| "In Burroughs’s world, evil disguises itself as good and good disguises itself as evil. The Archons are Christians and politicians and “jus’ good folk.” The Gnostics are roving bands of criminals and thieves known only to themselves as “the Johnsons.” The visionaries, the ones who have attained genuine gnosis (i.e., “knowledge”) can see through the illusions forged by control, identify the face of the enemy, and from that point begin the quest for true freedom. These visionaries regularly employ unorthodox and seemingly “insane” methods to overthrow the hypnotic bonds of control: opiates, orgone energy, tape recorders that are used to cut up, analyse, and reconfigure the endless barrage of shallow mass media used to keep the masses docile, astral travel through time and space, hermetic magic, telepathy, etc. These are the tools of the twentieth century Gnostic in Burroughs’s revitalised Libertatia." - William S. Burroughs - 20th Century Gnostic Visionary | ||
 |  |  |
| And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
by William S. Burroughs $10.08 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs $10.08 | Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th An...
by William S. Burroughs $10.20 |
 |  |  |
| The Beats: A Graphic History
$14.96 | Cities of the Red Night: A Novel
by William S. Burroughs $10.88 | Queer: A Novel
by William S. Burroughs $10.92 |
 |  |  |
| The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flaming...
by J.G. Ballard | The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Burrough...
by William S. Burroughs $11.20 | The Soft Machine
by William S. Burroughs $8.64 |
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... Next > > | ||
|
William S. Burroughs
