{"title":"Church Ghost Pre-Orders","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"0826se0679","title":"CONSCIOUSNESS A NEO-DECADENT MANIFESTO (ONE SHOT)","description":"CONSCIOUSNESS A NEO-DECADENT MANIFESTO (ONE SHOT)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriter:  Siobhan M La Grippe\u003cbr\u003eArtist:  Siobhan M La Grippe\u003cbr\u003eCover Artist:  Siobhan M La Grippe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Neo-Decadent manifesto outlining techniques for consciousness in the 21st century and beyond. Fully illustrated with informational graphics by the author. Neo-Decadence is an international art movement built around redefining art, ideas, and everyday life in anti-utilitarian terms. The Neo-Decadent excavates all aspects of life, creating new sites for the potentiation of frightening beauty. Neo-Decadence rejects aesthetic limitations, which exist only to facilitate Neo-Passéist commercial art and Capitalist Realism. 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