Blurred Lines: A Reading List of Metafiction
postmodernity is characterized by frictions between structurally incommensurate political diagrams,where ultimately one is…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
In terms of reading, autumn is the time I indulge in the dark and mysterious world of gothic novels.
Andrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
We crave the weird—the quirky, the eccentric, the peculiar, the freaky, the far-out—because it estranges us from our normal habits of thought and perception, nullifies old conceptual maps, and so propels us into uncharted regions, outlandish and bracing, where we must create, if we are to thrive, coordinates more capacious than the ones we already
... See moreEric G. Wilson • How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life
in the true Narcissus style of one hypnotized by the amputation and extension of his own being in a new technical form.
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media
taste for the strange is no better, because it deforms the way we look at the documents. What is left, at the level of the spoken words, is to set about the delicate analysis of the unusual, separating it from both the mundane and the exceptional.