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oapen-20.500.12657-254642022-07-21T14:39:57Z An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History Rothes, Joshua anecdotes humor aphorisms fables agnotology bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) A nationwide survey conducted by an institute for philosophical research has determined that nihilists, on the whole, have good intentions. In An Unspecific Dog, Joshua Rothes collects 150 short texts as fables for our time, a veritable catalog of agnotology, a series of situations and propositions that revel in the dark irony at the root of our early-twenty-first-century existence. A man reads the terms and conditions and finds that he has no secrets, while scientists promise that, “with improvements to fMRI technology, what matters to us will become more clear.” The subjects of these texts are caught between vocabularies, between contingency and certainty, the interim in which certain kind of ironic vitality exists, where tragedy and humor are equally likely and often deeply entangled. Rothes reminds us that language acts as a mirror for human experience, in that through it we can never really see the backs of our own heads. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:40:20Z 2020-04-01T10:40:20Z 2017 book 1004631 OCN: 1048146085 9780998531816 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25464 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004631.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0163.1.00 10.21983/P3.0163.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9780998531816 ScholarLed 172 Brooklyn, NY open access
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A nationwide survey conducted by an institute for philosophical research has determined that nihilists, on the whole, have good intentions. In An Unspecific Dog, Joshua Rothes collects 150 short texts as fables for our time, a veritable catalog of agnotology, a series of situations and propositions that revel in the dark irony at the root of our early-twenty-first-century existence. A man reads the terms and conditions and finds that he has no secrets, while scientists promise that, “with improvements to fMRI technology, what matters to us will become more clear.” The subjects of these texts are caught between vocabularies, between contingency and certainty, the interim in which certain kind of ironic vitality exists, where tragedy and humor are equally likely and often deeply entangled. Rothes reminds us that language acts as a mirror for human experience, in that through it we can never really see the backs of our own heads.
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