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i'll probably order it also. I just finished the original. It doesn't cost much at Amazon. I doubt many English readers are aware of it as this is the first translation and it was published in 2003: also worth checking out: Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale The Surrealist Parade nd this...

it's somewhere between a re-write and a translation. Not sure if you've read the original Gothic novel, but it is about a monk who develops a sexual obsession with one of his students (a young girl pretending to be an apprentice monk) who torments/seduces him until he finally rapes her. As it...

i told a friend sometime in July i think that Electric Feel was going to be the summer jam/anthem. it had all the markings. i really like it, though it gets kind of old after a repeated listenings. but i kind of soured on MGMT b/c one of their songs was used in the film 21, which created some...

well latex is fantastic - esp latex catsuits. but i just don't get mylar and industrial manufacturing materials and shit like that.

i actually like psytrance music, it's a guilty pleasure. really you don't know what it's all about until you've listened to Astral Projection or Infected Mushroom while tripping on ayahuasca. It stops being music and becomes this freaky environmental/epidermal surround. but yeah i'm not sure how...

the style is much different, closer to death metal really. but i like it, it seems more sincere to me, probably because it's a bad impersonation of the original. ofc "cyberspace" not cyberpunk... I think Bethke wrote a short story with the word "cyberpunk" in the title but I'm not sure if he...

i think anything that uses CRT technology causes the shift from left to right brain, and beta to alpha brain waves, because of the hypnotic effect of the flashing lights. I think Eric McLuhan (or someone with the McLuhan Institute) did experiments that proved this back in the 70's, and there...

i hope this is true :D i think this is called the triune (bird-mammal-lizard) model, and it was either invented or endorsed by Carl Sagan. the idea seems to be that these 'brains' work independently, but i'm not sure if those divisions are clean. i would guess that all our lizard brain impulses...

the thrust of the second group of points you list there, which was in my response, was that Land's real motivation for his disparaging remarks about academia (which i believe you brought up) and art (and the left for that matter: anyone against the Iraq war, globalization, conservatism, etc.)...

is this the first time an author has single handedly spawned a subculture? it's the only example i can think of since gibson coined "cyberpunk" (1984) - it seems like every cultural movement since at least punk has spread globally over time. punk had more life in japan in the past decade than...

Des Esseintes ( i think that's his name) is one of my favorite lit figures. He's kind of the first literary dandy, kind of like de Quincey or the French aristocrat who wrote the first book about dandyism (hard name to recall). That whole fin-de-siecle idea of destroying yourself with excess has...

kind of- it's from his unpublished essays on Baudelaire and Edgar Alan Poe. They were written for the Arcades Project iirc, then altered and submitted to the Frankfurt School, which refused to publish them. Baudelaire = the flaneur, Poe = the detective. The essays are excellent. Benjamin imo is...

where does modernism begin exactly? going by Walter Benjamin's definition (of modernism as a neural shock-response to urbanization), it starts with Baudelaire (early 1800's), passes to Rimbaud, Lautreamont, and the Symbolists (mid-late 19th C), then Jarry and the Decadents (Mirbaud, Huysmans...

i wonder if he's referring to Sirius, or the "sun behind the sun" according to Kenneth Grant. Sirius is also important in Freemasonry, and it is frequently referenced in popular culture (Sirius Satellite Radio, Philip K. Dick, Stockhausen, Robert Anton Wilson, David Bowie).

the Futurists influenced fascism, which was originally a liberal/corporatist party with populist psych warfare tactics. apologies if my wording was imprecise - Marinetti was only briefly affiliated with fascism, in 1919, but broke with Mussolini way before WWI. They didn't influence the Nazis in...

no according to his writings on Hyperstition. Not sure if he is trying to be ironic or what. It seems like he started from a Deleuzian perspective, kind of deconstructive politics based on nomadology and war machines, then went far to the right (brazen support for the Iraq war, denouncing...

The "Incarnations" story (DFW) was pretty interesting actually. That's a hard subject to broach to say the least. Wallace's tone is very minimalist, really not melancholy enough for the subject matter. But it generates a weird kind of pathos and fascination. Then again, I wouldn't recommend it...

if you look at inner cities, in the states at least, the crime boss is a hero. i think it has to do with ressentiment (sp), or the master-slave dialectic. instead of a proleterian revolt you see groups form in impoverished neighborhoods who act as an exception to the market. it's a working class...

heh that's what happens when you drink half a bottle of whiskey, try (unsuccessfully) to break off a relationship with an old friend, then go online to vent your frustration. my apologies. but the whole idea of something like a posthuman fascism kind of fascinates me, as silly and juvenile as it...

i should add, i would support any form of fascism - even the most egregious, murderous brand of fascism - controlled by the "intellegentsia," or whatever term you want to use. I guess I've fallen prey to the same "bad" ideology as Ezra Pound. Nazism wasn't modernist by any means (the "degenerate...