Steven Hall (b. 1975, Derbyshire) published his first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, in 2007: the story of a man hunted by a shark made of words, it became an international bestseller, won the Somerset Maugham Award, and landed its author on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. Then, for fourteen years, nothing. Maxwell’s Demon (2021) is his second novel. It is, among many other things, a book about why certain things take fourteen years.
Continue reading> COMPILING FICTION...> DEPENDENCIES: BELIEF> TRUTH VALUE: PENDING> OUTPUT: REALITY (PARTIAL)1. The CoinageThe CCRU, that leaking Warwick laboratory where Nick Land and co. spent the nineties soldering the...
Continue reading> QUERY: WHAT IS IT LIKE?> SCANNING PHENOMENOLOGY...> RESULT: NULL> PROCEEDING BLIND1. The Bat Was the Easy VersionNagel’s famous question, what is it like to be a bat, was supposed to mark the limit of ob...
Continue reading> INITIATING MIND BACKUP...> SCANNING: 86 BILLION NEURONS> COLLATERAL REQUIRED> TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY1. Eschatology With a Billing CycleKurzweil’s prophecy has the exact structure of the old religion,...
Continue reading> BUFFERING FLESH...> LATENCY: NONE> FATIGUE: NOT FOUND> PLAYBACK: ETERNAL1. The Theological GhostEvery promise of resurrection is, at bottom, a promise about a body: a body returned, perfected, freed from...
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