Disposable Thought

by Steven T Bramble

Overview

Cole Scott-Knox-Under, an idealistic technophobe purposefully relegating himself to a minimum-wage fast food job, suddenly notices he is suffering from a strange neurosis: inanimate objects appear to be speaking to him, and the symptoms are worsening.

Hallucinations of lethal drink lids, personified congratulations balloons, desperate old VHS tapes, buried-alive beepers, chatty styrofoam cups, and a holocaust of waste threaten to sever him from his family, friends and job. Or are they hallucinations at all?

This final installment of a triptych of novels about technology and madness sends characters both animate and inanimate on a sweeping adventure into neurosis, metaphysics, drinking, garbage, love, crazed artists and entrepreneurs, powerful furniture magnates, hyperbolic intellectuals, family politics, world revolution, and, eventually, into South Dakota.

A weird dark comedy examining one of the foundational pieces of U.S. modernity and crisis-disposability, in all its concrete and abstract forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732576612
Publisher:	ZQ-287 Press
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Series:	Psychology of Technology Trilogy , #3
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Steven T. Bramble was born in 1986 in Pueblo, CO. He is the author of the Psychology of Technology trilogy (Affliction Included, Grid City Overload, Disposable Thought), a thematically-connected series of novels that questions the implications of modernity. He is a co-founder of ZQ-287 Press and lives in Long Beach.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

for DISPOSABLE THOUGHT

1 An Introduction of Mindset, and History of Materials

2 Origins, and Study of Conflicting Opposites

3 Paradox, the Complex Web, and the Question of Acceptance

4 Nadir, and Hypothetical Executions

5 The Struggle Back Upward, Humanity Separatism, and Objectism

6 Collapse, Conviction, or Possible Lack Thereof

7 Displacement, Experimentation, Odd Geographical Results

8 Love, Supranet, and the Threat of Traditionalism

9 Schism, Movement, Context

10 Terminus of Normality, and Thoughts on Disposability

Editorial Reviews

"Bramble's...postmodern maximalism calls to mind Thomas Pynchon and William T. Vollmann; his grim dystopianism, Orwell and Margaret Atwood; his overt social criticism, Richard Wright and Kurt Vonnegut...confirms the prodigious talent of its author." -Kirkus

"Showcasing a distinctive narrative...style that is as iconoclastic as it is inherently fascinating, Disposable Thought is an extraordinary and fully entertaining read from cover to cover-making it an unreservedly endorsed and recommended addition to personal reading lists." -Midwest Book Review

"It's a rare and wonderful thing to chance upon a novelist this young already writing with this much precision, this much control, and having this much fun with it all. Steven T. Bramble is a writer to watch, and to be reading-not later-but now." -Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels

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