EXCREMENT by Kenji Siratori

Postmodern literature’s hallmark strategy is meta fiction, which foregrounds the artificiality of storytelling and challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality. Text’s such as Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow revel in playful, self-referential constructions, drawing attention to their own artifice. This reflects the postmodern skepticism towards objectivity and the certainty of meaning. Hypermodern literature, however, moves beyond metafiction into the realm of algorithmic complexity, reflecting the computational and informational paradigms of the 21st century. The narrative structure of hypermodern texts often mimics digital systems, adopting non-linear, fragmented and hypertextual forms that parallel the chaotic flows of information in the contemporary digital age.

— Kenji Siratori, “Hypermodern Excrement and Algorithmic Xenopoesis (Nut Hole Publishing)”

Advance Praise:

Cryptic and intimidating, Siratori’s prose is cold and analytical and razor-sharp, at points a whisper away from polemical, and lulls you into its belied rhythm of beautifully chaotic ideas.

— Erik Kong Angal, writer of the upcoming book Men Who Tell Stories