Induced Coma
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989239160 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Jaffe's writing has been translated widely, most recently in Romania, Turkey, France, Japan, Italy, and Cuba. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International. Harold Jaffe is the author of 22 volumes of fiction, docufiction, and non-fiction, including Revolutionary Brain; OTHELLO BLUES (JEF Books, 2014); PARIS 60 (JEF Books, 2013); OD: DOCUFICTIONS (JEF Books, 2012); Induced Coma; Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories;
""TWITTERVERSE" WRITING AS ART FORM AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY" according to Kuemmel. People talk about the glib, self-referential writing which populates the "Twitterverse," but Harold Jaffe's profound and moving book, INDUCED COMA, elevates the brief-entry-format (typically 50 words or less) to an art form, worthy of detailed contemplation. Jaffe's subject matter is no less than the scope of our current, human experience; however, he sections his anecdotes and commentaries such that the reader--piece-by-piece and moment-by-moment--must think deeply about current events and the impact of our "humanity" on the physical and psychic state of our planet. Jaffe's "mini-texts," of which the book is composed, a. "Essential reading" according to KM Seehaus. Sharp and fast: That's what readers expect from Harold Jaffe's docufiction. This latest volume doesn't disappoint as it examines the ongoing global crisis, abuse of animals and the plight of marginalized people. Despite the heavy subject matter, Jaffe's trademark humor and wit are on display as he discusses subjects as varied as Michael Jackson's death and technology run amok.. "Compression and Essence" according to Tyrone K. Nagai. For admirers of Jaffe’s 2010 docufiction, Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories, this “semi-sequel” continues in the same vein by appropriating and treating news stories, scientific studies, film history, literary anecdotes, and other texts to describe a wide arc of cultural plot points that map the zeitgeist through humor, tragedy, shock, banality, sublimity, and the surreal. Jaffe’s ability to compress or distill a story into its essence reveals the absurdity and alienation created by political, economic, and environmental injustices festering within a society obsessed by technological pleasure and
Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away so that the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display. INDUCED COMA covers an extraordinary range of subjects-activist art, global warming, revolution, the entertainment industry, and the freakishly banal happenings of our day-to-day lives-all of which the author deconstructs to expose their ideological subtexts in uncanny ways. Satirical, critical, tragic and ruminative, Jaffe works every register and creates a bricolage that turns mass media inside-out.. In INDUCED COMA, he furthers the project initiated in ANTI-TWITTER, a pastiche of 50-word stories based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Known for his unique style of "docufiction" and "literary terrorism," Harold Jaffe has made a career out of exposing the latent realities embedded in our media-saturated consciousness
. About the Author Harold Jaffe is the author of 22 volumes of fiction, docufiction, and non-fiction, including Revolutionary Brain; OTHELLO BLUES (JEF Books, 2014); PARIS 60 (JEF Books, 2013); OD: DOCUFICTIONS (JEF Books, 2012); Induced Coma; Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories; Jesus Coyote; 15 Serial Killers; Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture; Terror-dot-Gov; Straight Razor; Sex for the Millennium; EROS ANTI-EROS (City Lights Publishers, 1990); False Positive; Beasts; Mourning Crazy Horse; Madonna & Other Spectacles; and Dos Indios. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International. Jaffe's writing has been translated widely, most recently in Romania, Turkey, France, Japan, Italy, and Cuba