Orders of the real by Alan Sondheim; Writers Forum June 2005

[Alan Sondheim]

    Orders of the real by Alan Sondheim; Writers Forum June 2005

    ISBN 1 84254 601 5 A4 portrait, 44 pp 4 pounds UK incl post UK - email
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    Orders of the Real brings together a number of essays which have
    appeared online and offline over the past two decades. The themes are
    the big ones: the appearance of the world; the wilderness of media;
    inscribing the real; and defuge - the exhaustion of sexuality, theory,
    and thought itself Sondheim has written: "These are the essays I
    return to, over and over again; along with Sophia, they present as
    full a vision of the world as I am capable of."

    Sophia by Alan Sondheim, Writers Forum July 2004

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    "[Sondheim's] writing exploits the plasticity of natural and machine
    language and other codes, unpicking seams of system front ends; and he
    is a stylist, even with system-mediated text, the style in
    appropriateness rather than familiarity.

    He's funny, but it's not punchline humour... The writing comes at
    stand up speed... in an inversion of the bureaucrat's need-to-know

    He projects and expands and redirects personal need, working through
    it intensely, hunger amidst insubstantial plenty, where the material
    is imaginary... in a place occasioned through computers, where what is
    familiar is parodic, undermined / undermining as it is manifested."

    Lawrence Upton at Incubation 3, Nottingham Trent University, 12^th
    July 2004