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The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction
by
Adam S. Miller,
Emma Mason,
Mark Knight
May 17, 2017 - May 18, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace)
S. Miller, A. (2016). The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. Bloomsbury Academic.
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ascesis »
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catechumen »
(noun) a convert to Christianity receiving traini…
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eschatology »
the part of theology concerned with death, judgme…
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hagiography »
relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (…
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[...] These are the gods we worship: whatever coi…
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[...] Achievement can be more dangerous than fail…
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[...] Desire naturally assumes that its own inten…
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[...] when life starts to feel insubstantial, you…
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[...] the more time you spend stuck in your head,…
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Preface
how everyone worships, and you will be disappointed by it, but in that moment of disappointment you will discover the real religious moment
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Preface
how everyone worships, and you will be disappointed by it, but in that moment of disappointment you will discover the real religious moment
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Books
on books making you feel less alone
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Heads
on getting stuck in your head (like Hal in IJ)
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Maps
about Eschaton in IJ as an illustration of maps being taking for territories -> head getting confused with the body, thus solipsism?
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Maps
about Eschaton in IJ as an illustration of maps being taking for territories -> head getting confused with the body, thus solipsism?
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Taxes
idk, you have to value the noise and boredom in the world? weak chapter
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Contortions
on the contortionist in TPK as an illustration of the head trying to access all of the body -> a disembodied head, idolatry?
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Contortions
on the contortionist in TPK as an illustration of the head trying to access all of the body -> a disembodied head, idolatry?
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Addictions
addiction in IJ and David Cusk sweating in TPK, and how it's all made worse by thinking about it
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Addictions
addiction in IJ and David Cusk sweating in TPK, and how it's all made worse by thinking about it
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Desire
Lyle and Hal's grandfather in IJ: envy of success even though we suspect it's ultimately empty
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Desire
Lyle and Hal's grandfather in IJ: envy of success even though we suspect it's ultimately empty
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Despair
continuing from the last chapter. mostly about the cruise essay and the "special brand of despair that comes not from being denied what you want but from getting it" (p28)
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Despair
continuing from the last chapter. mostly about the cruise essay and the "special brand of despair that comes not from being denied what you want but from getting it" (p28)
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Distraction
on Drinion levitating in TPK. boredom isnt the problem; the problem is the fact that we're looking for stimulation all the time
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Distraction
on Drinion levitating in TPK. boredom isnt the problem; the problem is the fact that we're looking for stimulation all the time
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Watching
all the time we spend watching TV and how it makes us first and foremost watchers who think about being watched (TV essay, and Captain Video from cruise essay)
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Watching
all the time we spend watching TV and how it makes us first and foremost watchers who think about being watched (TV essay, and Captain Video from cruise essay)
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Assassins
on wheelchair assassins in IJ. our love of distraction is killing us. also about how you can't overthink addiction?
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Assassins
on wheelchair assassins in IJ. our love of distraction is killing us. also about how you can't overthink addiction?
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Irony
how TV makes us ironic and thus lonelier (unlike Mario in IJ)
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Masks
on high-def masking in IJ and why masks are bad
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Beauty
on Joelle Van Dyne in IJ, and Meredith Rand in TPK, and how beauty can function as a kind of mask--can't actually solve your problems. also it's made worse by TV
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Beauty
on Joelle Van Dyne in IJ, and Meredith Rand in TPK, and how beauty can function as a kind of mask--can't actually solve your problems. also it's made worse by TV
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Time
when quitting something, you gotta take it one day at a time (Joelle, Hal in IJ). have to live in the now
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Time
when quitting something, you gotta take it one day at a time (Joelle, Hal in IJ). have to live in the now
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Deskwork
Lane Dean in TPK and being bored. also the cruise essay. have to accept that committing to things--boring things--and the present is not really dying, but the only way of living
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Deskwork
Lane Dean in TPK and being bored. also the cruise essay. have to accept that committing to things--boring things--and the present is not really dying, but the only way of living
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Sewage
about sewage in the cruise essay and how "shit is the idol disenchanted" (it compromises our idolatry)
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Sewage
about sewage in the cruise essay and how "shit is the idol disenchanted" (it compromises our idolatry)
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Size
on big, "adult" truths. quoting from TPK
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Silence
on IRS employees being silent and focused in TPK and good athletes in IJ (transcendence through disappearing into the work/game)
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Silence
on IRS employees being silent and focused in TPK and good athletes in IJ (transcendence through disappearing into the work/game)
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Immersion
gotta immerse yourself in feelings, in the now (see Drinion in TPK, Joelle recovering in IJ)
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Immersion
gotta immerse yourself in feelings, in the now (see Drinion in TPK, Joelle recovering in IJ)
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Indifference
on how indifference can be liberating (Drinion in TPK, Chris Fogle's substitute prof in TPK, Joelle's recovery in IJ)
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Indifference
on how indifference can be liberating (Drinion in TPK, Chris Fogle's substitute prof in TPK, Joelle's recovery in IJ)
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Boredom
past boredom is happiness? Drinion again, then Fogle, and young Toni Ware in TPK
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Awareness
Fogle taking Obetrol in TPK, which offered awareness
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Heroes
on the Jesuit priest's speech about heroes in TPK. forget life after death--can you live now? be truly alive? even tethered to a boring job? that's what heroism is
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Heroes
on the Jesuit priest's speech about heroes in TPK. forget life after death--can you live now? be truly alive? even tethered to a boring job? that's what heroism is
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Revelations
fact psychics and the IRS hiding things in plain view. idk
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Abiding
Don Gately's addiction in IJ and how recovery requires lots of abiding, just like domestic life
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Abiding
Don Gately's addiction in IJ and how recovery requires lots of abiding, just like domestic life
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Bodies
have to inhabit your body as well as your head? hal's grandfather in IJ, Drinion in TPK
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Bodies
have to inhabit your body as well as your head? hal's grandfather in IJ, Drinion in TPK
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Prayer
Gately praying in IJ mostly, and how you just have to trust that it works
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Clichés
on how cliches can be true (AA in IJ)
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Epiphany
epiphanies will occur when you don't expect them (Fogle, Hal seeing Ted in the locker room in IJ)
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Epiphany
epiphanies will occur when you don't expect them (Fogle, Hal seeing Ted in the locker room in IJ)
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Afterword
author doesn't agree with Dreyfus and Kelly on DFW, and their position that "there is no joy in Wallace's world" (p46 of All Things Shining); he thinks DFW is not a nihilist
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Afterword
author doesn't agree with Dreyfus and Kelly on DFW, and their position that "there is no joy in Wallace's world" (p46 of All Things Shining); he thinks DFW is not a nihilist
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