Amor fati

<p>The Abstract is meant, despite what its name suggests, to make a given work definite and knowable, to map its parameters in order that the reader, scholarly or otherwise, can determine the worth of a given work – relative to their needs or interests – without having the inconvenience of reading the work itself. In the world of literary publishing, a paragraph like this is meant to convey the most compelling – read: saleable – features of a text in order to entice consumers to purchase one book over another, to take a certain path within the networks of global capital, changing a few ones and zeroes in a sales database that – amalgamated with other, similar changes – might increase, ever so slightly, the satisfaction of an executive board whose goodwill might be passed-on, in reasonable measures, to their underlings who, at best, will get a small holiday bonus, but who, more likely, will just be glad to have another day where they can be fairly certain they will not be fired for having written jacket copy that displeased The Market. The work of fiction contained herein is different, because it knows that either you are the type of person who will read it or you are not – and which type of person you are has already been determined by so many other infinitesimal decisions like this one – binaries, ones and zeroes. There is no point in trying to convince you; you have always already decided – <em>amor fati</em>.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Maxton, Ian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Lesley Larkin

• Anti-novel
• surrealism
• theory-fiction
• hyperstition
• communism
• Arts and Humanities
• Creative Writing
• Fiction

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/656

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1699