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.... Via crime stories and crime films, and belief systems such as Scientology, this part details the medium of suspense as a worldview—focusing on one the suspense novel’s great practitioners, Patricia Highsmith, and on one of the suspense motion picture’s great strategists, Alfred Hitchcock. A central...

... work of Cormac McCarthy, J. G. Ballard, and Karl Ove Knausgaard; the exploratory writings of Erving Goffman, Peter Sloterdijk, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; and the social science fiction called the “scientological,” the postscript diagnoses the fate of an autotropic and self-reporting world...

... modern distinctions between real and fictitious persons and real reality and fictional reality, and a good way to locating its modes of transmission, observation, and connection: modes of vicarious crime. Via crime stories and crime films, and belief systems such as Scientology, this part details...

... Goffman, Peter Sloterdijk, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; and the social science fiction called the “scientological,” the postscript diagnoses the fate of an autotropic and self-reporting world, and the strange allure of extinction today. Speculative Realism Experimental Science Half-Education...