{"product_id":"an-ideal-for-living-20th-anniversary-edition-9798682903832","title":"An Ideal for Living (20th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSchism Press brings you the 20th Anniversary Edition of Eugene Thacker's \"anti-novel\" \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal for Living\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an unnamed city in the not-so-distant future, individuals spend their time in isolation, enclosed in high-tech \"pods,\" arrayed in symbiotic megastructures, connected to vast networks of neurological and biochemical data. \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal for Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a glimpse into this world, presented not as a story but as a documentary-style \"dossier\" of data streams, research articles, and automated activity logs. Originally published in 2000, \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal for Living\u003c\/i\u003e evokes a dark poetics of bodies and technologies; at once a look back to cyberpunk science fiction and a look forward to the \"new weird.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As today's strategies of conceptual writing have become legitimized and clich d, Thacker's text reminds us of how radical and potent these gestures once were, treading a fine line between the mechanical and the authorial. This is an important book...these pages take cues from Burroughs and Gibson, while at the same time presciently pointing to the web-based path writing would take over the next decade. It's a joy to see this back in print.\"-- \u003cb\u003eKenneth Goldsmith\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSoliloquy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDay\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUncreative Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, founder of Ubuweb \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50379315577106,"sku":"9798682903832","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb44438e-07f2-45b4-9a6f-3896958cbcf6.jpg?v=1728659961","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-ideal-for-living-20th-anniversary-edition-9798682903832","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}