Amok, fourth dispatch, 1990

by Brian King, Stuart Swezey

In the days before the internet, it was difficult to research subcultures, alternative theories or classified information. This volume, describing thousands of obscure publications & other media, gives a rare insight in these hidden worlds.

Arranged according to its own ground-breaking taxonomy, the AMOK Dispatch takes you through the extremes of information: from Control (analyses of power structures from the Trilateral Commission to the American Psychiatric Assn.) to Mayhem (true crime, disasters, forensic medicine) to Neuropolitics (psychedelia, parapsychology, brain chemistry) to Scratch 'n' Sniff (pop culture and kitsch) to Orgone (sexuality, the body, and the life-force) and more…