[spectre] James Joyce Turning Japanese I Really Think So

[Kenji Siratori]

James Joyce Turning Japanese I Really Think So

In the wake of Joyce, and then the acceleration of modernity into the
post-modern (via Burroughs) come hyper-hip 21st century authors like Kenji
Siratori.

Siratori defies rational critique - perhaps almost demands it be redefined
in order to come to terms with him - so bizarre, rapid-fire and insistent is
his verbal spillage. Terminologies, pathologies and technologies let rip in
a repetitive and terrifying reading experience: the book as threat.

Headcode the book - punning on "head cold" - is a virus, one set to page,
but very much able to disturb inscription by its very intrusive presence.
With a late logic of cyber-decline (into the what next of deviant coding and
diseased genomics/economics) Siratori "hunts for the grotesque" in a
universe of rat-a-tat-tat repetition and morbid obsession.

This book makes words like "weird" and "strange" redundant. Siratorian
writing, then, supplants text-and-body limits by reducing them to
nano-literate moments of imploded linguistic horror. Siratorian writing
implants the film of the novel directly into your bloodstream via very small
bots that look like ink and appear alphabetic. Be prepared to be
reprogrammed.

There may be only a few hundred ultra-cool people in the world able to read
and comprehend this book in 04. The challenge and danger of this book is the
prediction that, in 2020, the whole world will know what it means.

Todd Swift, London
editor of nth position
http://www.nthposition.com
http://www.kenjisiratori.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595318258/