Download or read book Monarch written by Candice Wuehle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Candice Wuehle's irresistibly weird debut novel Monarch is the kind of book that you want to start reading again immediately after turning the last page—not just to trace the conspiracy at its heart, but to appreciate how its kaleidoscope of beauty pageants, Y2K anxieties, famous dead girls, and deep state machinations synthesizes into an exploration of what makes up a self . . . Poetic, haunting."—Kristen Martin, NPR After waking up with a strange taste in her mouth and mysterious bruises, former child pageant star Jessica Clink unwittingly begins an investigation into a nefarious deep state underworld. Equipped with the eccentric education of her father, Dr. Clink (a professor of Boredom Studies and the founder of an elite study group known as the Devil’s Workshop), Jessica uncovers a disquieting connection between her former life as a beauty queen and an offshoot of Project MKUltra known as MONARCH. As Jessica moves closer to the truth, she begins to suspect the involvement of everyone around her, including her own mother, Grethe (a Norwegian pageant queen turned occult American wellness guru for suburban housewives). With the help of Christine (her black-lipsticked riot grrrl babysitter and confidante), Jessica sets out to take down Project MONARCH. More importantly, she must discover if her first love, fellow teen queen Veronica Marshall, was genuine or yet another deep state plant. Merging iconic true crime stories of the ’90s (Lorena Bobbitt, Nicole Brown Simpson, and JonBenét Ramsey) with theories of human consciousness, folklore, and a perennial cultural fixation with dead girls, MONARCH questions the shadow sides of self-concept: Who are you if you don’t know yourself?

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Download or read book Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede written by Mike Corrao and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mike Corrao's instant cult-classic GUT TEXT, the reader observes the text caught in the physical objectness of a book as it slowly becomes a living organism: self-conscious, feeling pain, fear, and desire. RITUALS PERFORMED IN THE ABSENCE OF GANYMEDE takes the text beyond the physical, where the reader and text enter the search for a body that can contain you both.

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Download or read book Philosophy of the Sky written by Evan Isoline and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PHILOSOPHY OF THE SKY is not a work of philosophy in an academic or traditional sense. It is, however, highly philosophical, totemic, and personal. In the book, Evan uses the sky as an abstract philosophical concept, like a cinematic backdrop, to explore conceptual associations between selfhood, objecthood, the body, apocalypticism, masculinity, masturbation, and self-destruction. The text, symbol, and glyph are partially augmented by chance cut-up processes such as language translators, Markov chain generators, and AI natural language generators for the purpose of eliminating narrative preconception, discovering subconscious visual realms, and spotlighting a point of tension between natural and artificial aesthetic forms. The formatting of text becomes an important cinematographic framing tool.

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Download or read book Collected Voices in the Expanded Field written by Mike Corrao and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field.

Download or read book Children of the New Flesh written by Chris Kelso and published by 11:11 Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a series of short films that Cronenberg directed in the 1960s and 70s, many of which have rarely been seen, this book considers the legacy of these works in their own right, as well as their relationship to future masterpieces like Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, and eXistenZ. Much more than a work of tribute, Children of the New Flesh is a meditation on the nature of influence itself. It teases out the undercurrents in Cronenberg's films, obsessed as they are with secret signals, sinister experiments, and mental viruses, and shows how these ideas resonate in our own paranoid, sickened, hyper-networked times. Featuring original fiction and essays from luminaries such as Brian Evenson, Blake Butler, Michael Cisco, Graham Rae, Joe Koch, Gary J. Shipley, Tobias Carroll, and Charlene Elsby, and interviews with figures such as Kathe Koja, Patrick McGrath, Tim Lucas, and Bruce Wagner-not to mention an exclusive interview with Cronenberg himself-this book is at once a study and a living example of the singular power of hybrid forms. It's an invitation to seek undead materials in the dark recesses of the past, and to use them as a means of tuning into the freakish wavelengths of the present. "CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH IS A MUST-READ FOR FILM FANATICS AND FANS OF DAVID CRONENBERG. EDITED BY CHRIS KELSO AND DAVID LEO RICE, THIS COLLECTION EXPLORES THE DARK PERIPHERIES OF CRONENBERG'S INFLUENCE AND EARLY WORK, EXAMINING A WORLD OF STRANGENESS AND MYSTERY." - BRANDON HOBSON, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF THE REMOVED "THE LIVING LEGEND OF ECCENTRIC CINEMA BEGETS WEIRD NEW PROGENY IN CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH" - RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE "DO NOT OVEREMPHASIZE CRONENBERG'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY; THAT DOES A DISSERVICE TO HIS DEEP, ABIDING, PASSIONATE INTEREST IN THE ENERGY BODY, THE ETHEREAL BODY, THE BODY DOUBLE, THE COSMIC BODY. IN THE END, HE IS A CONSUMMATE PHILOSOPHER OF THE SPIRIT." - BRUCE WAGNER, AUTHOR OF DEAD STARS, MAPS TO THE STARS, AND THE MARVEL UNIVERSE

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Download or read book Gut Text written by Mike Corrao and published by 11:11 Press LLC. This book was released on 2019 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are holding a living organism. Gut Text feels fear, pain, and desire. Within, you will follow four distinct personas as they form on the page, each seeking to transcend the limitations of their existence as they speak to you directly. In his newest release, Mike Corrao has created a challenging and unsettling exploration of identity, and the ways we see it manifest in the physical world. Each persona carries with it a similar desire, but a different means of striving towards it. Slowly, the text begins to move, begins to change, correct its mistakes, and adjust to its restrictive ontology. Gut Text is not only alive, it is growing and learning. Witness the text creating itself, a parthenogenetic conception.

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