I’ve started a small solo podcast where I read through my blog posts and add some additional post-hoc commentary and context with the benefit of time and retrospective. In this episode, I discuss a broad theoretical overview of how the aesthetic Overton window is regulated by way of an emergent conformity consensus in elite literary institutions in America, arguing that our culture’s over-optimization for moral purity comes at the expense of aesthetic diversity in the kinds of novels that are able to achieve traditional publication.
DE-FIC Podcast #1: Literary Culture as Purity Culture
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DE-FIC Podcast #1: Literary Culture as Purity Culture
revisiting the Verso books controversy one year later
DECENTRALIZED FICTION by ARX-Han
The future of fiction is decentralized, pseudonymous, and cryptographically distributed.
Published by ARX-Han, debut author of 'INCEL: A Novel' (Amazon.com).
The future of fiction is decentralized, pseudonymous, and cryptographically distributed.
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DE-FIC Podcast #1: Literary Culture as Purity Culture