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Howard Bloom – The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong – New Book Coming in 2025
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is the latest book of paradigm-challenges from Howard Bloom, the man Britain’s Channel 4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Freud of the 21st century. And the Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong just may turn your existing view of yourself and of the universe you live in upside down and inside out.
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos says that we’ve got nature all wrong. The Sexual Cosmos tells the tale of the universe from the big bang to what’s going on in your brain as you read this sentence, unmasking a startling face of the evolutionary saga. Nature is green in tooth and claw.
In The Case of the Sexual Cosmos’ meticulously-researched telling of the evolutionary story, life does not live in harmony with nature. Far from it. Life does not take nature lying down. Life is obstreperous. Life is uppity. Life is impertinent. Life is not a mere survivor. Life is a doomrider and a catastrophe tamer. Life takes nature apart and puts her back together in whole new ways. Nature uses life to reinvent herself.
What’s more, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos proposes a scientific paradigm shift. The book argues that it’s time to toss out one of science’s most cherished concepts, The Second Law of Thermodynamics. The law that all things fall apart. The Case of the Sexual Cosmos proposes that the Second Law be replaced by The First Law of Flamboyance. The law that things do not just fall apart. They fall together.
And The Case of the Sexual Cosmos shows what this means to your life and mine.
MacArthur Genius Award winner Richard Foreman says The Case Of The Sexual Cosmos is “a massive achievement. Wow!” BBC-TV producer of seven science series including Connections, James Burke, calls The Case of the Sexual Cosmos “a triumph…full of surprises, unexpected connections, [and] complexifying outcomes ” Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society Gregory Matloff calls The Case of the Sexual Cosmos “a masterwork.”
Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian Institution says that The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is “enjoyable and compelling.” And Harvard’s Ellen Langer says that The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is “a fascinating read…….[Bloom] argues that we are not savaging the earth as some would have it, but instead are growing the cosmos.”
Concludes novelist Helen Zuman, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos pulls “us out of Greta Thunberg’s self-hate machine” and shows that, “The true tragedy is not war or climate catastrophe. It’s rejecting the exuberant flamboyance of exactly who we are.”
More About Howard Bloom:
Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. One of his eight books–Global Brain—was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. A former Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Graduate Psychology Department, a former Core Faculty member at the Graduate Institute in Meriden, Connecticut, and the current Kepler Space University Professor of Practice, Bloom has been published in journals or has spoken at scholarly conferences in twelve different scientific fields, from quantum physics and cosmology to neuroscience, information theory, and biopolitics. He calls this multi-disciplinary approach “Omnology.” Concludes Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.”
Before there was a science of influence, before algorithms decided who mattered and viral moments manufactured stars overnight, there was Howard Bloom — working the phones, shaping narratives, and building some of the most enduring legends in the history of popular music.
In an era when the music industry ran on relationships, instinct, and the sheer force of personality, Bloom was operating on a different level entirely. He wasn’t just doing publicity. He was doing something closer to cultural architecture — understanding not just how to get an artist covered, but how to make them mean something. How to make them matter. How to embed them into the fabric of American life in a way that outlasted any single hit, any single moment, any single headline.
The roster tells the story. Prince. Billy Joel. Kiss. Lionel Richie. Michael Jackson. Bob Marley. These were not simply clients. They were cultural phenomena — and Howard Bloom was one of the key minds helping to shape what those phenomena meant to the world. At a time when rock and roll was the most powerful cultural force on the planet, Bloom was at the center of it, helping to translate raw talent into enduring mythology.
What set him apart was not hustle alone — though there was plenty of that. It was his relentless intellectual curiosity, his insistence on understanding the deeper forces at work beneath the surface of pop culture. While others in the industry were counting chart positions, Bloom was asking bigger questions. Why does this artist connect? What need are they meeting? What truth are they telling that the culture is desperate to hear? Those questions drove everything — and the results spoke for themselves.
His approach was years ahead of its time. The strategies he developed intuitively in the back rooms of the music industry would later be validated by neuroscience, sociology, and the emerging study of how ideas spread through human populations. Howard Bloom was not just a publicist. He was, without fully knowing it yet, a theorist of cultural contagion — and the music world was his laboratory.
The industry has changed beyond recognition since those years. The gatekeepers are gone, the major label system has been disrupted, and the very concept of a music publicist has been transformed by social media and the democratization of attention. But the principles Bloom operated by — find the truth in the artist, find the human need they speak to, and tell that story with everything you have — remain as relevant as ever. Perhaps more so, in a landscape where genuine meaning is harder to find and easier to fake.
Howard Bloom didn’t just help make stars. He helped define what stardom meant in the most electric and consequential era in the history of popular music. That is a legacy worth understanding — and one the industry is still catching up to.
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