemonium of essays, journalism and art from the underworld of culture. Here the truly provocative ("Mind the Zap: Mind Control at Greenham Common?") is combined with ideas that your average Wicca practicing tree worshipper would think of as 'a bit odd' ("Magick Cyrkles: Glasgow Walks & Photographs"). Despite the eclectic material, each article enriches the coherence of the whole like the finer details of a schizophrenic delusion.

It is the design though that deserves the most praise. Whilst illustrations are kept to a minimum the journal has created its own bizarrely resonant aesthetic reflecting the otherworldliness of it's content, bewitchingly presenting the esoteric for the uninitiated. It is for those who want to walk the paths of the arcane but know better than to stray into the undergrowth.

The obscurity of the journal suggests that those who know of its existence are already likely to be inclined towards its unique perspective. However this is publication that welcomes strangers, encouraging free thought rather than indoctrinating the weird, sorry, "wyrd".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Notes from the Underground 4 Jun 2007
By Evan Dump - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Beautiful and surprising essays about fringe cultural phenomena - cargo cults, 1950s American suburbia, experimental weaponry, Electronic Voice Phenomena, hairdressing, educational VD waxworks, David Lindsay's 'Arcturus', H.P. Lovecraft, and much more.
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