Starts off quite strong, solid analysis of contemporary web practices - got lost a bit in the deeper theoretical parts at the end.
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Things I like to read - saxophone * black lit * sci-fi * comics * pomo * theory
Languages I read in - English * Français
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41% complete! Carnivalesque has read 5 of 12 books.
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Carnivalesque reviewed After the Internet by Tiziana Terranova
Carnivalesque finished reading After the Internet by Tiziana Terranova
Carnivalesque finished reading Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
Carnivalesque rated Jagannath: 5 stars

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.
A …
Carnivalesque finished reading We want everything by Nanni Balestrini
Carnivalesque reviewed We want everything by Nanni Balestrini
Carnivalesque replied to astralstreeting's status
@astralstreeting haha I slogged through like 80% of that trilogy in my youth
Carnivalesque replied to uhhuhthem's status
@uhhuhthem Love this series quite a bit!
Carnivalesque finished reading Elite Capture by Olufemi O. Taiwo
An interest look at the way standpoint theory and deference politics get distorted with some thoughts on how to build alternative solidarities and dismantle elite spaces. This book is quite good and has a bunch of interesting historical asides that I wasn't expecting.
Carnivalesque finished reading Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green

Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green
Xanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and academia, spitting out pieces that …
Carnivalesque reviewed Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green
Carnivalesque rated Children of Ruin: 4 stars

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands …
Carnivalesque finished reading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands …
Carnivalesque finished reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I kept bouncing off this novel. I was intrigued but not gripped until the story truly started to click about a third of the way through and I could not put it down! Susanna Clarke publishes books very infrequently but 2 of her 3 are just fantastic accomplishments (I haven't read the third).