Jasun Horsley is the author of several books, including the loose 'cultural engineering' trilogy Seen and Not Seen, Prisoner of Infinity and The Vice of Kings. He hosts a regular podcast, The Liminalist, at his website, Auticulture.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Confessions of a sick mind (Stanley Kubrick's Atrocity Exhibition)

His hands were tied (the Kubrick vacuum)

Secret pedophile elites

Culturally co-opted cognitive counterfeits

King culture

PART I - THE ARCHITECTURE OF IMMERSION

CHAPTER 1 - Children of Kubrick

The man

Deny all knowledge

Immersion criticism

Extraordinary facts and ridiculous flights of hermeneutic fantasy

CHAPTER 2 - Full metal emperor

Needful guesswork

Cultural warfare

The very idea of greatness, or: Stanley is as Stanley does

The works of Satan

CHAPTER 3 - Crossing the Kubrickon

Under the seat

The Overlook, again

The "final" answer?

A two-way mirror

PART II - AGENT STANLEY

CHAPTER 4 - How the solar system was won

The anomaly of Kubrick's optimistic vision of the future of man

Theft as art

Arthur C. Clarke's goldfish bowl

KUBARK: sinister associations

CHAPTER 5 - Clockwork conspiracy theories

Some facts about Stanley

Learning from The Master

Agent Orange

A clean-minded pornographer

CHAPTER 6 - The lost language of the body

Kubrick, DARPA, Simulmatics

A computational theocracy

Enter the dragon

The apple of knowledge

PART III - KING VS KING

CHAPTER 7 - The silver key

The wasp's nest

An I for an I

The writer's block

The golden Bowman

CHAPTER 8 - White man's burden, or: the Grand Unified Theory of The Shining (GUTS)

The axe blow

Historic trauma transmission (Sons of Saturn)

Adult boy

The secret ally

CHAPTER 9 - Hive mind

Word vs image

Games of thrones

Behold the para-self

DID Meets DOD: the AI breakthrough

BIBLIOGRAPHY

END NOTES

INDEX