Accounting 101
Accounting 101
Reading the Exomodern
The coda looks at the nature of accounting in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King to describe a post-symptomatic reading method that shares contemporary literature’s more ontological commitments. I argue here that the current methodological debate about reading has taken place in dangerous isolation from contemporary literature’s own reconsideration of how literary meaning and value might be produced. If texts are themselves shunning standard representational forms and instead producing value ontologically, then reading symptomatically does a disservice to the text. In that regard, the turn away from critique that I observe in contemporary fiction goes hand-in-hand with contemporary post-critical, anti-symptomatic forms of reading.
Keywords: surface reading, symptomatic reading, David Foster Wallace, post-critical interpretation, metafiction, exomodernism
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