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Dionysos Speed Paperback – May 31, 2024

by Rainer J Hanshe (Author)
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As the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the human body has been completely rewired. In the mapping of space-time, the species has moved into a state of total possession, of the enslavement of its drives, imagination, and will. Through this virtualization of life, the society of the spectacle has reached a point of unparalleled monstrosity, with the simulacrum usurping reality itself. The species is divided between the digitalists who see the technologization of the human as its natural evolutionary development, and those who stand against them.​At this epochal crux, an enigmatic faction of anonymous figures engages in coordinated global poetic acts of destruction and creation, ludic and radical capers, dismantling machines of control and surveillance. The society of the spectacle is thereby short-circuited, scrambled, cut-up via skirmishes, détournements, and other subversive acts of havoc wreaking, interruption, and sabotage. Can these dice throws overturn all the mediums of control and enslavement? As time grows more and more constricted, the serendipities and transfigurations of human life suffer swift evisceration. In the midst of this, the anonymous clowns of revolt seek to resurrect the moments and marvels when great forces open up the boundless and the limitless, creating combustion engines of play so as to generate new hemispheres of possibility.​Written as a burst of epigrammatic sequences, like Molotov cocktails arriving from elsewhere, Dionysos Speed is a series of erupting geysers, comets flashing thru space and dispersing new forces. Akin to a Heraclitean fire machine, this book is an act meant to give birth once again to dissonant desire through the powers of the dice throw, a machine forged to release by way of its ludic freedom the vital forces of the cosmos.
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  1. Print length
    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Contra Mundum Press
  4. Publication date
    May 31, 2024
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.44 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    194062567X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1940625676
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Dionysos Speed is a shot in the eye, a kaleidoscopic hallucinatory satirical rant describing a delirious feverdream of digital disruption and collapse. In short blasts skittering between breathless monologues and mantras, the book is a new apocalypse, in which Revelations meets Nova Express. It's a jeremiad for the age of AI fantasies and digital conspiracy that just might inoculate its reader against the viral lure of virtual post-humanism. Read it before you are consumed by the blue light! - Stuart Kendall


If the target of Dionysos Speed is the "integrative, unitary capitalism" which absorbs, assimilates, and regurgitates everything in its production of consensual reality, the book's devices are phantasmagoric images, striking associations: now raw visions, now elaborate manifestos punctuated with outbursts of (nonsense) poetry, drawing on the full range of avant-garde gestures and operations, and reminding of their creative disruptive rage in their attempt to smash in the façade of naturalized representations that bar us from confronting and undergoing the experience of the real - of what remains in excess of our cognitive rigging, of what refuses to be reified into screenable info content, troubling and unassimilable, flipping over the known into unknown. Again and again, the book urges us to follow its envisioned terrorists, anarchist artists, or punk rockers: "cultivate your legitimate strangeness." It is a book that is properly read if enacted. Imagine the noise of the silence of every technological medium from where selfies are mysteriously erased. Imagine being overwritten by others who are in their turn ceaselessly overwritten, othered. Imagine the tectonic events set in motion by the Mallarméan throw of the dice. Imagine unknowing your ABC. Imagine. - Erika Mihálycsa
A visionary concoction that can be categorized as surrealist poetry or avant-garde science fiction. Dionysos Speed has echoes of Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and Douglas Thompson's Sylovow, but ultimately won't be confused with anything else. ... Author Rainer J. Hanshe, a novelist and translator, obeys no existing fictional rules... The prose runs the gamut from the lyrical ... to the outrageous ... and contains plenty of miscellaneous word play....This is a book that exists in a realm beyond traditional criticism. - Adam Groves, The Bedlam Files

About the Author

Rainer J. Hanshe is a writer and the founder of Contra Mundum Press and the journal Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. He is the author of two novels, The Acolytes (2010) and The Abdication (2012), and the editor of Richard Foreman's Plays with Films (2013) and Wordsworth's Fragments (2014). He is also the author of the hybrid entity Shattering the Muses (2016), a collaboration with visual artist Federico Gori, Closing Melodies (2023), a phantomatic encounter between Nietzsche & Van Gogh, and Dionysos Speed (2024). Work of his has appeared in Caesura, Sinn und Form, ChrisMarker.org, Asymptote, Black Sun Lit's Vestiges, and elsewhere. In 2016, Petite Plaisance published an Italian translation of his second novel, The Abdication. Shorter and longer works of his have been translated into other languages, and in 2021, the journal Po&sie staged an event at Maison de la poésie in Paris to honor his work. His own translations include Baudelaire's My Heart Laid Bare (2017; 2020), Belgium Stripped Bare (2019), and Paris Spleen (2021), Évelyne Grossman's The Creativity of the Crisis, and Antonin Artaud's Journey to Mexico: Revolutionary Messages, as well as longer and shorter works by other authors. His translation of Léon-Paul Fargue's High Solitude is forthcoming in 2024. Beyond Sense, a vatic exploration of the aphasiac disintegration of Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Artaud, is forthcoming in 2025, The Accumulating Wreckage: Poems, Essays, & Other Texts in 2026, and Paris Without End: Assorted Translations From Giacometti to Artaud: 1914-1964 in 2027. He is at work on a new book entitled Humanimality. Author site: literaryabsolute.com

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Contra Mundum Press (May 31, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 194062567X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1940625676
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.44 x 9 inches

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