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"Two Hundred Pharaohs - Five Billion Slaves" now available
Two Hundred Pharaohs — Five Billion Slaves
— by
Adrian Peacock (1997; 121pp)
http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/TwoHundredPharaohs/TwoHundredPharaohs.pdf
============ from the back cover of the book =================
"…calls for the total reconstitution of all cultural, creative and social life on Earth and sets out the first practical programme for bringing about such change to be published in modern times"
This massively researched underground classic was first published in 1999 and has been plagarized by would-be youth-mpvement leaders ever since. Pre-dating the wave of corporately contrived 'anti-globalization' books cobbled together to exploit disquiet at the growing disparity between the mega-wealthy and the rest of us, it offers a profoundly hopeful view of human progress.
Launching itself from the point at which the Situationist International of the 1960s left off, "Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves" examines the rie of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of their world of intense leisure shopping.
Staring from the thesis that the whole of capitalist society can be viewed as nothing more sophisticated than a vast unstable network of constantly rising and tumbling pyramid schemes, it highlights the fact that only a handful of socially isolated and insecure billionaires (or 'pharaohs') can hope to benefit from a system that squanders the immense potential of modern technology.
Avowedly 'post-Utopian' in outlook, "Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves", represents one of the very few attempts in literature to describe what daily life would be like in a communistic world society.
Mail-art artist, City of London analyst, and Libyan Embassy squatter of the 1980s, researcher specializing in property and leisure, and anti-Criminal Justice Act activist in the early 1990s, Adrian Peacock published "Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves" in 1999. Inspired by the Albanian Revolution. It was written in a call center.
A critic writes: "During the investigation large amounts of personal material, of an anarchist nature, were found on your PC…. Some of the documents in question were of 40 sides of A4 in length…. It was determined that this was, potentially, a serious disciplinary matter…."
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[LFL note: originally $11.95; now found for no less than $106 online if at all]
best wishes,
chris gray
http://www.point-of-departure.org
http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/TwoHundredPharaohs/TwoHundredPharaohs.pdf
============ from the back cover of the book =================
"…calls for the total reconstitution of all cultural, creative and social life on Earth and sets out the first practical programme for bringing about such change to be published in modern times"
This massively researched underground classic was first published in 1999 and has been plagarized by would-be youth-mpvement leaders ever since. Pre-dating the wave of corporately contrived 'anti-globalization' books cobbled together to exploit disquiet at the growing disparity between the mega-wealthy and the rest of us, it offers a profoundly hopeful view of human progress.
Launching itself from the point at which the Situationist International of the 1960s left off, "Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves" examines the rie of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of their world of intense leisure shopping.
Staring from the thesis that the whole of capitalist society can be viewed as nothing more sophisticated than a vast unstable network of constantly rising and tumbling pyramid schemes, it highlights the fact that only a handful of socially isolated and insecure billionaires (or 'pharaohs') can hope to benefit from a system that squanders the immense potential of modern technology.
Avowedly 'post-Utopian' in outlook, "Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves", represents one of the very few attempts in literature to describe what daily life would be like in a communistic world society.
Mail-art artist, City of London analyst, and Libyan Embassy squatter of the 1980s, researcher specializing in property and leisure, and anti-Criminal Justice Act activist in the early 1990s, Adrian Peacock published "Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves" in 1999. Inspired by the Albanian Revolution. It was written in a call center.
A critic writes: "During the investigation large amounts of personal material, of an anarchist nature, were found on your PC…. Some of the documents in question were of 40 sides of A4 in length…. It was determined that this was, potentially, a serious disciplinary matter…."
=====================================================
[LFL note: originally $11.95; now found for no less than $106 online if at all]
best wishes,
chris gray
http://www.point-of-departure.org
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