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| - | [[Amok Books]] is an [[American publishing|American]] [[publisher]]. ''[[Amok]]'' means "to go [[mad]] with [[rage]]" ([[uncontrollable]] rage). | + | [[Amok Books]] is an [[American publishing|American publisher]] founded by [[Stuart Swezey]]. ''[[Amok]]'' means "to go [[mad]] with [[rage]]" ([[uncontrollable]] rage). |
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| + | Stuart Swezey is also the co-editor of the ''Amok Fourth Dispatch sourcebook'' of the [[extreme]]s of information in print. | ||
| - | [[Stuart Swezey]] is the publisher of [[Amok Books]] and co-editor of the highly acclaimed ''Amok Fourth Dispatch sourcebook'' of the [[extreme]]s of information in print. | ||
| :"Long before you could seek out the fate of the foreskin or search through an Internet database on crime, Stuart Swezey's Amok Books was ''the source'' of [[anomalous]] data in America. The first ''Amok Dispatch'', a newsprint catalog listing 300 titles on everything from conspiracy theory to Dada classics, was a loud and obnoxious monster truck on the information frontage road of [[1986]]." --Patrick Hughes via [http://www.gettingit.com/article/192 gettingit.com] | :"Long before you could seek out the fate of the foreskin or search through an Internet database on crime, Stuart Swezey's Amok Books was ''the source'' of [[anomalous]] data in America. The first ''Amok Dispatch'', a newsprint catalog listing 300 titles on everything from conspiracy theory to Dada classics, was a loud and obnoxious monster truck on the information frontage road of [[1986]]." --Patrick Hughes via [http://www.gettingit.com/article/192 gettingit.com] | ||
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Amok Books is an American publisher founded by Stuart Swezey. Amok means "to go mad with rage" (uncontrollable rage).
Stuart Swezey is also the co-editor of the Amok Fourth Dispatch sourcebook of the extremes of information in print.
- "Long before you could seek out the fate of the foreskin or search through an Internet database on crime, Stuart Swezey's Amok Books was the source of anomalous data in America. The first Amok Dispatch, a newsprint catalog listing 300 titles on everything from conspiracy theory to Dada classics, was a loud and obnoxious monster truck on the information frontage road of 1986." --Patrick Hughes via gettingit.com
Nothing is true, everything is permitted
Stuart Swezey interviewed by Jack Sargeant
- The Amok Fourth Dispatch — with its cheesy-yet-sinister painting of a maniacally grinning middle-aged suburban mother — was, when published in 1990, one of the first texts to recognise the dictum that wars, at least in the West, are now concerned with information: access to information, understanding information, withholding information, and disseminating information. Knowledge — as Foucault once wrote — is intrinsically linked to power, as such the book is indispensable. The 350-plus pages of this telephone book sized tome formed a theoretical and practical brainscape to the multiple (and frequently dangerous) literatures that formed and/ or explored the murky terrains of neglected/banned /bizarre/curious/illegal/sexy information. fringecore.com
Bibliography
- Amok Journal Sensurround Edition, by Stuart Swezey, 1995, ISBN 187892303X
- Apocalypse Culture, edited by Adam Parfrey, interview with Peter Sotos (Amok Books, 1990, ISBN 0-922915-05-9)
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