Reality hunger : a manifesto

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"Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels." Read more... Abstract: "Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels." Content: Epigraph -- A -- Overture -- B -- Mimesis -- C -- Books for People Who Find Television Too Slow -- D -- Trials by Google -- E -- Reality -- F -- Memory -- G -- Blur -H -- Now -- I -- The Reality-Based Community -- J -- Hip-Hop -- K -- Reality TV -- L -- Collage -- M -- In Praise of Brevity -- N -- Genre -- O -- Contradiction -- P -- Doubt -- Q -- Thinking -- R -- Autobio -- S -- Persona -- T -- DS -- U -- Alone -- V -- It is Much More Important to Be Oneself Than Anything Else -- W -- Risk -- X -- Let Me Tell You What Your Book is About -- Y -- Manifesto -- Z -- Coda -- Appendix.