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Abstracts
The essayistic introduction to this little collection of abstract poems attempts to point up a distinction between poetry and antipoetry, and then to contrast both of these with what has been termed superpoems - the abstract...
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Omeganotes: Of an Ideological Philosopher
The winter of 1996-97 saw John O'Loughlin begin and eventually bring to a close a work of philosophy which rose above what he had already achieved (see, for instance, 'Maximum Omega') in terms of the degree to which he was able to...
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The Modern Death
Dating from 1984, this collection of forty-four poems continues in the free-verse style of 'Spiritual Intimations' (1983), albeit the verse is at all times prevented from degenerating into prose through the application of a...
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Revolutions: Of an Ideological Philosopher
One could regard this 1997 project as conceptually similar to 'Omeganotes of an Ideological Philosopher' (1996-7), John O'Loughlin's previous title, since it is no less essential and informal in structure, and just as thematically...
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Revelations: Of an Ideological Philosopher
One could regard this aphoristic project by John O'Loughlin as conceptually similar to 'Revolutions of an Ideological Philosopher' (1997), since it continues the cyclical progressions from approximately where they left off in the...
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Supercontemplations: Experiments in Abstraction
Unlike John O'Loughlin's first collection of non-readerly abstract poems and/or poetic word art, simply called 'Contemplations' (1985), which was uniformly lower-case in its monosyllabic structures, this later project, which dates...
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The Illusory Truth
Divided into three parts, of which the first is by far the longest, this philosophical sequel to 'Between Truth and Illusion' (1977), expands on the dualistic theories therein outlined, abandoning the more literary approach of its...
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The Way of Evolution: Philosophical Essays
Dating from 1981, this collection of essays is thematically more homogeneous than anything previously written by John O'Loughlin in the genre and reflects a newly-acquired optimistic outlook on evolutionary progress as something...
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An Interview Reviewed: Music in the Study
A philosophic-cum-romantic novel based around an interview that backfires and results in various complications for both the interviewer and his magazine, which are not without ironic and humorous overtones which require some kind...
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Fixed Limits: Excerpts from a Journal by Michael Savage
If John O'Loughlin's first novel 'Changing Worlds' betrays the influence (through souped-up interior monologue) of James Joyce on his early fiction, then the chief inspiration behind this fictional journal was undoubtedly...
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Sublimated Relations: The Voice Museum
A young religious writer named Timothy Byrne accepts an invitation from a certain Lord Handon, an aristocratic admirer of his work, to spend New Year's Eve in the company of a select gathering at Rothermore House, Handon's country...
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Changing Worlds
John O'Loughlin's first novel, written during the summer of 1976, is a largely autobiographical account of three days in the life of a clerk-turning-writer Michael Savage, whose disillusionment with the drudgery of office work has...
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A Question of Belief: Philosophical Dialogues
John O'Loughlin first got the idea of writing a collection of dialogues in 1978 after reading the French philosopher Diderot, one of the outstanding practitioners of the genre, and the results, several weeks later, were four...
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Maximum Omega
Dating from 1996, 'Maximum Omega', the aphoristic sequel to 'Omega Maxims' which puns the word 'maxims', probably does more justice to Truth, or metaphysical knowledge, than any of John O'Loughlin's works prior to this date, with...
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Last (W)Rites
Continuing in the vein of the revolutionary transvaluations characteristic of both 'Occasional Maxims' (1994) and 'Maximum Occasions' (1994-5), this volume of aphoristic philosophy nevertheless returns us, in due cumulative...
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From Satan to Saturn
Conceived in loosely cyclical form, this 1994 project harks back to the author's 'supernotational' works, which date from the mid-80s, comprising essayistic aphorisms and aphoristic notes, in respect of the greater variety of...
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Eternal Life: Supernotes from Beyond
Progressing through 125 cycles of sequentially-numbered essayistic aphorisms (supernotes), 'Eternal Life' ... subtitled 'Supernotes from Beyond' ... brings John O'Loughlin's philosophy to a kind of theosophical head in what is...
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Book of Beliefs: ‘The Omegala’
This 1996 project, the title of which, viz. 'Book of Beliefs', arguably owes something to Henry Miller's 'Book of Friends' in its informal structure and the subtitle of which, viz. 'The Omegala', is an oblique tribute to anything...
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From Punishment to Grace
Akin in structure to 'From Satan to Saturn', its immediate predecessor, this second 1994 text is nonetheless arguably more cyclically methodical and aphoristically consistent, as it develops its curvilinear style through some...
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Omega Maxims
Dating from 1996, 'Omega Maxims' is a further instalment of the aphoristic purism to which John O'Loughlin had last committed his pen with 'Maximum Occasions' (1994-5), and constitutes, with well over 1000 maxims, what we regard...
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The Apocalypso Quartet
Following on from 'The Virtuous Circles Quartet' (2003), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'Apocalypso - The New Revelation', 'At the Crossroads of Axial Divergence',...
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Occasional Maxims
This 1994 project is comprised of some 323 notational maxims of variable length and quality, most of which are nevertheless significantly more complex than anything previously attempted by John O'Loughlin in the genre, with...
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From Superfluous Man to Superman: Revised and Reformatted Weblogs
All the pieces in this third collection of revised and reformatted weblogs originally hosted by Wordpress.com date, like the previous two, from 2011, which would seem to be a pretty productive year for Mr O'Loughlin. As before,...
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Prophet Over Profit: A Philosophical Journal
Conceived in the semi-literary but arguably highly abstract form of a philosophical journal, this 2016 project by John O'Loughlin continues from previous titles, like 'Black Sabbaticals' and 'Supercrossed', with his analyses of...
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Ethnic Universality: The Next Totalitarianism
This book takes John O'Loughlin's philosophy to something approaching a definitive level in relation to those attributes of each of the Elements which make will, spirit, ego and soul possible, and cause them to jostle for primacy...
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No Man-Oeuvre: On the Highway of Truth
Conceived on a similar aphoristic basis to 'Ethnic Universality' (2002), its immediate precursor, this title, with its pun on manoeuvre, lays down the case for godly rights in relation to the development of globalization towards...
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The End of Evolution
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The Omega Quartet
The four books of poetry that make up this quartet were written during 1982-5, at a time when John O'Loughlin had rekindled his interest in poetry from a standpoint partial to what he then called 'collectivized literature'. Such...
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The Radical Progress Quartet
Following on from 'The Apocalypso Quartet' (2003), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume the titles 'Radical Progress', 'Stairway to Judgement', 'A Perfect Resolution', and 'The...
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Occasional Maxims & Maximum Occasions
Originally dating from 1994, 'Occasional Maxims' is composed of some 323 notational maxims of variable length and quality, most of which are nonetheless significantly more complex than anything previously attempted by John...
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Black Sabbaticals: Towards a Re-Evaluation of All Terminological Values
Few books can have undergone so many re-evaluations as this one, which has developed a fresh approach to terms which the author was apt to take for granted in recent years, never imagining that, one day, they would undergo such...
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The Maximum Omega Quartet
A four-book volume of maxims and aphorisms, most of which have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced. Originally dating from 1994, 'Occasional Maxims' and 'Maximum Occasions' pave the way for 'Omega...
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The Virtuous Circles Quartet
Following on from 'The Ethnic Universality Quartet' (2002), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'The Virtuous Circles', 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom', 'Apotheosis of the...
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Keys to the Kingdom of Truth: That Unlock the Gates of Social Theocracy
This, to put it bluntly, is simply the crowning achievement of John O'Loughlin's philosophical oeuvre, of his decades-long quest for philosophical perfection through the pursuance and comprehension of Truth, whether interpreted...
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Dictionary of Geopolitics
This guide contains 219 entries which consist of full-length essays about the major schools, doctrines, strategies, people, controversies and policies of geopolitics, in the main countries concerned. They are cross-referenced and...
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Stressing the Essential
This collection of mainly philosophical poems, written during 1982, may serve to confirm that John O'Loughlin had considerably deepened his approach to and concept of poetry since 1973-4, principally with those poems included in...
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Opus D'Oeuvre
With subjects that range from modern architecture and myth to the relationship of sensuality to sensibility in the evolution of media technology, this book is sufficiently variegated to be of general interest even if it didn't...
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Freedom and Determinism: The Gender Agenda
Building on the structural comprehensiveness achieved in 'The Myth of Equality' (2001), this volume of aphoristic philosophy returns us to the concept of the so-called 'Triadic Beyond', and explains the distinction, hitherto...
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Post-Atomic Integrities
This little novella, based around an autobiographical fantasy, relates the nocturnal visit of an old acquaintance to the flat of a former admirer who, being something of a philosopher, had optimistically written to her in the hope...
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The Politics of Sexuality
As a six-chapter novella with first-person narrative and a loosely autobiographical tendency this text explores the concept of sexual politics, or the notion that every mode of politics has a sexual corollary. Although such an...
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Last Judgements: Of a Messianic Philosopher
The structural quadruplicities of this title tend to sum up and/or refine upon a number of the principal theories already discussed in books like 'Philosophical Truth' (1991-2) and 'Veritas Philosophicus' (1992), as well as lay...
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Opti-Mystic Projections
Although structurally and thematically similar to 'At the Crossroads of Axial Divergence' (2003), comprised, as ever, of aphoristic notes, this work represents a quantum leap forward in certain areas which are explored more...
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Evolution
The sixteen prose poems in this modest collection should ideally be suited to those who prefer their poetry prosy and mainly concerned with philosophical issues or, at any rate, with a philosophical treatment of issues and...
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The Ideological Philosophy: Of Social Transcendentalism
Although structurally similar, this work enlarges on the scope and content of 'Revelations of an Ideological Philosopher' (1997), as we are made aware of the extent to which Social Transcendentalism is both ideological and...
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The Core of the Self
Written after 'The Soul of Being' (1998), this further step in John O'Loughlin's philosophical or, as he now prefers to think of it, superphilosophical (theosophical?) journey brings us, via twenty-three headed sections numbered...
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The Kingdom of the Soul
With implications that stretch into the author's concept of 'Kingdom Come', this volume of aphoristic philosophy adds one or two fresh ideas to 'The Core of the Self' (1998), its immediate rung-like predecessor on his ladder of...
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The Soul of Being
Conceived in a chronologically continuous aphoristic terms, this 1998 project by John O'Loughlin is nevertheless divided into twelve sections, each of which bears a headed title in quasi-essayistic vein. Examples of such titles...
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Beyond Imagination
This project is for the author another high-point in a long and winding philosophical career which has led him, inexorably, towards the 'celestial city' of heavenly truth and thus towards the omega point of his oeuvre, wherein...
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