Confessions of a Failed Egoist | Trevor Blake

Author: Trevor BlakePublisher: Underworld AmusementsPages: 140 Size: 5.25x8"Release date: March, 2014 ISBN: 978-0988553651Explication, rumination and fulmination from Portland author Trevor Blake. Sixteen selections range from a critique of Objectivism to the career of filmmaker Nabil Shaban (focusing on The Skin Horse, a documentary on the sex lives of cripples). In addition there is a history and usage of Multiple Names (popular from obscure art movements like Neoism to common folk mythologies), a biographical sketch of Baltimore native and mutant tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, among other topics. Putting the "I" in "history", the author touches on a cultural history of Egoism, a personal "trajectory" through Anarchism, and his personal shift on 9/11 are also detailed herein. "Confessions of a Failed Egoist‚ is somewhere at the crossroads between The Satanic Bible and Prometheus Rising. Everything you know is wrong, but don't worry: It's just the punchline to the great epistemic joke. B