Machine generated contents note: vii. The professor opens. Query: How do I know when my iBook has ended? -- Journal for the Study of the Signs of the Apocalypse -- Devotional: Hastings & Princess -- Query: How do I resume? Can I use emoji in business emails? -- The rare books cataloguer: A day in the life -- Water and other volatiles -- Query: I have to write a paper on Gilgamesh? What is a Gilgamesh? -- Postdiluvian baggage -- Bible salesman -- Hey! Fever -- QUERY: When I archive an email where does it go? -- Spend some time with the word: tender -- Culmination Card: The Emperor -- QUERY: How big is the data? Can I compress losslessly? -- Crimes of the century: A CNN interpretation -- i. Drowning -- ii. Exchange student -- iii. Assassination attempt -- iv. Oklahoma -- v. The Branch -- Politics -- begotten.com -- QUERY: Is it true that I can get any book online? -- 2. Retrospective Of The North In Gold -- Retrospective of the North in gold -- Lines for the flat earth fall -- Vancouvering -- Toronto -- A New York poem -- Crepuscule: Basic bitch variations -- First forays towards fieldwork of colour -- Ornithology -- Flat earth in colour: An anti ghazal -- First-time listener: A how-to guide -- 3. Lost Time -- i. Trigger warnings/'somewhere outside the realm' -- ii. `one hears nothing when one listens for the first time' -- iii. Sodom suburban -- iv. `possible transformations during later childhood' -- v. `signs traced through invisible ink behind her sad, submissive eyes' -- vi. `I had merely the illusion of thinking a departure' -- vii. Vous -- The professor opens.
Summary:
"First-Time Listener explores the ramped up 21st century digitalization of the social world, while reaching back to the most ancient of manuscript cultures. In Part 1, all is queried: Gilgamesh, God, the Cloud, the Bible, Bob Dylan, technologies of the book, and CNN's Crimes of the Century. Part 2, Retrospective of the North in Gold, turns contemplative, reading the colours and astrological signs of the digital and urban 21st century worlds. The book concludes with Lost Time, an ambitious long poem that maps Zilm's girlhood in Surrey--located on the south bank of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver--onto Proust's Combray, exploring cracks in the intersections of class, sex, gender, and language."-- Provided by publisher.
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