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In Great Company
by
Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
"You'll never be alone in hating me and you'll never be alone in fighting to keep me interested."
There, in that non-space of the pseudo-social, the About Me box demands the pouring of your identity representation for all to see, to judge, to imitate, to ignore. And what begins as a self-expression balloons in continuous polemic, as though the very words in that confined bo...more
There, in that non-space of the pseudo-social, the About Me box demands the pouring of your identity representation for all to see, to judge, to imitate, to ignore. And what begins as a self-expression balloons in continuous polemic, as though the very words in that confined bo...more
Paperback, 184 pages
Published
September 7th 2011
by Enigmatic Ink
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It was about time. Finally, a withering, blistering attack on the uncritical shibboleths of social media as given with acrimony and bile by a faceless narrator (are we not all part of the anonymous horde, despite our pixel-portraits?). For all the clap-happy and celebratory bacchanal of social media, here is an author courageous enough to plunge a sharp, hot blade into the popular balloon and shower us with the sour guts that truly make up social media networking.
Those who have read Seidlinger's...more
Those who have read Seidlinger's...more
Ever considered just how non-social social media really is, what with all the posturing simplified constructs frivolously interacting with other posturing simplified constructs? Well, "In Great Company" will get you to consider these things, how much less we actually significantly interact in the modern world of constant digital interconnection. Better still, it will do so through sentences shooting across the page like angry slam-poetry. The structure won't be like what someone hoping for a tra...more
Finished this book between rereading Beckett's shorter plays and Bernhard's Old Masters--fitting, I think.
Just made me want to go back to the pre facebook days...it was more creative, less self obsessed.
This book flowed - but it went so quickly my comprehension couldn't keep up. I may need to try this again later in life.
Is it possible that Seidlinger is ultimately talking to the artist in all of us and condemning, even mocking, our ability to tune out the clutter and just create?
More - http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2011/11...
More - http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2011/11...
Review will be forthcoming on the [PANK] Magazine blog... Stay tuned!!
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