MY CORPSE INSIDE Format: PB - PAPERBACK

A provocative and meticulously structured exploration of identity, language, and the body, My Corpse Inside exposes the thin and increasingly blurry line between the physical and the digital, between the living and the dead. Wes Jamison contends with the complex and disturbing relationship of sexuality and violence through a torrent of virtual horrors―shock sites, hookup apps, beheading videos, and creepshots―as well as through Jamison’s own experiences of being surveilled and exploited online. Inspired by Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s master horror film Kairo, which portrays ghosts overflowing into our reality through the internet, this fragmented book-length essay clarifies Julia Kristeva’s infamously esoteric theory of abjection and subjectivity and updates it for today’s constant virtuality. My Corpse Inside is a disquieting work that asks readers to confront the violence, fetish, horror, and loneliness inherent in our eternal connectivity.

WES JAMISON is an assistant professor of English at Defiance College. They were awarded the 2021 Quill Prose Award for their essay collection, Carrion, and their essay and Melancholia was selected as a winner of Essay Press's Chapbook Contest. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and selected as Notables in Best American Essays. Their work also appears in DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, After the Art, and elsewhere. Jamison currently lives in the Midwest with their partner and cat.