An Unspecific Dog
Artifacts of This Late Stage in History
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Author
Publication
2020 - punctum books, Earth, Milky Way, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
43,000 words, Guess
Page Count
172 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28354755M
- ISBN-139780998531816
- OCLC Control Number1183453302
- OCLC Control Number5f441303-4fc6-4a7d-951e-5b966a1cbd91
Classifications
- LCCPS3618.O8447 .U577 2017
Description
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.
Other Editions
- An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History
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