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Friday, July 8, 2016

Jeff VanderMeer on Me

Really nice piece on Hyperobjects.

2 comments:

  1. So mellifluous 'twas wordsmithed by dwarves in Aasgard for sure and not the Marvel Comix sort

    For 30 years there has been a nascent but un-comprehending comprehensibility of something akin and akimbo to Hyperobjects in American letters as "the airborne toxic event" (in H terms 'ungalublischelueftische-giftischese-ereignis'?) but the ability of the hyperobjects concept to expand thinking and comprehension, to world the unworldy, and allow us to exist inside a hyperobject or multiple ones is so much more

    We like Van der Meer's (by the water in nomen est omen nomenclature) and TM but I also invoke a bit of parody:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_NpdAy3WY

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  2. Could Donald Trump be considered an Hyperobject? Or Trumpism?

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