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DOOM ENGINES

Virtanen, Juha (2022) DOOM ENGINES. Veer Books, London, 132 pp. ISBN 978-1-911567-34-9. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:99710)

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Abstract

A book-length series of poems working from, in multiple directions and in increasingly elastic ways, the 1990s video game series DOOM. The work gathered across the volume arises from sustained research into borders and the hostile environment; etymology; histories of the rental market; contemporary labour crises; grief and mourning; mental health and mad studies; and ecology and the ongoing climate emergency.

ENDORSING BLURB:

"As a child unspooled into the algorithmic darkbox that growls, you knew already that the demons splayed and splattered by your BFG9000 would one day feedback [SLASH]. Now, with Virtanen, in the ear and in the eye, we’re here: in engine microbiomes gaudy in fractious pile-up, the binary up our spines is breathlessly snagged; the moon’s bacilli brim over; Sartre’s mescaline crabs actually horrify as glitching morphologies of the ‘contractual sediment [that] overlays names’; a scum of landlords and hand-soap accretes round the rim. All demonic substance from Major onwards is here in association, cosmic and intra-cellular; not woven but smashed together in metonymic ragecore propulsively stressed; between sadism and anxiety, through grief and in love, ‘haptic matters in bronchial / glitzed mafia forum hold steady’.” -Tom Betteridge

Item Type: Book
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: Juha Virtanen
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2023 11:29 UTC
Last Modified: 27 Jan 2023 09:22 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/99710 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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