HEADCODE [Paperback]

Kenji Siratori (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 22, 2004

A sort of new wave hits the post-cyberpunky world, that is the offspring of old-timers initiators."the nerve cells of the hyperreal HIV=scanner forms gene-dub of the cadaver city to the genomics strategy circuit that compressed the acidHUMANIX infection of her digital=vamp cold-blooded disease animals nightmare-script::technojunkies' hunting for the grotesque WEB=covered the reptilian=HUB_modem=heart that jointed and the mass of flesh-module in the surrender-site of the cadaver feti=streaming_brain universe murder-protocol rave on the artificial sun outputs to the insanity medium of the human body pill cruel emulator super-genomewarable abolition world-codemaniacs vital browser of a trash sensor drug embryo the murder-gimmick of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM "

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About the Author

Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric, is a brilliant superhip writer of great intellectual hypermodern fiction. Born in 1975, he currently lives in Sapporo, Japan.http://www.kenjisiratori.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (April 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595318258
• ISBN-13: 978-0595318254
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,098,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars James Joyce Turning Japanese I Really Think So, August 2, 2004

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Todd Swift (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HEADCODE (Paperback)

In the wake of Joyce, and then the acceleration of modernity into the post-modern (via Burroughs) come hyper-hip 21st century authors like Kenji Siratori.

Siratori defies rational critique - perhaps almost demands it be redefined in order to come to terms with him - so bizarre, rapid-fire and insistent is his verbal spillage. Terminologies, pathologies and technologies let rip in a repetitive and terrifying reading experience: the book as threat.

Headcode the book - punning on "head cold" - is a virus, one set to page, but very much able to disturb inscription by its very intrusive presence. With a late logic of cyber-decline (into the what next of deviant coding and diseased genomics/economics) Siratori "hunts for the grotesque" in a universe of rat-a-tat-tat repetition and morbid obsession.

This book makes words like "weird" and "strange" redundant. Siratorian writing, then, supplants text-and-body limits by reducing them to nano-literate moments of imploded linguistic horror. Siratorian writing implants the film of the novel directly into your bloodstream via very small bots that look like ink and appear alphabetic. Be prepared to be reprogrammed.

There may be only a few hundred ultra-cool people in the world able to read and comprehend this book in 04. The challenge and danger of this book is the prediction that, in 2020, the whole world will know what it means.

Todd Swift, London
editor of nth position