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Bit rot : short stories and essays / Douglas Coupland ; [editors: Defne Ayas, Samuel Saelemakers].
- Title
- Bit rot : short stories and essays / Douglas Coupland ; [editors: Defne Ayas, Samuel Saelemakers].
- Author
- Coupland, Douglas
- Publication
- Rotterdam : Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, c2015.
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- Description
- 199 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Comprised of short works, written since 2005.
- "Douglas Couplands new book 'Bit Rot', published on the occasion of his exhibition at Witte de With, combines fictional short stories with columns, and creates a parallel narrative to the exhibition itself. 'Bit Rot' addresses subjects such as the death of the middle class, the rise of the internet and its impact on our lives, and in short, evinces a shedding of twentieth-century notions of what the future is and could be. The book is named after a phenomenon in digital archiving that describes the way digital files of any sort spontaneously decompose"--Distributor's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Essays
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Short stories
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition Bit rot by Douglas Coupland, curated by Defne Ayas and Samuel Saelemakers, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, September 11, 2015-January 3, 2016.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introductions -- The short, brutal life of the Channel Three News Team -- Nine readers -- Nine point zero -- Shiny -- Notes on relationships in the twenty-first century -- Fear of windows -- Creep -- Future blips -- Bulk memory -- The anti-ghosts -- Little black ghost -- Drugs -- Beef Rock -- Globalization is fun! -- Unclassy -- Wonkr -- Yield: a story about cornfields -- The 2 1/2th dimension -- Living big -- The end of the golden age of payphones -- The ones that got away -- 666! -- Dueling duals -- George Washington's extreme makeover -- Got a life -- iF-iW eerF -- Stuffed -- Superman and the kryptonite martinis -- McWage -- Zoë hears the truth -- IQ -- My TV -- The preacher and his mistress -- 3.14159265359 -- The great money flush of 2016 -- World War $ -- The man who lost his story -- The valley -- 3 1/2 fingers -- Bit rot -- Bartholomew is right there at the dawn of language -- Temp -- 361 -- My name -- Vietnam -- Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. Brown -- An app called Yoo -- Filtered by experience: an algorithm called Me -- Colophon.
- ISBN
- 9491435426
- 9789491435423
- OCLC
- 933568244
- SCSB-10324856
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library