Of the photograph on the front cover of this book. Intensify the Phonotron: ultra magnetic MCsĮvery effort has been made by the publishers to clear permiss i on for the useĮscape into psychopathogenetics: Dr octagon 03 Sampladelia of the Breakbeat The moral right of the author has been asserted. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or byĠ2 Transmaterializing the Breakbeat The Metamorphonic Machine is Motion-Capturing Your Nervous System : Grandmaster Flash, Knights of the Turntable Kidnapped by the Kinaesthetics of the Break: Mantronix and Chep NunezĪny means without the prior written of the publisher. OO operating System for the Redesign of sonic Reality 01 World 4: Mutantextures of Jazz First published in Great Britain byĪnachronic Cybernetics of the world: George RussellĮlectronic Swarm Program : Teo Macero & Miles Davis, Herbie HancockĪ member of the Namara Group 27 Goodge street London W1P 2LD Copyright by Kodwo Eshun 1998 All rights reserved. ' Its mission is to undermine the concepts this present has of "Health" and "Culture" and to excite mockery and hatred against these hybrid monsters of concepts.' More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction: Concept Engineered By Kodwo Eshun More Brilliant Than The Sun is a machine for travelling at the speed of thought, a probe for drilling into new levels of possibility space. He is not a cultural critic or cultural commentator so much as a concept engineer, an imagineer at the millenium 's end writing on electronic music, science fiction, technoculture, gameculture, drug culture, post war movies and post war art for The Face, The Wire, i-D, Melody Maker, Spin, Arena and The Guardian. After eight days he switched to Literary Theory, magazine journalism and running clubs. At 17, Kodwo Eshun won an Open Scholarship to read Law at University College, Oxford.