Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
暫譯: 奇異吸引子:特倫斯·麥肯納的幻覺人生
St John, Graham, Davis, Erik
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2025-09-30
- 售價: $1,480
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,406
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 552
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262049570
- ISBN-13: 9780262049573
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An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was the twentieth century's psychedelic Renaissance man. Perfecting his rugged philosophy on the role of psychedelics in evolution, consciousness, and time, McKenna was a riotous charmer who stalked the shadows, but also sought the iridescence. More than twenty years since his untimely passing, McKenna has an enduring magnetism across the virtual pop stream, in pervasive digitization, and within social media networks. In Strange Attractor, the first biography of this enigmatic figure, Graham St John detects the signal behind the noise. This book is an engaging chronicle of the life, works, and legacy of this brazen adventurer of the inner and outer dimensions, whose weird intelligence has affected multitudes and whose spirit continues to haunt the present. It draws on original documents and letters, features fifty two rare photographs and artworks, and shares previously untold stories from over eighty people. Neither glorifying nor disparaging its subject, Strange Attractor will appeal to those interested in the evolution of a psychedelic intellectual, and to those for whom McKenna's wisdom endures.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一位在二十世紀末最受讚譽卻又最難以理解的人物,特倫斯·麥肯納的智慧傳記。
特倫斯·麥肯納(1946-2000)是一位站立式哲學家,對科學、人文主義和隱秘藝術做出了獨特的貢獻,他是二十世紀的迷幻文藝復興人物。麥肯納在迷幻藥物在進化、意識和時間中的角色上完善了他粗獷的哲學,他是一位充滿魅力的狂熱者,徘徊於陰影之中,但也追求著光彩。自他不幸去世已逾二十年,麥肯納在虛擬流行文化中仍然具有持久的吸引力,在普遍的數位化和社交媒體網絡中隨處可見。在奇異吸引子這本關於這位神秘人物的第一本傳記中,格雷厄姆·聖約翰揭示了噪音背後的信號。 這本書生動地記錄了這位內外維度大膽冒險者的生活、作品和遺產,他的奇特智慧影響了無數人,並且他的精神仍然在當今社會中徘徊。書中引用了原始文件和信件,展示了五十二幅珍貴的照片和藝術作品,並分享了來自八十多位人士的未曾講述的故事。奇異吸引子既不美化也不貶低其主題,將吸引那些對迷幻知識分子的演變感興趣的人,以及那些仍然珍視麥肯納智慧的人。作者簡介
Graham St John is Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow in Music and Design Arts at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of ten books, including Mystery School in Hyperspace, Global Tribe, and Technomad. He is founding Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and has published widely on the Burning Man movement and culture.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
格雷厄姆·聖約翰(Graham St John)是哈德斯菲爾德大學(University of Huddersfield)音樂與設計藝術的瑪麗·居里高級研究員。他是十本書的作者,包括《超空間的神秘學校》(Mystery School in Hyperspace)、《全球部落》(Global Tribe)和《科技遊牧者》(Technomad)。他是《舞蹈文化:電子舞曲文化期刊》(Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture)的創始執行編輯,並在燃燒人運動(Burning Man)及其文化方面發表了廣泛的研究。