Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort

by Colin Bennett, Rik Rawling (Illustrator)

Politics of the Imagination is an account of the life and work of Charles Fort (18741932). Born in Albany, New York, Fort spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere faade. In a series of books- The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents -Fort argued that science was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe by editing out paradoxes, miracles, and paranormal events. Politics has a foreword by John Keel, whose book The Mothman Prophecies is now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Willy Boy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read all the books by the late and much lamented Colin Bennett you can find. Highest recommendation.

[Derek Baldwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This can be hard work, and was disappointingly unrevealing about Fort per se, concentrating on his "texts" . . . yes, it's one of those Althusser/Derrida/Foucault influenced post-modernist type studies. If that is not enough to scare you away, then give this a try!