GOBLIN QUEENS AND QUALIA KNIGHTS
  A Guide to Xisting in a Time of Catastrophes
      Phil Smith  

Publication: 20th July 2024
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List Price: £12.50
Format: ~ Paperback - 64pp
Size: 14 x 21.6 cm
ISBN: 978-1-913743-93-2
Tags: chivalry; climate change, social media, hyper-capitalism, movement; movement meditation; walking arts, contemporary myth

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Covert: A Handbook
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Repurposing the codes of chivalry and courtly love
in an existential crisis

Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights is a little book of comfort for people who are troubled by the way that life is being hollowed out by:
social media, life on the phone, climate change, populist politics, banality, hyper-capitalism, AI and so on.

It suggests clever and simple ways to remain true to yourself, even to be yourself, in the face of a thousand pressures to become someone else. It makes life into a pilgrimage of purpose, humour, awareness and compassion.
It offers a contemporary myth and initiation and a range of simple somatic practices that could change your life. 
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It can be used by anyone who wants to lessen their digital dependence and deepen their connection with their surroundings. It can be used by coaches, therapists and teachers - as well as walking artists, writers and anyone with a general interest in movement and somatics or politics and pedestrianism.
As things close in and the algorithms delve deeper, Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights offers a way to make space for yourself to ‘Xist’. Based in modesty and minimum footprint, this is a handbook for maximising the colourful interior of a life, and intensifying connections to a troubled more-than human universe.

Will you accept the quest from your Goblin Queen?

In the face of a receding future, this book deploys the remnants of a medieval code and the romances of courtly love, detaching them from their former aristocratic fetters, as a rich source of quests and intrigues. It’s a handbook
for unveiling a way to a deep inner life and cultivating an intuition about - and sensitive awareness of - vast and distant others.

Part moral code, part ticket to multiplying desires, the paradoxical path of Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights is a map to losing identity and embracing something more fundamental, more ancient and essential if there is to be a future.
This is a handbook for covertly becoming a Qualia Knight or a Goblin Queen. Read the Introduction

Early Reviews 

"Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights is shorter than most books on magic but it supersedes pretty much all of them. The slow cancellation of the future just became less certain."
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