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Tag: Footnotes
Hashtags as annotations in books:
When reading Michelle Murphy’s chapter called “Against Population, Towards Alterlife” in Making Kin, Not Population, I (Gabbler) found Murphy’s particular use of hashtags inserted into the text to be fitting little asides — invitations to explore “notes” later online; annotations even the reader could contribute to. Footnotes and endnotes do not allow for such dialog or collaborative annotating. Hashtags are brilliant:
Aspiring towards decolonizing and queer alter-worlds, reproduction might be better rethought as politics of redistributing relations, possibilities and futures. #RedistributionsNotReproductions. Making redistributed relations is an extensive, ongoing endeavor, looped with imperfections, messiness, returns and futurities. I am against population and for a politics of differently distributed futures. #DifferentFutures
October Roundup: Fall back an hour for fall
Happy Day of the Dead!
Here’s the main highlights from October for the CIRCO blog:
Jesse Eisenberg talks about the footnote.Â
Gabbler recommended some things, especially this.Â
Commentary on The Martian came out.Â
And we reminisced about Harry Potter here.Â
Don’t forget to check out our tweets of the week under the Social Medea tab (because why would you follow us on Twitter if you don’t have to?). Â Oh, and THE AUTOMATION Vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero Series is free on Goodreads. Start reading now!
[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]
Jesse Eisenberg and the footnote:
Jesse Eisenberg has a dilemma. Heâs in the studio recording the audiobook for his short-story collection, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, and a particularly footnote-laden story isnât quite working. âMy Roommate Stole My Ramen,â which makes up a significant chunk of the book, follows college freshman Harper Jablonski as she writes effusiveâand unwantedâletters to her high school guidance counselor. âDo you think it would work better if we didnât say âfootnoteâ every time?â Eisenberg asks from the glass-walled booth.
Darren Vermaas, the audiobookâs director, weighs in: âTo me, the repetitiveness of that is funny. But thatâs one manâs opinion.â
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His strength is in dialogue and monologue, and in writing miserable characters who alternately compel (like a 9-year-old from a broken home who writes restaurant reviews) and repel (like Harper, the footnote-obsessed freshman Eisenberg lovingly describes as âmaladjustedâ). âMy only B in college was in short fiction, where I tried to describe a tablecloth for five pages,â he explains. âI donât do that well. Iâd rather describe somebody who tripped over a tablecloth and relate it back to some kind of Freudian experience.â
Harperâs story was inspired by tales of his sisterâs college-roommate troubles. He suggested she write a blog called âMy Roommate Stole My Ramen,â but she never did, so he took the idea back for himself. Harperâs particular writing style came to Eisenberg while he was filming the acclaimed recent biopic The End of The Tour: âI suddenly had this epiphany that she should use footnotes, because David Foster Wallace used footnotes,â he says. âI thought, âOh, thatâs what she is. Sheâs somebody who overexplains everything, and sheâs full of rage and vitriol.â Then everything poured out.â Eisenberg is uncannily good at capturing a specific breed of insincere teen girl. âThe Slutnick [Harperâs roommate] is technically a nice person. Like she always says the ârightâ things, but it feels totally fake.â
[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]
GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – BBC
My only qualms with the show? That there’s no brilliant way to incorporate the novel’s splendid footnotes and all the stylistic atmosphere therein. Waiting on episode 4!Â
[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]