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Conferences
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
Scott F. Parker's Rain Taxi piece, Notes from Footnotes: New Directions in David Foster Wallace Studies is a comprehensive overview that successfully catches the energy present at the conference I attended in NY last year. Considering the depth and breadth of material covered in one day it does do a pretty good job of getting across the energy in the room during a very busy day. I have to disagree with Parker that session 2 could be seen as a low point of the day, Taveira and Hering's were a couple of my fave papers for the day... maybe I'm more visual. (Thanks, Judd)
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DFW Biography
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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I've been lucky enough to receive a galley of David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace - I am stunned at the content. 300 pages of transcripts from 5 days of recorded conversations spent on the road with DFW on the last leg of his IJ tour. David lipsky inserts asides, thoughts, responses, and questions in a way that would not have been possible in the original piece for which this all took place. I can't wait to get home and keep reading. It is personal, and real, and moving - and best of all - it is David Foster Wallace speaking about David Foster Wallace. I am so sad he is gone. (Pre-order from Amazon) Responding to redsock's comment below: It isn't simply a straight transcription of the tapes - it's better than that. There's a neat introductory piece, and David Lipsky's thoughts and observations appear throughout the text without disrupting the conversations. | | This item includes 5 comments |
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Infinite Jest
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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Organiser Sam Ekwurtzel speaks about some of the multimedia aspects of the show: So all of the films in the show are for the most part short loops, maybe five to ten minute films. All of the films are played from a column of twenty-three VCRs sending out twenty-three video signals that go into a switcher and output into a large monitor and projector. So the audience is able to change what they’re seeing by turning it up. It’s sort of like an old analog television. You know how there’s that knob, you change the channel, you can still turn it infinitely so it loops on itself. It sounds super interesting. If the fantods readers that said they were attending would like to put together some thoughts on the exhibition I'll post them here.
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Critical Analysis
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
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The article argues that the best way to understand DFW's work is through Nietzsche's concept of oblivion, which is our consciousness's screening device. Joshua uses this concept to account for the sadness in DFW's literary journalism, which makes for a particularly interesting article due to the more common focus on the humour in his non-fiction. Well worth your time. | | No comments for this item |
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