Adventures In The Orgasmatron

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142996748X
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Orgasmatron written by Christopher Turner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. Central to the narrative is the orgone box—a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool. A person who sat in the box, it was thought, could elevate his or her "orgastic potential." The box was the invention of Wilhelm Reich, an outrider psychoanalyst who faced a federal ban on the orgone box, an FBI investigation, a fraught encounter with Einstein, and bouts of paranoia. In Turner's vivid account, Reich's efforts anticipated those of Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and other prominent thinkers—efforts that brought about a transformation of Western views of sexuality in ways even the thinkers themselves could not have imagined.

Author : Dr Christopher Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007436460
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Orgasmatron written by Dr Christopher Turner and published by . This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story: an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007507740
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Orgasmatron written by Christopher Turner and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the prehistory of perhaps the key revolution of the twentieth century - the Sexual Revolution which broke out, first, in the USA.

Author : Peter Reich
Publisher : Peter Reich
ISBN 13 : 1458179281
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Dreams written by Peter Reich and published by Peter Reich. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007181575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Orgasmatron written by Christopher Turner and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in the Orgasmatron is the untold story of the dawn of the sexual revolution in America - an illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

Author : James DeMeo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980231670
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Wilhelm Reich written by James DeMeo and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Reich has been chronically slandered and misrepresented in the popular media, and in "scientific" circles, beyond all rationality. His controversial research findings have been replicated by other scholars and scientists, but the entire subject of his work has been a serious Taboo for decades. Natural Scientist DeMeo corrects the record.

Author : Olivia Laing
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608786
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everybody: A Book about Freedom written by Olivia Laing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Author : Aaron John Gulyas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601682
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist written by Aaron John Gulyas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.

Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143121944
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest written by Daniel Yergin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal “It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —The Financial Times This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.

Author : Victor I. Stoichita
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890009
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short History of the Shadow written by Victor I. Stoichita and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the depiction and meaning of shadows in the history of Western art