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The complete books of Charles Fort / by Fort, Charles,1874-1932.(CARDINAL)126753;

The book of the damned.--New lands.--Lo!--Wild talents.

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Astronomy; Curiosities and wonders.; Life on other planets.; Meteorology; Science; Unidentified flying objects.;

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Charles Fort; prophet of the unexplained / by Knight, Damon,1922-2002.(CARDINAL)146094;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Biographies.; Fort, Charles, 1874-1932.;

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The book of the damned / by Fort, Charles,1874-1932,author.;

The signature edition of Charles Fort's classic of paranormal discovery--reset with a new index. Welcome to a record of the damned. "By damned," wrote Charles Fort in 1919, "I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of the data that Science has excluded."Fort's record of the unknown was one of the first to expose us to visitors from space, monsters, poltergeists, and floating islands. Frogs fall from the sky. Mysterious airships take flight in an age before the airplane. People disappear, reappear, and spontaneously combust. This stand-alone, handsome edition exposes today's readers to the core work of Fort's extraordinary career--in which he pushed us to ask: What is out there?

Subjects: Meteorology; Astronomy; Consciousness.;

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Magic / by Sutcliffe, Jamie,editor,writer of introduction,contributor.; Fort, Charles,1874-1932,contributor.; Nelson, Victoria,contributor.; Lachman, Gary,1955-contributor.; Chireau, Yvonne Patricia,1961-contributor.; Styers, Randall,contributor.; Lippard, Lucy R.,contributor.; Stengers, Isabelle,contributor.; Moore, Alan,1953-contributor.; Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth,1977-contributor.; O'Sullivan, Simon,1967-contributor.; Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah,1967-contributor.; MacCormack, Patricia,contributor.; Pilkington, Mark,contributor.; AE,1867-1935,contributor.; Besant, Annie,1847-1933,contributor.; Leadbeater, C. W.(Charles Webster),1854-1934,contributor.; Pester, Holly,contributor.; Spare, Austin Osman,1886-1956,contributor.; Jeppesen, Travis,1979-contributor.; Leiris, Michel,1901-1990,contributor.; Hiller, Susan,contributor.; Césaire, Aimé,contributor.; Colquhoun, Ithell,1906-1988,contributor.; Zett, Anna,1983-contributor.; Sjöö, Monica,1938-2005,contributor.; Al-Maria, Sophia,contributor.; Burnham, Jack,1931-contributor.; Millar, Jeremy,contributor.; Palmer, Katrina,contributor.; Davis, Erik,contributor.; Dery, Mark,1959-contributor.; Graham, Elaine L.,contributor.; Kelley, Mike,1954-2012,contributor.; Sconce, Jeffrey,1962-contributor.; Smith, Giulia,contributor.; Leslie, Esther,1964-contributor.; Bucknell, Alice,contributor.; Zhang, Gary Zhexi,contributor.; Allāhyārī, Mūrahʹshīn,1985 or 1986-contributor.; Gallerneaux, Kristen,contributor.; Moalemi, Mahan,contributor.; Sholette, Gregory,contributor.; Gach, Aaron,contributor.; Thacker, Eugene,contributor.; Stearns, David,contributor.; Heartscape, Porpentine,contributor.; Di Prima, Diane,contributor.; Doyle, Allan,contributor.; Hine, Phil,contributor.; Stupart, Linda,contributor.; LaBarge, Emily,contributor.; Cornum, Lou,contributor.; Hale, Amy,contributor.; Heinemann, Caspar,contributor.; KMT, Joy,contributor.; Wark, Scott,contributor.; Wark, McKenzie,1961-contributor.; Bonney, Sean(Poet),contributor.; Wang, Jackie,contributor.; MIT Press,publisher.; Whitechapel Art Gallery,publisher.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a "magical-critical" thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present"--

Subjects: Art, Modern; Art, Modern; Art and magic.;

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The cosmic joker / by Innes, Brian,1928-2014.(CARDINAL)712147;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Details the work of American writer Charles Fort and others who recorded events that had no scientific explanation, such as objects falling from the sky, human psychic powers, unusual disappearances, and odd coincidences.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Fort, Charles, 1874-1932; Science; Science; Curiosities and wonders;

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Charles Fort : the man who invented the supernatural / by Steinmeyer, Jim,1958-(CARDINAL)525651;

Includes bibliographical references (303-322) and index.Author's introduction -- But the damned will march -- Toddy's nose bleeds so readily -- Littleness that was no longer there -- We wrapped the piece of cake to keep always -- Blue miles, green miles, yellow miles -- We, then a great famous man -- Anybody could write a true story -- Leaping out of a window, head first -- "To work!" cried Mr. Birtwhistle -- X exists! -- A battle is about to be fought -- It is a religion -- Children cry for it -- The London triangle -- That frog would be God -- The world has cut me out : I have cut myself out -- A welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles -- Not a bottle of catsup can fall without being noted -- Beginning anywhere -- Fall in! forward! march!The seminal biography of the twentieth century's premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort--a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained.

Subjects: Biographies.; Fort, Charles, 1874-1932.; Curiosities and wonders.; Parapsychologists; Science writers; Supernatural;

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Think to new worlds : the cultural history of Charles Fort and his followers / by Buhs, Joshua Blu,author.(CARDINAL)464122;

Includes bibliographical references and index.First must we think to new worlds -- Budget of paradoxes -- The motor of history -- The mermaids have come to the desert -- The cosmic aquarium -- Future history."How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of bizarre occurrences: dogs that talked, vampires, strange visions in the sky, and paranormal activity. His books of anomalies advanced a philosophy that saw science as a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsehood continually transformed into one another. His work found a ragged following of skeptics who questioned not only science but the press, medicine, and politics. Though their worldviews varied, they shared compelling questions about genius, reality, and authority. At the center of this community was ad man, writer, and enfant terrible Tiffany Thayer, who founded the Fortean Society and ran it for almost three decades, collecting and reporting on every manner of oddity and conspiracy. In Think to New Worlds, Joshua Blu Buhs argues that the Fortean effect on modern culture is deeper than you think. Fort's descendants provided tools to expand the imagination, explore the social order, and demonstrate how power was exercised. Science fiction writers put these ideas to work as they sought to uncover the hidden structures undergirding reality. Avant-garde modernists-including the authors William Gaddis, Henry Miller, and Ezra Pound, as well as Surrealist visual artists-were inspired by Fort's writing about metaphysical and historical forces. And in the years following World War II, flying saucer enthusiasts convinced of alien life raised questions about who controlled the universe. Buhs's meticulous and entertaining book takes a respectful look at a cast of oddballs and eccentrics, plucking them from history's margins and spotlighting their mark on American modernism. Think to New Worlds is a timely consideration of a group united not only by conspiracies and mistrust of science but by their place in an ever-expanding universe rich with unexplained occurrences and visionary possibilities"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Fort, Charles, 1874-1932; Fort, Charles, 1874-1932.; Fortean Society.; Science writers; Science fiction, American; Science in literature.; Authors, American;

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