The Invisibles
by Grant Morrison · first published 1968
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Every paranoid fantasy, every conspiracy theory, every alleged cover-up and government deception, every tabloid story you've ever heard ... imagine if it all were true. Discover a world where paranoia is a survival skill and the only hope for mankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters-The Invisibles. This second trade paperback collection first appeared in The Invisibles Volume 2 #1-4 and are now collected in this volume.
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…Echopraxia by Peter Watts - The Tao Te Ching - The Gateless Gate (Koun Yamada translation/editing) - The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) by Neal Stephenson - The Invisibles by Grant Morrison - Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, The Bed of Procrustes) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Iron John by Robert Bly - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - The Character…
on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗If you're getting into comics, I can strongly recommend Transmetropolitan, The Invisibles, Saga, and the original Sandman books (there are a tonne of new ones now, and none have really clicked). I'm also part way through Supergods by Grant Morrison. It's not a comic, but an autobiography-cum-history…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading these days?” ↗On a metaphysical level I think Grant Morrison touched on conventional counterculture in The Invisibles. Counterculture is just another, essential part of The System expressing itself. Things happen because of The system you're inside The System, and your "individualism" is an emergent property of it. The…
on “The Counterculture Is Better in the Suburbs” ↗Combine it with Morrison's The Invisibles. "Big Brother is watching. Learn to move indescribably."
on “China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk” ↗I think the Gnosticism of The Matrix comes at least in part from Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.
on “The Reality War – It’s just Gnostics all the way down” ↗