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Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
Let’s consider the truth behind advertising. [This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor of a small journal. You open your email...
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The Semiotics of GrubHub
For a year or so now I’ve been noticing GrubHub ads: …deliberately crude post-South Park pieces reminiscent of Tao Lin’s visual art. (GrubHub’s website continues the aesthetic; see, for instance, the...
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Our Natural Bent for Destruction and the Rights to Failure
“Is there an art that is dangerous? Yes. It is that art which upsets the conditions of life.”–Charles Baudelaire. What are the conditions of life? Simply put: that which sustains it. Does art sustain...
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Marie Calloway, My Lover (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Just Love Tao...
I recently wrote an article about failure. The text received moderate attention. I was glad about that. I like attention. I also like pornography. I watch porn almost every night. I’m not joking. When...
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Newfound Footage from Stephen Elliott’s Shining Postscript and the Politics...
“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of my preconceptions about language and thought.”—Rob Horning, “Exhaustion of generic raw material”...
View ArticleGuest Post: New Fiction is Psychic Occupation by Suspended Reason
New Fiction is Psychic Occupation Fiction—or more generally, longform narrative text—has long been the handyman of culture, serving whatever functions are most urgently needed at a historical moment....
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