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On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE In the marvelous third installment of Balle’s “astonishing” (The Washington Post) septology, Tara’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that “it is autumn, but that we’re not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn’t mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see.” Where Book I and II focused on a single woman’s involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, Book III brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality. And then of course, what of Tara’s husband Thomas, still sitting alone day after day, entirely unawares, in their house in Clarion-sous-Bois, waiting for his wife to return? Blending poetry and philosophical inquiry with rich reflections on our discombobulating times, Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume asks us to consider: What is a single person’s responsibility to humanity and to the preservation of this world?
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Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction
An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre acts as a defense in the navigation of propagated falsehoods and the denial of firmly established scientific evidence.Speculative fiction thrives on the creation of counterworlds that challenge status quo assumptions about what is possible – but it calls for a willing suspension of disbelief from the first page. In the face of conspiracy theories, election fraud claims, holocaust and climate change denials and vaccine resistance running roughshod over previously established fact, reality has seen lies advanced and accepted as truth on a massive scale. Trapped as we are in this current moment, the critical potential of speculative fiction is all the more important as it enables us to sidestep the barriers to dialogue raised by dogmatism and to imagine possibilities that can help us “escape” from fantastic right-wing demagoguery as well as the effects of normalizing the unconscionable and the disastrous.In this optimistic appraisal of speculative fiction, John Rieder argues that the genre cannot carry the load by itself but must be supplemented by professional criticism and pedagogy within the institutional settings of secondary and higher education. Through readings of fiction by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone How to Lose the Time War, N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy, China Miéville’s The City and the City alongside works by Minsoo Kang, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, and Rivers Solomon, Truth, Lies and Speculation illuminates how left-leaning intellectuals throughout the world can walk the line between despair at the apparent impotence of truth and outrage at the manifest power of lies.
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150,000 Trees
When Flight 93 crashed in that Pennsylvania field—amidst unfolding tragedy in New York City and Washington D.C.—America grieved alongside those who had lost family and friends. But long before 9/11, that land had been wounded too, lush forests becoming mines before becoming empty fields struggling to thrive. As the community began to plan and build a memorial, they focused on remembrance and growth. Trees, they thought, would help the people root to the past but grow towards the light. And every year people planted. Discover the inspirational story of the programme (Plant a Tree at Flight 93) that restored the strip-mined land surrounding the national memorial in the years following 9/11. Through lyrical prose and lush art, 150,000 Trees illuminates the hope and empathy of the American people and shows the power of individuals to make a difference.Releasing in time for the 25th anniversary of 9/11
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Eschaton II Sequence
Continuing in the tradition of his Dark Radical Poetics, this sequel to the eschaton sequence sees the author continue a journey begun and assumedly ended with the conclusion of that sequence. Having survived an existential, moral, creative and mental crisis, the author re-examines his position with respect to Schopenhauerian/Nietzschean philosophy. Post-structuralism and suicide, language, communique, self-harm and scarification, remain topics of calmer interest, as the author also attempts to come to terms with an interpretation of Being. Written according to a strict structural schema, in a studiously leaner aphoristic style, this more mature companion piece to the eschaton sequence has, as before, much to offer in the way of incidental wisdom and worldly insights and asides. A deep expressionistic rendering of the course of one man, one book or one locus of a being's thinking, this modest volume will surely entertain, pursuing clarity in beauty, and also intellectually stimulate the reader and edify.
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the collective imagination; each generation rediscovers the work for itself and makes it its own. Honing in on the significance of the symphony in contemporary culture, this book establishes a dialog between Beethoven's world and ours, marked by the earthshattering events of 1789 and of 1989. In particular, this book outlines what is special about the Ninth in millennial culture. In the present day, music is encoded not only as score but also as digital technology. We encounter Beethoven 9 flashmobs, digitally reconstructed concert halls, globally synchonized performances, and other time-bending procedures. The digital artwork 9 Beet Stretch even presents the Ninth at glacial speed over twenty-four hours, challenges our understanding of the symphony, and encourages us to confront the temporal dimension of Beethoven's music. In the digital age, the Ninth emerges as a musical work that is recomposed and reshaped-and that is robust enough to live up to such treatment-continually adapting to a changing world with changing media.
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