Cacophonyesque Books, Films, etc

[The Minister for Discord]

Seen or read something in the spirit of things here?

[The Minister for Discord]

Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today

Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation—technically and socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.

Nowtopia uncovers the resistance of a slowly recomposing working class in America. Rarely defining themselves by what they do for a living, people from all walks of life are doing incredible amounts of labor in their "non-work" time, creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. The social networks they create, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies to confront the commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.

The practices outlined in Nowtopia embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically-driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.

With historical grounding, a toolbox drawing from multiple schools of anti-capitalist thought and theory, and a refreshingly pragmatic approach, Carlsson opens our eyes to the revolutions of everyday life.

Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project "Shaping San Francisco," is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. He has edited four collections of political and historical essays. He helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass, and was long-time editor of Processed World magazine.

[The Minister for Discord]

Southland Tales


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405336/

[The Minister for Discord]

Into the WIld


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/

[bugyell]

nobody got this film.i thought it a classic. this is the way the world will end. Agent Fobister, #16.

[Philosophy Movement]

Obviously fight club which was based on a book written by a famous cacophonist Chuck Palahniuk

other movies based on his books are also based on the ideals of cacophony

[Deviant Dear]

All of Chuck Palahniuk books are fine examples of Cacophony in Media.
And, if you haven't heard yet, 'Choke' another of his books has just now been released as a movie! I have heard from a reliable source it is good too ^_~
Which, if they do any justice to the book, it no doubt will be.

[Philosophy Movement]

is it out i thought it was in november?

[Deviant Dear]

Right now it is playing in select theatres in LA, I'm not entirely sure when it will be making its way to a more worldwide or nationwide scope. But i'll be waiting <3

[The Minister for Discord]

As an avid Palahniuk fan I have been searching long and hard for other authors in a similar vein. This week I found one: Douglas Coupland. I have just finished 'Girlfiend in a Coma' and would recommend it v. highly.

Review stolen from Amazon;

"In this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X--who is himself now a dangerously mature 36--boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very Couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "Karen and I deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon--lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski wax, and Karen's strawberry shampoo." Are we in for an archetypal '80s romance, played out against a pop-cultural backdrop? Nope. Only hours after losing her virginity, Karen loses consciousness as well--for almost two decades. The narrator and his circle soldier on, making the slow progression from debauched Vancouver youths to semiresponsible adults. Several end up working on a television series that bears a suspicious resemblance to The X-Files (surely a self-referential wink on the author's part). And then ... Karen wakes up. Her astonishment--which suggests a 20th-century, substance-abusing Rip Van Winkle--dominates the second half of the novel, and gives Coupland free reign to muse about time, identity, and the meaning (if any) of the impending millennium. Alas, he also slaps a concluding apocalypse onto the novel. As sleeping sickness overwhelms the populace, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a universal yawn--which doesn't, fortunately, outweigh the sweetness, oddity, and ironic smarts of everything that has preceded it."

Anyone else a fan, or got other recommendations?

[Jan Barker]

Outside 'Analogue' the very cool zine/art book shop in Edinburgh - this poster appeared

I so want to do this.