Elegiac Machinations

By Daulton Dickey

Reality is a product of perception. To alter reality, we must alter our perception. But how? Our unnamed narrator explores this question and attempts to unravel the mystery in this experimental novella, a non-linear, surreal trip through consciousness-and beyond. Embracing the street art mythos, the narrator plasters an unnamed city with symbols meant to open up awareness-awareness of consciousness, of reality; reality as it is, not how people perceive it. But he lives in a world in which corporations, government, and technology have transformed people into mindless automatons. People move without thinking, follow without thinking, work and live and dream without thinking-and they don't realize they're shackled in a continent-sized prison. To change people, our narrator has to wake them up; he has to make them aware of their shackles. Can he use stencils and spray paint to wake them? Can art still thrive in a culture populated by drones? Part philosophical meditation, part surrealism and literary cubism, Elegiac Machinations is unlike anything you've read. It's a haunting exploration of what it means to be alive, a meditation on the nature of reality and art, and on paying attention in a world dominated by routine and distractions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692459294
• ISBN13: 9780692459294
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Exeunt Reason Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"