{"product_id":"the-phantasmogenetic-centre-brandan-kearney","title":"The Phantasmogenetic Centre - B. Kearney","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Phantasmogenetic Centre by B. Kearney \/ 121-page paperback, 5 x 8 inches, published in 2026 by Hobo Borealis \/ ISBN 9798881717728\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Those who have not learned to give form and shape to their ideas while on earth have to pursue a more painful and laborious process after their death, and exercise an influence more far-reaching an they themselves ever dreamed of.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis ghost-ridden pornographic antibildungsroman was carefully assembled no more than two lines at a time from hundreds of public domain books digitized by Project Gutenberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \n\u003cp\u003eMosaic fragments of fiction, philosophy, psychology, erotica, biography, theology, poetry, mysticism and instructional textsw form a broadly coherent narrative connecting the nightmares of the early 20th century to those of the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn to one another by their fear of women, three sexually overwrought young men of Edwardian England cast in their lot with a mysterious professor, heir to a South African diamond mine, whose underground laboratory houses an electronic brain powered by the residual thought-energy of putrefying corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDisillusioned first by boarding-school orgies and then by industrialized necromancy, the three friends resolve to enter politics with a daring proposal to banish women and children to a selective breeding facility on the moon. Routed by suffragettes, they are obliged to seek whatever remains of their fortune in the limb-strewn trenches of an unspecified war, where death waits as the penultimate disappointment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \n\u003cp\u003eAn outlying milestone in experimental fiction, misandrist satire and artisanal plagiarism, The Phantasmogenetic Centre is a timely, cruel repurposing of the untimely words of dead and largely forgotten authors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hobo Borealis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48964303978721,"sku":"9798881717728","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/5215\/0960\/files\/Kearney-Phantasmogenetic-Centre.jpg?v=1794277891","url":"https:\/\/50wattsbooks.com\/products\/the-phantasmogenetic-centre-brandan-kearney","provider":"50 Watts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}