How to Restore a Timeline: On Violence and Memory - Couverture souple

Counter, Peter

 
9781487011994: How to Restore a Timeline: On Violence and Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1487011997 ISBN 13 : 9781487011994
Editeur : House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, 2024

Synopsis

When a stranger shoots his dad on a Costa Rican pier, Peter Counter hauls his blood-drenched father to safety. Returning home, Counter discovers that his sense of time and memory is shattered, and in its place is a budding new mental illness: post-traumatic stress disorder.

Counter begins to see violence everywhere. From the music of Cat Stevens to Jeb Bush's Twitter feed. Walter Benjamin to Johnny Carson. Taskmaster. Video games. ASMR videos on YouTube. The world is steeped in gore. Again and again, Counter finds himself reliving his father's shooting as his trauma is fragmented, recast, and distorted on a compulsive mental Tilt-A-Whirl.

Formally inventive and incisively smart, How to Restore a Timeline revels in a fragile human condition battered by real conflict and hyper-curated media portrayals of death. Channelling Phoebe Bridgers, George Orwell, and Jordan Peele, these essays look us dead in the eye and ask: What kind of life can we piece together amid all the carnage?

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À propos de l?auteur

PETER COUNTER is a culture critic writing about television, video games, film, music, mental illness, horror, and technology. He is the author of Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays and his non-fiction has appeared in the Walrus, All Lit Up, Motherboard, Art of the Title, Electric Literature, and the anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Find more of his writing at peterbcounter.com and everythingisscary.com.

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Éditeur
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1487011997
ISBN 13 
9781487011994
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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