term "anarcho-technocrat". "He regarded the age of man as passed, and sees the age of the machine as the proper object of pursuit... In his quest for power over machines, Hooton is a technocrat, and in his opposition to power over men, he is an anarchist." Hooton never completed his philosophical treatise, titled "Militant Materialism", although he did complete six of its eight chapters. His ideas were magically simple. Leave man alone, man is perfect. Concentrate instead on matter. He formulated what he called Anarcho-technocracy: 'The Politics of Things'. Hooton saw proof copies of the last book published during his lifetime, It Is Great To Be Alive, published by Margaret Elliott (Margaret Fink), just before he died of cancer in 1961. An 83-minute experimental film, Harry Hooton – Outsider Poet was made by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill in 1969. In the soundtrack, Hooton outlines his social philosophy in a series of recordings made shortly before his death in 1961. Bibliography Pogonoski, R. G. "These Poets" (poetry collection) Newcastle 1941 Cooney, W. A. "Things You See When You Haven't Got a Gun" (poetry collection) 1943 "It is Great To Be Alive" (poetry collection) published by Margaret Elliott for 21st Century Art Group, Sydney 1961 "Anarcho-Technocracy: The Politics of Things" (four-page pamphlet) 1953 "The Politics of Things" Essay published in 21st Century: The Magazine of a Creative Civilization, September 1955 "Power Over Things" (collection), Inferno Press, USA, 1955 "Poet of the 21st Century: Harry Hooton—Collected Poems". Edited by Sasha Soldatow. Collins/Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1990 References Notes Further reading Hooton, Harry Anarcho–Technocracy The Politics of Things. Précis, from 4-page pamphlet, c.1953. At Radical Tradition, Takver.com May, James Boyer "Concerning a Maker". Essay on Hooton in Selected Essays and Criticism. Villiers Publications, London 1957 Soldatow, Sasha Hooton, Henry Arthur (1908–1961) Australian National Dictionary of Biography, 1996 Hooton, Harry Geometry for Beginners (It is better to prefer than to prove) & It'll Be All Wrong in the End (Two poems published in Beloit Poetry Journal, 1953, 1954) Hooton, Harry Poetry or Not Essay published in the Australian Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep. 1943), pp. 87–96 Hooton, Harry Poetry and the New Proletariat Essay published in the Australian Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun. 1946), pp. 96–104 Hooton, Harry The Dictatorship of Art Essay published in the Australian Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar. 1949), pp. 61–71 Coombs, Anne "Sex and Anarchy: the Life