Dispositions (Salt Modern Lives) (Paperback)

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Well ... think of the book like this: a hybrid of James Howard Kunstler in "Geography of Nowhere" and a sane Hunter S. Thompson with a laptop and Global Positioning telephone rig, and you've got a book that's as lucidly reasoned as it is emotional ... think of Wark's "Dispositions" as an impassioned birth cry of a world where geography is difference without distinction ... it's a freewheeling real life view of our networked times -- where anywhere can be everywhere. Nomads of the world check the frequency: In "Dispositions" you'll turn on, and tune in, but be forewarned -- you won't be able to drop out. -- Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid Dispositions skitters between the real and the poetic; a love letter to a wife in a different city, a melancholy musing on the idea of 'home' and an intense travelogue that comes to an abrupt end, all too aptly, on September 11... Images from this book will haunt long after reading. -- Ashley Crawford Melbourne Age

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In an age where displacement and dislocation are a common place, McKenzie Wark sets out to make the best of it. In "Dispositions", he creates a way of writing that can create a sense of belonging while remaining outside of the markers of a reliable identity, whether in terms of nation, profession, gender or genre. Walking a fine line between the essay, the memoir, fiction and the prose poem, "Dispositions" creates a nomadic geography that can find its way across the space of both the city and the space of the text. Wark reimagines Australian writing as a 'minor literature', traversing the world in its own way. As Mark Amerika says: ""Dispositions" reads like a philosophictional codework that samples vocabularies, manipulates meanings, and mixes discourses. Wark's tele-nomadic GPS blog style is an anti-memoir you won't forget."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Salt Publishing (December 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1876857250
• ISBN-13: 978-1876857257
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,552,902 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sample Coordinates, March 28, 2004

By	roy christopher "frontwheeldrivedotcom" (Portland, OR, USA) - See all my reviews

McKenzie Wark's 'Dispositions' (an excerpt is available here:
http://www.21cmagazine.com/sample.html) is kind of a journal written using only a notebook and a GPS. It's also kind of a novel of vignettes -- in turns poignant and and in others funny. Lots of estute observations, memorable aphorisms, and other quotable bon mots (pardon my French). Heady, good stuff.