mia wolff (b. 1951, usa)

https://www.lauracheckoway.com/wolffland Wolffland – Laura Checkoway’s film on Mia Wolff. Mia Wolff is the artist who illustrated Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York City (1999), a book collaboration with science fiction grandmaster Samuel R. Delany.

fictocriticism – by serubiri moses

The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) is thrilled to announce the publication of Judith Namala: A Novella. Its release marks writer and curator Serubiri Moses’s fiction debut and the launch of a new CARA publication series, Practice. Judith Namala is an experiment in adaptation, storytelling, and translation as fictocriticism. 

Mckee notes

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. Consider Literary and story talent are not only distinctively different but are unrelated, for stories do not need to be written to be told. The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. Story talent …

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joan didion exercise

Chanakya Vyas told me about Joan Didion exercise. In order to understand how to practice it, I asked Gemini, “hi! please advise me on the joan didion exercise of copying great writers using handwriting. where can i find resources on that please.” GEMINI SAID: Joan Didion famously taught herself to write, in part, by retyping …

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a fake kantian in jesse armstrong’s mountainhead

hi! there is a reference to immanuel kant’s categorical imperative in jesse armstrong’s mountainhead. was the reference philosophically correct, uttered by the character played by steve carrel. please elucidate. ChatGPT said: In Mountainhead, Randall Garrett—Steve Carell’s character—makes a dramatic declaration: “I take Kant really f‑ing seriously!” This is triggered when his understanding of categorical morality is …

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John Schad as a Theory fiction writer!

ChatGPT said… Delighted you asked—John Schad is one of the most distinctive practitioners of what we might call literary-critical theory fiction in the UK. His work occupies a liminal space between criticism, fiction, memoir, and performance, making it a rich site for thinking through the potentials of theory fiction—especially in relation to modernism, deconstruction, and …

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