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extreme physical trauma of the World Trade Center collapse, yet electronic data emerges intact from its ruins.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
noblesse oblige,
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
a substantial number of persons with no discernible function at all.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
decepticated,
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
“I was not to be near the powder mill. I was to be kept from the populace, to live among scholars and the rich. Not to see the poor. Not to see anything ugly. I was to be wrapped up in cotton in a box in a wrapping in a carton in a plastic film, like everything here. There I was to be happy and do my work, the work I could not do on Anarres. And wh
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
The psychologist’s habit of allowing a slim smile to cross her face at inappropriate times made me want to slap her.
Jeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
The steady amputation of limbs and thorax, head and abdomen by teams of students, which would reduce each cadaver by term’s end to a clutch of bones and a burial tag, exactly matched the erosion of the world around the high-rise.