Introduction: spoilers ahead -- There is yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer: inhumanism at the literary limit -- Pop culture today; or, plasticman, where are you? -- Imipolex S/Z -- Conclusion: updating as modernity; or, impermanent test dept.
Summary:
All of this information at our fingertips--and we might not need any of it. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo--a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, VileĢm Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
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