Joseph Fattorini

Marshall McLuhan chose Marcel Duchamp’s work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) as inspiration for the title The Mechanical Bride because he saw in Duchamp’s piece a powerful metaphor for the dehumanization, fragmentation, and mechanization of human experience in the modern, media-saturated world.

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Authorship by Relocation

That’s a really sharp observation, and Frankie Boyle’s example—provocative as always—captures a fascinating concept. While “authorship by relocation” doesn’t appear to be an established academic term in literary theory or media studies, the idea he’s gesturing at does intersect with several known concepts across different

When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking