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Apocalypse Culture II
Apocalypse Culture II is an anthology of the fringe and transgressive edited by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House in 2000. A sequel to his previous work, Apocalypse Culture, it continues the probing of societal taboos, with special attention given to conspiracy theories, neo-Nazism, child pornography, cannibalism, terrorism, assorted paraphilia, scatological research, racisms, misanthropic ecology, and mind control.
Entries included are authored by, among others, John Hinckley Jr., Michael Moynihan, Crispin Glover, and Peter Sotos. The book's final entry is an essay by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The book was published in a combined edition with its predecessor in Russia in 2006, where it was banned as "drug propaganda" due to the entry on ketamine. Several reviewers found the volume disturbing, but complimented it for what it was.
Apocalypse Culture II was edited by Adam Parfrey, the sequel to the 1987 anthology volume Apocalypse Culture. Parfey's works often focused on the bizarre. It covers similar topics and ground to the first volume. The book was first published in 2000 by Feral House, Parfrey's publishing house. The first edition was 468 pages long. Talking to Willamette Week, Parfrey said of the book that:
It seems like an awful lot of people grow goatees and talk about hip things. But with this book, if you think it's all hip and kind and wonderful and groovy—well, there are some things in this book that are not very groovy at all. You have to look at it and figure out, what does free speech mean? What do these terrible things mean? We live in a world where some not very hip things are happening, and this book tries to get at some of them.
While promoting the book and asked on his feelings on it by the Los Angeles Times, he said: "Upsetting people is a beautiful thing." Parfrey had problems finding a printer for the book due to some of the illustrations in the pedophilia sections. He found a printer that would take on the job, but only if six images were removed. Parfrey agreed, and instead put the six removed images on his website.
In 2006, the book and the original Apocalypse Culture were translated into Russian in 2006 and published combined as one volume by the Russian counterculture publisher Ultra.Kultura as Культура времен Апокалипсиса. The book was afterwards banned in Russia as "drug propaganda" due to David Woodard's entry on ketamine. All copies were confiscated.
Parfrey clarifies, in the preface, that the collection is not a "manifesto or a smorgasbord of personal fetishes or beliefs", but that "the book was compiled to examine far-reaching and extreme societal tendrils." It is dedicated to "the memory of Vladimir Jabotinsky 1880-1940." It opens with quotations from Wilhelm Stekel's Sadism and Masochism and Woodrow Parfrey's (the editor's father) death scene as a mass murderer in the Naked City episode, "Burst of Passion".
It continues the probing of societal taboos, with topics ranging from child pornography, neo-Nazism, Nazism, cannibalism, terrorism, assorted paraphilia, scatological research, racisms, misanthropic ecology, and mind control. Other topics include Jews for Hitler, conspiracy theories and satanic ritual abuse. The book is illustrated. Authors included are John Hinckley Jr., Michael Moynihan, actor Crispin Glover, and Peter Sotos, among others. The book concludes with an essay by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
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Apocalypse Culture II
Apocalypse Culture II is an anthology of the fringe and transgressive edited by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House in 2000. A sequel to his previous work, Apocalypse Culture, it continues the probing of societal taboos, with special attention given to conspiracy theories, neo-Nazism, child pornography, cannibalism, terrorism, assorted paraphilia, scatological research, racisms, misanthropic ecology, and mind control.
Entries included are authored by, among others, John Hinckley Jr., Michael Moynihan, Crispin Glover, and Peter Sotos. The book's final entry is an essay by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The book was published in a combined edition with its predecessor in Russia in 2006, where it was banned as "drug propaganda" due to the entry on ketamine. Several reviewers found the volume disturbing, but complimented it for what it was.
Apocalypse Culture II was edited by Adam Parfrey, the sequel to the 1987 anthology volume Apocalypse Culture. Parfey's works often focused on the bizarre. It covers similar topics and ground to the first volume. The book was first published in 2000 by Feral House, Parfrey's publishing house. The first edition was 468 pages long. Talking to Willamette Week, Parfrey said of the book that:
It seems like an awful lot of people grow goatees and talk about hip things. But with this book, if you think it's all hip and kind and wonderful and groovy—well, there are some things in this book that are not very groovy at all. You have to look at it and figure out, what does free speech mean? What do these terrible things mean? We live in a world where some not very hip things are happening, and this book tries to get at some of them.
While promoting the book and asked on his feelings on it by the Los Angeles Times, he said: "Upsetting people is a beautiful thing." Parfrey had problems finding a printer for the book due to some of the illustrations in the pedophilia sections. He found a printer that would take on the job, but only if six images were removed. Parfrey agreed, and instead put the six removed images on his website.
In 2006, the book and the original Apocalypse Culture were translated into Russian in 2006 and published combined as one volume by the Russian counterculture publisher Ultra.Kultura as Культура времен Апокалипсиса. The book was afterwards banned in Russia as "drug propaganda" due to David Woodard's entry on ketamine. All copies were confiscated.
Parfrey clarifies, in the preface, that the collection is not a "manifesto or a smorgasbord of personal fetishes or beliefs", but that "the book was compiled to examine far-reaching and extreme societal tendrils." It is dedicated to "the memory of Vladimir Jabotinsky 1880-1940." It opens with quotations from Wilhelm Stekel's Sadism and Masochism and Woodrow Parfrey's (the editor's father) death scene as a mass murderer in the Naked City episode, "Burst of Passion".
It continues the probing of societal taboos, with topics ranging from child pornography, neo-Nazism, Nazism, cannibalism, terrorism, assorted paraphilia, scatological research, racisms, misanthropic ecology, and mind control. Other topics include Jews for Hitler, conspiracy theories and satanic ritual abuse. The book is illustrated. Authors included are John Hinckley Jr., Michael Moynihan, actor Crispin Glover, and Peter Sotos, among others. The book concludes with an essay by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.