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Alan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World
Wouter Hanegraaff, 2016
https://www.academia.edu/28890953/Alan_Moores_Promethea_Countercultural_Gnosis_and_the_End_of_the_World_2016_
Promethea, by Alan Moore – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethea —
“Promethea is a comic book series created by Alan Moore, J. H. Williams III and Mick Gray, published by America’s Best Comics/WildStorm.
“It tells the story of Sophie Bangs, a college student from an alternate futuristic New York City in 1999, who embodies the powerful entity known as Promethea whose task it is to bring the Apocalypse.
“Originally published as 32 issues from 1999 to 2005, the series has been re-published into five graphic novels and one hard-back issue. Moore weaves in elements of magic and mysticism along with superhero mythology and action, spirituality and the afterlife (in particular the Tree of Life) and science-fiction. Promethea includes wide-ranging experimentation with visual styles and art.”
“cyber disciple” YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVrwl3M_yZw9p3V4B2km23A/videos
Cyb’s WordPress page about Prometheus 29 – https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/09/20/promethea-29-reading-and-commentary-videos/
Cyb’s WordPress page about Prometheus 28 – https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/promethea-28-reading-and-commentary-videos/
YouTube Playlist for all these videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRbxjVUeSE2WkpgKtPCtP4afdTaOBOjDQ
Cyberdisciple reads and comments on Promethea #28 by Moore and Williams III.
Commentary focused on how the words and images contribute to provoking apocalyptic change in the reader.
Commentary informed by the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence by Michael Hoffman. https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com
Promethea – Reading and Commentary by cyberdisciple
Promethea 29
Promethea 29, part 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN4XAY-bn4o
Promethea 29, part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtD4Wgbupc
Promethea 29, part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIs_hLBC7bA
Promethea 29, part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiebRLWk5A
Promethea 29, part 1: Introduction and Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfeWvk8OPQ
Promethea 28
Promethea 28, part 4 (coda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HbUySTZuLQ
Topics include:
- Use of photorealism to portray shift from drawn comic world to state of higher perceptions
Promethea 28, part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMj67EYRzKc
Topics include:
- Confluence of author, characters, and readers
- Multiple, converging analogies for control source injecting thoughts into mind: wand in cup, swizzle stick in glass, sex, music
- Ritual
- Premonition
- The egoic construct as pre-programmed killing machine
Promethea 28, part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epeimq2bk1o
Topics include:
- Collage art
- Book of life / memory
- Flat comic and representationalism of self and mental constructs
- Comic book addressing readers, pulling them in
- Convergence of end of comic publishing line and apocalypse
- Betrayal, revelation
- The egoic construct as pre-programmed killing machine
- Imagination of altered state over dreariness of ordinary egoic state
Promethea 28, part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5mavefK5V8
Topics include:
- Collage art
- Perceptual change
- Disruption of comic book itself by Promethea
- Transition from flatworld to multi-dimensional world
Promethea 28, part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLRtAslkBB4
Cyberdisciple reads and comments on Promethea #28 by Moore and Williams III.
Commentary focused on how the words and images contribute to provoking apocalyptic change in the reader.
Commentary informed by the Cybernetic Theory of Ego Transcendence by Michael Hoffman. https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com
Topics include:
- Collage art
- Time perception changing
- Holiness of all things
- 9/11/01 and the Apocalypse
- Disruption of normal comic frames
- Consciousness of ordinary humans affected by presence of Promethea, embodiment of imagination.
- Meta commentary
The Egodeath theory 