Reviews
" Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish is bursting with ideas; it is relentlessly curious, zeroing in on topics including David Lynch, soccer virtuoso Zinedine Zidane, 'the time of fiction,' On Kawara, and the 'displacement' that occurs when language meets weather. It encourages you to examine contradictions and to consider that art and life and literature are all part of a sticky web that retains traces of everything. Most of all, it encourages you to look more closely." --Gabe Habash, Publishers Weekly (starred review) "McCarthy's fiction and nonfiction aim to skewer an ideology of authenticity that is fed and watered by a certain humanist conception of literature." --Simon Critchley "McCarthy's crisp, clean prose is stimulating, his concepts original and his visual imagery powerful." --Layla Sanai, The Independent, "McCarthy's fiction and nonfiction aim to skewer an ideology of authenticity that is fed and watered by a certain humanist conception of literature." --Simon Critchley "McCarthy's crisp, clean prose is stimulating, his concepts original and his visual imagery powerful." --Layla Sanai, The Independent
Table of Content
Provisional Table of Contents 1 18 Semiconnected Thoughts on Michel de Certeau, On Kawara, Fly Fishing, and Various Other Things 13 From Feedback to Reflux: Kafka's Cybernetics of Revolt 23 Get ℜ or, What Jellyfish Have to Tell Us About Literature 35 The Prosthetic Imagination of David Lynch 43 On Dodgem Jockeys: A Suggested Alternative Career for Writers 45 Meteomedia, or Why London's Weather is in the Middle of Everything 56 Nothing Will Have Taken Place Except The Place 71 Recessional - or, the Time of the Hammer 87 Richter Article 94 Stabbing the Olive 106 The Geometry of the Pressant 117 On Balls and Planes: An Introduction to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern 135 Kool Thing, or Why I Want to Fuck Patty Hearst 139 Why Ulysses Matters
