{"id":1587,"date":"2019-12-01T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2020-01-27T02:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:13:51","slug":"dezember-2019-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2019\/12\/01\/dezember-2019-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"dezember 2019 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Confessions of an English DMT-Eater<\/h3>\t\t\t

Guy Omar<\/strong>
\nIn playful homage to Thomas De Quincey’s most infamous work,\u00a0Confessions of an English DMT-Eater<\/em>\u00a0is the author’s personal experience of the many Heavens and Hells of DMT intoxication. A Twenty-First century memoir of his private engagement with nature’s most fascinating, mystifying, and sometimes terrifying psychedelic compound.\u00a0Confessions of an English DMT-Eater<\/em>\u00a0by Guy Omar takes many of the broader structural elements of De Quincey\u2019s classic, with chapters on the \u00abpain\u00bb and \u00abpleasure\u00bb of, but deals with the phenomenally tricky business of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). There are also a couple of sections on a cannabis experience and 5-MEO-DMT, which is \u00abunimaginably intense, you are instantly blasted into a realm in which your thought patterns are somehow dissolving into a far larger ocean\u00bb The DMT universe, however, is visually ripe for a confessional.
\nCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, February 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Blowout. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest and Most Destructive Industry on Earth<\/h3>\t\t\t

Rachel Maddow\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWith her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 US election. She demonstrates how Russia\u2019s rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia\u2019s rot into its rivals, its neighbours, the West\u2019s most important alliances, and the United States. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson.\u00a0Blowout\u00a0<\/em>is a call to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world\u2019s most destructive industry and its enablers.
\nPenguin Random House, October 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jay-Z: Made in America<\/h3>\t\t\t

Michael Eric Dyson<\/strong>
\nJAY-Z:\u00a0Made in America<\/em>\u00a0is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson\u2019s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he\u2019s sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he\u2019s been for so long. This book wrestles with the biggest themes of JAY-Z’s career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he\u2019s always weaved politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth and social injustice. As he enters his fifties, and to mark his thirty years as a recording artist, this is the perfect time to take a look at JAY-Z\u2019s career and his role in making this nation what it is today.
\nSt. Martin\u2019s Press, November 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Beautiful Ones<\/h3>\t\t\t

Prince<\/strong>
\nPrince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of \u00abUptown\u00bb to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of \u00abPaisley Park.\u00bb But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era. Prince \u2014 a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring\u2019s introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months
\nPenguin Random House, December 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Yoko Ono & John Lennon – Libert\u00e9 Conqu\u00e9rante \/ Growing Freedom<\/h3>\t\t\t

Michael Allred, Steve Horton & Laura Allred<\/strong>
\nYoko is a leading experimental and avant-garde artist. In Tokyo during the 1950s, she introduced original questions about the concept of art and the art object, breaking down the traditional boundaries between branches of art. She has since been associated with conceptual art, performance, Fluxus, and 1960s happenings \u2014 one of the few women to participate in these movements. Through her performances and activism, she created a new kind of relationship with both spectators and fellow artists \u2014 including her late husband, John Lennon \u2014 by inviting them to play an active part in the creative process. In addition, her influence brings together Eastern and Western cultures, which extend and strengthen each other in continuous innovation.
\nHirmer Publishers, December 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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