Books - Material Object, Idealist Content

A discussion of what we mean by the noun 'book'. How it works, what its operating system is, how it skates both poles of the materialism/idealism divide beloved of phenomenology and how my novel "The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" explores all of this.
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[@bluewordsme2]

ps. I DO LOVE YOUR NOVEL...worth staying up reading.....

[@annakoyfman]

Thank you, it was very interesting!!❤

[@bbbartolo]

Re: I love novels and stories "in the form of..." as with your "important Artifacts..." example. Making me wonder if you've heard of "Everything Abridged," by Dennard Dayle, which came out last year. It includes a kind of update of the Devil's Dictionary, but also a short story in the form of successive entries on a credit card statement, among other tours-de-force. He's a real wit who writes "casuals" for the New Yorker

[@MarcNash]

oh no I haven't come across him. Sounds interesting, thanks for the recommendation

[@authorleetee]

Enjoyed this, Marc, and your book's waiting in my C\S cart.

[@MarcNash]

Cheers Lee!

[@bluewordsme2]

lovely vid...Marc, have you ever read Handke's "The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld / Die Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt"?.....the first sentence is one of the greatest ever. I will try to paraphrase...."Have you ever awoken from dreams knowing you killed someone and then spent the rest of the waking day hiding that fact from someone'........i think about this often, especially as a writer, who thinks about WHY people, readers and writers alike (especially in poetry) cling to notions of form as what was passed down: a) a novel should have a narrative and identifiable charcters/movment/ephiphany and 'be about something' (to all of these, i retort WHY), b) 'collection of poems', should have a theme or a story or a a 'narrative' or 'speaker' a 'voice', an unifying principle (why why) ..........i read the Gass book long ago, and was mesmerized..., i tend to get bored very very quickly with narrative in a 'novel' or 'characters' or 'memoir' as retelling of a life (how is this every possible) or a 'biographical' book....i remember seeing 6 Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello and then Beckett and just being thilled....i just want language that inspires or tickles..give me the inside of the outside world....and us.....why i love sebald and markson and calvino or kafka or celan or john ashbery...so i believe in idealist content, or the imagined, language that imagines the world and not necessarily signifies the material world, or even the etymological meaning...which is why i love invented language...why i use words that come from my dream, or are invented by my students...especially their grammatical and lexical 'errors'...i often am obsessed with words that have strong materialistic content/signification: example colors.....blue grass for example, a black sky at noon, etc...something that excites my head...which is why, for example, i think you will love the poetry, especially the prose poems, of John Ashbery...anyway, we'll discuss more in 2 weeks...and i would love MORE of these, than just reviews....fabulous discussiong,....bb

[@MarcNash]

'More of these' rather depends on further nigh time persecutions. Colours are of course complete idealisms, as many cultures don't have a word for certain colours and therefore that colour does not exist for them. They have different colour spectrums to us.

[@bluewordsme2]

@@MarcNash ps, i've mailed one of my copies of Death of the Author to Matt Bucher this week....

[@vytautasbaipsys]

give it a try, yoga nidra, at moments like this

[@BookishTexan]

I will not tolerate Mountainerism! Consider yourself cancelled, called out, put on notice, Sis, sketch, etc! I’m disappointed to learn you don’t use sticky notes. Thanks for explaining.

[@MarcNash]

I don't even use planning Brian! Victory to the pantser artists!