
Disposable Thought
Steven T. Bramble(Author)
Zq-287 Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
378 pages
978-1-7325766-1-2 (ISBN)
Description
Cole Scott-Knox-Under, an idealistic technophobe purposefully relegating himself to a minimum-wage fast food job, suddenly notices he is suffering from a strange neurosis: inanimate objects appear to be speaking to him, and the symptoms are worsening.
Hallucinations of lethal drink lids, personified congratulations balloons, desperate old VHS tapes, buried-alive beepers, chatty styrofoam cups, and a holocaust of waste threaten to sever him from his family, friends and job. Or are they hallucinations at all?
This final installment of a triptych of novels about technology and madness sends characters both animate and inanimate on a sweeping adventure into neurosis, metaphysics, drinking, garbage, love, crazed artists and entrepreneurs, powerful furniture magnates, hyperbolic intellectuals, family politics, world revolution, and, eventually, into South Dakota.
A weird dark comedy examining one of the foundational pieces of U.S. modernity and crisis-disposability, in all its concrete and abstract forms.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
475 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7325766-1-2 (9781732576612)
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Steven T. Bramble was born in 1986 in Pueblo, CO. He is the author of the Psychology of Technology trilogy (Affliction Included, Grid City Overload, Disposable Thought), a thematically-connected series of novels that questions the implications of modernity. He is a co-founder of ZQ-287 Press and lives in Long Beach, CA.