"This [deconstruction] is a way for modern literateurs to handle this vast legacy of the past without actually getting…"

"This was the nature of secular power. Industrial power. It was the West that invented it, that invented Hitler, the g…"

"Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the…"

"As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getti…"

"Tomorrow composts today."

"Interstitialism is very postmodern, in that it calls old definitions into question without bothering to invent plausi…"

"Mashups [...] nobody's going to listen to mashups in another ten years. Mashups are novelty music. They're like "The …"

"There are a lot of times and places where "humanity" is headed in no place in particular. Those scenes interest me. L…"

"These people are setting entire new standards for nightmarish postindustrial anti-chic. Only heavy-duty cosmopolitan …"

"When you're deconstructing a book it's like you're psychoanalyzing it, you're not studying it for what it says, you'r…"