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Spermatagonia: The Isle of Man
Grafik-novella, [Autonomedia, 2006]. Photos by NY photographer David Lombard & international photographer Foto Sifichi, excerpted in Fiction International: Madness 2. The fading chalk line between dérive and sleep-walking.
Autonomedia Catalog: "As everyone knows, psychogeography is the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. So when Kees Califlora, a corporate psychogeographer (paid to locate places where people are predisposed to certain marketable behaviors), begins to doubt the validity of his own identity and experience, he's too well-informed about the fictions of his own life to address it directly. The result is a dizzy unravelling, as Kees abandons friendships, interactions, and eventually even language."
Autonomedia Catalog: "As everyone knows, psychogeography is the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. So when Kees Califlora, a corporate psychogeographer (paid to locate places where people are predisposed to certain marketable behaviors), begins to doubt the validity of his own identity and experience, he's too well-informed about the fictions of his own life to address it directly. The result is a dizzy unravelling, as Kees abandons friendships, interactions, and eventually even language."
- “robust, intelligent, determined, articulate... courageous, and cool.”
Robert Coover - “radiant with the importance of the dead... I was overjoyed to silence.”
J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man - “it did the job; put truth on record... It is communicating with the guts, genitals and five portals of sense.”
Thomas Pynchon - “it is fantastical creations like this that have the power to make us regret the world of reality…”
Naomi Klein - "Plantenga captures the petty chill of hip sweatshops as skillfully as his character captures laughter. Plantenga's style is free form… Poetry jumps from his prose. Along the triple x route to the enlightened implosion of Laugh Man Spermatogonia takes fascinating side trips. Including explorations of the nature of laughter and the use by intelligence agencies of sound as a torture technique. Spermatogonia is illustrated with Dave Lombard's b&w photos, which evoke the album art of No New York and the furtive alien autopsy shots of Fox Muldaur."
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