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An Object for Future Study

In the first part of this essay, Michael Doss traces the histories of thing theory and affect studies, which together can be understood as offshoots of a parent trend in the humanities: a demand for renewed methodologies that promise values such as equity, inclusion, decolonization, and political utility. The second part of this essay explores Rachel Kushner’s 2013 novel, The Flamethrowers, specifically its orientation toward the future, conveyed by the way it stages the futility of total self-renewal.

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Elena Ferrante's Run-ons
Ferrante's run-on sentences are the mechanism for producing a distinctive reality effect. They deny, at the micro-level, any logical cohesion or narrative arc or life story, even as they are part of a retrospective narration whose end is never really in doubt.
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Elena Ferrante's Run-ons

Her run-on sentences are the mechanism for producing a distinctive reality effect. They deny, at the micro-level, any logical cohesion or narrative arc or life story, even as they are part of a retrospective narration whose end is never really in doubt.

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NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0
Heard of National Novel Generating Month? Algorithms are being used to create texts not written by humans that are hauntingly beautiful.
The Long Now
In my first post on Arcade I’d like to respond to the important questions about time that Lee raises in his introduction to the contemporary novel colloquy.