Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." In CENTURY DEAD CENTER," the phantasmagorical information age eclipses the sleep of reason.
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