Library
Welcome to the Provokateur library, the perfect place to get distracted from the normal agency blah blah.Make as much noise as you like.
- A Modest Proposal
- A Nice Cup of Tea
- The Last Letter
- First Things First
- I Have Sinned
- Knowledge & Propaganda
- Wear Sunscreen
- SCUM Manifesto
- Stanford speech
- Engineering of Consent
- The Jumblies
- Sermon on the Mount
- Three Cats
- Pale Blue Dot
- War Prayer
- Rivers of Blood
- War is a Racket
- Oz
- Hunting of the Snark
- The Shadow
- An ideal for which I am prepared to die
OPENING TIMES The library is always open it’s just the books that shut.
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A Modest Proposal
In these times of financial recession and economic anxiety, Swift’s Modest Proposal makes for a compelling read.
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A Nice Cup of Tea
A charming essay from the man better known for his vision of fascist dystopia and overambitious farm animals.
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The Last Letter
A story so well known that as you read his final letter you can imagine Scott in those final desperate times.
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First Things First
Ken Garland’s 1964 manifesto has always inspired Provokateur. Check out the Adbusters re-write in 2000.
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I Have Sinned
Who else but Bill Clinton could express sincere contrition and political acuity in the same breath?
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Knowledge & Propaganda
Chilling, brilliant and remarkably modern from the Josef Goebbels, the master of modern propaganda.
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Wear Sunscreen
Written by Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen is an essay that zings with spirit and intelligence. Love it.
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SCUM Manifesto
Solanas is best known for her attempt to kill Andy Warhol and her passionate manifesto for a world without men.
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Stanford speech
It’s been much quoted since the great man’s death, but with good reason. It’s not so much a speech as a personal manifesto.
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Engineering of Consent
Edward Bernays is a bit of a hero here at Provokateur Towers. The father of modern PR was a candid yet razor sharp writer.
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The Jumblies
"They went to sea in a sieve, they did / In a sieve they went to sea." Masterful, wonderful nonsense.
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Sermon on the Mount
Whatever your beliefs, the Sermon on the Mount is a revolutionary speech. No wonder he pissed people off.
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Three Cats
Delightful cat abusing nonsense from the master himself.
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Pale Blue Dot
Karl Sagan’s thoughts on seeing a photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft 6 billion km away.
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War Prayer
Mark Twain's War Prayer seems to possess an electricity that makes the reader tingle. An astonishing piece of writing.
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Rivers of Blood
Read Powell’s rather grotty little speech delivered in 1968.
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War is a Racket
Written in the 1930's, General Smedley's candid account of the War Business remains curiously relevant. Halliburton, anyone?
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Oz
The seminal counter cultural magazine of the sixties and seventies remains an inspiration to designers and troublemakers.
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Hunting of the Snark
Without a doubt, Carroll’s masterpiece is one of the most exceptional, artful and incredible pieces of nonsense ever written.
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The Shadow
Think fairy tales are for children? This story from Hans Christian Anderson is anything but...
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Mandela
The full text of Nelson Mandela’s historic address from the dock at his trial for sabotage on April 20th 1964.
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