May 2009
2 posts
Man, I miss David Foster Wallace.
I haven’t ever (that I can think of) read anything that better describes my outlook on “society at large” than David Foster Wallace’s brilliant essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction” [PDF link]. It’s long but totally worth it.
If you’re lazy, one of the best parts is reproduced below:
So then how have irony, irreverence, and...
This other thing I wrote
Hello everyone.
I wrote a paper for a class about Hipster Runoff but I put it on Tumblr instead of writing it like a paper and I hope you’ll read it because I sort of like it.
http://runningoff.tumblr.com/
Namechecks: Saussure, Lyotard, Jesse Thorn, Adbusters, John Seabrook, Lykke Li, Adorno, Pitchfork, Poster Boy, Barthes, Douglas Coupland, Mark Dery, Tao Lin, President Obama, and of...