Politics of the Imagination: The Life,
Work and Ideas of Charles Fort
(Critical Vision) by Colin Bennett
Anomalist Book Award 2002 -- Best Biography
Politics of the Imagination is an account of the life and work of Charles Fort
(1874–1932). Born in Albany, New York, Fort spent almost his entire life
searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the
British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere
facade. In a series of books—The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!,
and Wild Talents—Fort argued that science was a new form of social
control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe
by editing out paradoxes, miracles, and paranormal events.
Politics has a foreword by John Keel, whose book The Mothman
Prophecies is now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere.

Personal Review: Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and
Ideas of Charles Fort (Critical Vision) by Colin Bennett
If Thomas Pynchon had any interest in Charles Fort, this is the kind of
book that might result. It's far more than a biography (Damon Knight
already did that), but a literary study of Fort the writer, as well as a
postmodern rant on the illusory nature of facts and reality in the light of
Fort's philosophy. Bennett, like Fort, sees "explanations," especially those
provided by science, as a superficial means of understanding. Even more
than in his previous book, Looking for Orthon, Bennett does battle with
modern skepticism, which he sees as a debilitating contemporary illness.
This is a great, big, heady stew of a book full of references to literature,
arts, philosophy and more-much, much more. Bennett takes Fort and runs
for the goalposts--I don't think anyone else could have done him justice.
This book is a monster, a raised fist at the orthodox prison of the mind that
is contemporary culture.
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