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Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, "VAS: An Opera in
Flatland"--a hybrid image-text novel--demonstrates how differing
ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history,
gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are.
A constantly surprising, "VAS" combines a variety of voices, from
journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices
meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerges from
their juxtapositions, harmonies, or discords. Utilizing a wide and
historical sweep of representations of the body--from pedigree
charts to genetic sequences--"VAS" is, finally, the story of
finding one's identity within the double helix of language and
lineage.
You've never experienced a novel like this. "TOC" is a multimedia
epic about time--the invention of the second, the beating of a
heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other
and to the world. An evocative fairy tale with a steampunk heart,
"TOC" is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film,
music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting. It is
the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a
woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well
as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery
waiting room: God's time. Theirs is an imagined history of people
who are fixed in the past, those who have no word for the future,
and those who live out their days oblivious to either. A new media
hybrid, "TOC" re-imagines what the book is, and can be. Produced as
a DVD for playback on personal computers (both Macs and PCs), "
TOC" retains the intimate, one-on-one experience that a reader can
have with a book even as it draws on the power of other art forms
to immerse readers in an altogether new multimedia story.
A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, "Once
Human" shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple
understanding.
A manga artist who is afraid that she herself is slipping into a
cartoon version of life, a lab technician who makes art with the
cloning technology she uses at work, a sociologist hunting for the
gene that makes some people want to take risks--these are some of
the characters that populate the stories in "Once Human." Exploring
the spaces where life is shaped by science and the technologies we
bring into being, Steve Tomasula's characters often find that the
harder they look at the world, the less they can say. The map that
emerges from these stories charts the territory of human longing
and the failure of poetry, science, and technology to explain the
"why" of the world, if not its "how."
A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed
relationship with nature Ascension is a novel about the end of
nature, or rather, the end of three “natures”: the time just
before Darwin changed the natural world; the 1980s, just as the
digital and genetic revolutions begin to replace “nature” with
“environment”; and today, a time when we have the ability to
manipulate nature at both the scale of the planet and at the
genome. The narrative follows three different biologists on the
brink of each of these cultural extinctions to explore how nature
occupies our imaginations and how our imaginations bring the
natural world, and our place in it, into existence. Ascension is a
story of how we continually remake the world and are in turn remade
by the new nature we’ve created. It is the story of humans
yearning to understand their families, themselves, and the world
they live in as it comes to a close, leaving them to anticipate
what will follow. Rich in visual depictions of the natural
world—from nineteenth century engraving and paintings to
twentieth century photography and twenty-first century
databases—Ascension uses the materials of three eras to drive
home our inability to escape nature, and the ways our fates are
irrevocably bound together even as our actions usher in an
end-time.
A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing-prose, poetry, and
hybrid-from its most significant practitioners and innovators A
variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and
hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream
traditions. Those phrases include experimental, conceptual,
avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream,
avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
writing, alternative, and anti- or new literature. Conceptualisms:
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid
Writing as Contemporary Art is the first major anthology of writing
that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives
in the early decades of the 21st century. Featuring over 100 pieces
from more than 90 authors, this anthology offers a plethora of
aesthetics and approaches to a wide variety subjects. Editor Steve
Tomasula has gathered poems, prose, and hybrid pieces that all
challenge our understanding of what literature means. Intended as a
collection of the most exciting and bold literary work being made
today, Tomasula has put a spotlight on the many possibilities
available to writers and readers wishing for a glimpse of
literature's future. Readers will recognize authors who have shaped
contemporary writing, as among them Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein,
Jonathan Safran Foer, Shelley Jackson, Nathaniel Mackey, David
Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. Even seasoned readers will
find authors, and responses to the canon, not yet encountered.
Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and
scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature
can live. The text features headnotes to chapters on themes such as
sound writing, electronic literature, found text, and other forms,
offering accessible introductions for readers new to this work. An
online companion presents statements about the work and biographies
of the authors in addition to audio, video, and electronic writing
that can't be presented in print. Visit www.conceptualisms.info to
read more.
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