The Blot - Softcover

Lethem, Jonathan; Rickels, Laurence A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990573370 ISBN 13: 9780990573371

Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press, 2016

Synopsis

In this supplement to Jonathan Lethem's novel A Gambler's Anatomy, the renowned novelist engages in a concerted transatlantic dialogue with cult theorist Laurence A. Rickels, exploring the vicissitudes of popular culture and the profound influence of Philip K. Dick on their respective lines of flight. Foregrounding the introjections between California and Germany, they address a range of ideas, subjects and figures, from B-movies, science fiction, Wile E. Coyote and the Devil to trauma theory, Freud, Hitchcock and German Expressionism. Animating their zone of interrogation is the "blot"--an algorithm of innuendo, an uncanny defamiliarization of reality and "truth" wherein the trajectories of meaning, desire and perception fold into themselves like an origami in flames.

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About the Author

Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times-bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in the New Yorker, Harper`s, Rolling Stone, Esquire and the New York Times, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990573370
• ISBN 13: 9780990573371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88