binkymcqueen

Perhaps our relative comfort in believing that we can identify the proper border between fact and fiction in print stems from our long acquaintance with the landscape of the borderland. Books and their conventions are very old, and we are used to them. Despite the advent of the Internet, and despite the ways that books have changed over the years, the act of reading a printed book in 1999 is not profoundly different than it was in 1799.---Charles Rosenberg

what Baudrillard calls:
hyperreality - how technology has left humans floating about in virtual worlds and 'consensual hallucinations,' cut off from the real.

Radio Free Albemuth
"It is full of metaphors and concepts derived from electronics, communication, and information theory,
some of which Phil probably picked up from his stint in a record store. PKD conceived of the idea of a universal Matrix - something which Gibson was only beginning to hint at the end of his first book, Neuromancer -
an information "web" spanning entire galaxies and linking them in rational
harmony. The problem was that this "Network's" links were broken and
therefore the pure signal of the cosmos was being distorted on this planet
by the noise of the smothering Black Iron Prison."

"the inevitable result of art responding to the technological milieu that is producing postmodern culture at large.... --aesthetics can be seen as extending the
implications of the fabulist experiments of the 1960s using its highly stylized codes and conventions to produce textual meaning' in a manner as fully distinctive as the linguistic systems that give rise to meaning in a Shakespearean sonnet, a medieval morality fable, or a postmodernist story by Coover or Barth."




RED POCKET-THICK truly the only music to level me near dead in months....

Only time I hear a rustle is underneath skies of mud...