Ebook: Rants & Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illumination 1558-Present

The rants in this collection are organized chronologically. This arrangement may at first appear unhelpful or unimaginative, but rants are unruly beasts, not easily pigeonholed. Several loose categories were considered: "fuck you" rants; guerrilla rants; social darwinist rants; ethical rants; ants-in-the-pants rants; folk science rants; arty rants; leave-me/us-alone rants. But no matter how all-inclusive we made each category, the rants mewled and puked and sprawled across several categories simultaneously or else demanded their own. Although this is a historical anthology, the chronological arrangement ironically betrays a certain timeless quality: man-unkind has been ranting about the same concerns for a half of a millennium.