An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History Joshua Rothes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothes, Joshua, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century.

American fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 164 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2017

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"A nationwide survey conducted by an institute for philosophical research has determined that nihilists, on the whole, have good intentions." In An Unspecific Dog, Joshua Rothes collects 150 short texts as fables for our time, a veritable catalog of agnotology, a series of situations and propositions that revel in the dark irony at the root of our early-twenty-first-century existence. "A man reads the terms and conditions and finds that he has no secrets, while scientists promise that, 'with improvements to fMRI technology, what matters to us will become more clear'." The subjects of these texts are caught between vocabularies, between contingency and certainty, the interim in which certain kind of ironic vitality exists, where tragedy and humor are equally likely and often deeply entangled. Rothes reminds us that language acts as a mirror for human experience, in that through it we can never really see the backs of our own heads.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1183453302

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access