Erik Marshall

In Part I of Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson outlines various ways in which media have become more complex in the last several decades, and begins to argue that this complexity has caused a change in the way people think, leading to higher IQs and problem-solving abilities. Some of the more compelling [...]

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K.W. Jeter’s Noir is a dystopic vision of the future, where capitalism has run its logical course, and copyright law is so extreme that the smallest infringement is met with worse-than-lethal force, where the perpetrator’s spinal column and the smallest part of his brain is preserved to allow a minimal amount of consciousness to feel [...]

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It occurs to me that I have never publically explained the title of this blog. Many of you have probably guessed, but it comes from Blake, for whom I developed a…what…infatuation? affinity?…in college that has haunted me since. In “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” he has a few section entitled “A Memorable Fancy”. Here’s one [...]

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A friend just emailed me and told me that David Foster Wallace has a new book of short stories coming out this week. Although I still have to finish the book on infinity, I think I will buy the new one for myself for my birthday.

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