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Blood Electric (Paperback)

by Kenji Siratori (Author)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Creation Books (1 Jul 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1840680601
ISBN-13: 978-1840680607
Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 666,750 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Vividly evoking the coming to consciousness of an artificial intelligence, Blood Electric is a devastating loop of language from the Japanese avant-garde which breaks with all existing writing traditions. With unparalleled stylistic terrorism fully embracing the image mayhem of the internet/multimedia/digital age, Kenji Siratori unleashes his first literary Sarin attack.

“Contemporary Japan is exploding in slow-motion, and Kenji Siratori arranges the blood-and-semen-encrusted debris with the finesse of a berserk Issey Miyake. Rendering English-language cyberpunk instantly redundant with his relentless, murderous prose-drive, Siratori transmits his authentic, category-A hallucinogenic product direct to his reader’s cerebellum. A virulently warped amalgam of Tetsuo and cut-up era William Burroughs.” – Stephen Barber (author, Tokyo Vertigo)

“Blood Electric is the black reverb of a soft machine seppuku, a molten unspooling of sheet metal entrails and crucified memory banks into the howling void of violence. It is a cyborg crash nightmare of the new flesh, a final despatch from the mutant Hell where the embryo hunts in secret.” – Jack Hunter (author, Eros in Hell)

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Cyberpunk Drug Overdosed, 10 Nov 2002

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The 21st century. Super mass-consumption society, mega highly-networked information society, society of human genom analysis, society of organ transplants. Who is the icon of this era? Christ of AD.2002, new "person who performs a miracle"?
In the 19th century Nietzsche who "killed the God" is the pop=cult icon.
The 20th century especially have many charismas. 60s' Burroughs, 80s' Gibson, and 90s' Kurt Cobain....
Well then, who is the image of the present age, the idol of the mega capitalism era, and the charisma that makes the present hallucinate the edge of the future?
If asked so, we cannot help answering like this:It is Kenji Siratori.
By "merging alchemically" cyberspace and apocalypse, Kenji Siratori exposes the unconsciousness and the desire of super mass-consumption society and mega highly-networked information society, making us overcome the present that is waiting the forthcoming change=catastrophe.
It is a digital-voodoo incantation=cutup=remix, causes cyber trance, and brings techno=death revolution to the society.
In his poetry the images like nightmare are intermingled:body alteration, genome, cyberspace, and drug. Those gadgets are suitable for the 21st outsider literature and rather it can be said that they were inevitable. Right, he is an outsider. So huge that he can make the consciousness of the whole society transmutate....
Our fate is decided by determining the attitude against this book.
Eden or Sodom. The blessd or those who were banished from a paradise. Cyborg or the prison of flesh.
Whether or no, it is infallible that this book "Blood Electric" will be carved to the memory of the whole human beings without wheathering.
We can't stay in the past. Whether we can arrive further than the future or not is up to us. Come on, let's ask for the edge. It is in this book....

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