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Obiter Dicta

Erick Verran

Published on October 14, 2021 by punctum books

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Pages
390 pages
Languages
English
Dimensions
7⤫10 in.
ISBN (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-68571-002-6 (Paperback)
ISBN (PDF)
ISBN: 978-1-68571-003-3 (PDF)
LCCN
LCCN: 2021947743
BISAC subject codes
BISAC: PHI001000, PHI026000
Thema subject codes
THEMA: AVA, DSB

Stitched together over five years of journaling, Obiter Dicta is a lyrical compendium representing the transcription of twelve notebooks, since painstakingly reimagined for publication. This unschooled exercise in aesthetic thought, interlaced with quotations from hundreds of diverse authors, interrogates a wide array of subject matter through notes, commentary, observations, and musings. With lessons stolen from seemingly unrelatable disciplines, the restless candor of Erick Verran’s approach to philosophical and social inquiry will be familiar to readers of Dave Hickey’s* Air Guitar* and Mark Fisher’s K-Punk. * Obiter Dicta* is an experiment in intellectual dot-connecting that challenges much long-standing wisdom about everything from illuminated manuscripts to photography to the evolution of European music. A Zibaldone for the 21st century.

Biographies

  • Erick Verran

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    University of Florida

    Erick Verran is an independent scholar and poet whose writings include a study of overlooked ekphrasis in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and a critical explication of the dialogues in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Currently he is at work on a number of essays about the aesthetics of videogames. His poetry last appeared in the Massachusetts Review and City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems. He lives in New York.

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Genres

  • Thought Experiments

Keywords

  • aphorisms
  • literary theory
  • music theory
  • philosophy
  • poetry
  • Theodor Adorno