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More fun and games with the postmodern condition.

  1. Theodore Roszak's Head in a Duffel Bag
    (A satirical rebuttal to The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking, by Theodore Roszak)
  2. Heinrich's Paralysis
    (A passage from Don DeLillo's White Noise, and comments concerning the arbitrariness of meaning, its linguistic determinants, and the danger of "Master Ideas") 

Bibliography for These Two Projects


DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.

Holtzman, Steven R. Digital Mantras: The Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1994.


Roszak, Theodore. The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.



Dali clock "sampled" from Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory.