Elegiac Machinations

by Dickey, Daulton
ISBN: 9780692459294
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Overview

Reality is a product of perception. To alter reality, we must alter our perception. But how? Our unnamed narrator explores this question and attempts to unravel the mystery in this experimental novella, a non-linear, surreal trip through consciousness-and beyond. Embracing the street art mythos, the narrator plasters an unnamed city with symbols meant to open up awareness-awareness of consciousness, of reality; reality as it is, not how people perceive it. But he lives in a world in which corporations, government, and technology have transformed people into mindless automatons. People move without thinking, follow without thinking, work and live and dream without thinking-and they don't realize they're shackled in a continent-sized prison. To change people, our narrator has to wake them up; he has to make them aware of their shackles. Can he use stencils and spray paint to wake them? Can art still thrive in a culture populated by drones? Part philosophical meditation, part surrealism and literary cubism, Elegiac Machinations is unlike anything you've read. It's a haunting exploration of what it means to be alive, a meditation on the nature of reality and art, and on paying attention in a world dominated by routine and distractions.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Dickey, Daulton
  • ISBN: 9780692459294
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 7.80 x 0.13
  • Number Of Pages: 64
  • Publication Year: 2015
Language: English