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Jacob Austin

@fatherfairing

Writer of gnostic pulp, weird americana, and the odd essay. Linktree.com/jacobaustin

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Everybody Wants to Live Inside the Computer On Network States and "Bleeding Edge"

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13.03.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rainbow's Children: Rocket On "Gravity's Rainbow"

New essay on Gravity’s Rainbow open.substack.com/pub/gnosticp...

13.02.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rainbow's Children: Rocket On "Gravity's Rainbow"

New essay on Gravity’s Rainbow open.substack.com/pub/gnosticp...

13.02.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rainbow's Children: Harpoon On Moby-Dick (Again)

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β€œThere is an inhuman will at the helm of this vessel, and we are all at its mercy…”

30.01.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rainbow's Children: Harpoon On Moby-Dick (Again)

open.substack.com/pub/gnosticp...

β€œThere is an inhuman will at the helm of this vessel, and we are all at its mercy…”

30.01.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Star-Woman Orpheus On The Star in Pynchon's Against the Day

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I wrote something for the Pynchon and Tarot freaks.

02.01.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWeird Nature removes science from its esteemed pedestal, not to dump in the garbage bin, but to place back among the rest of the riff-raff of human modes of understanding: art, religion, magic, metaphor, and, perhaps most importantly, wonder.”

17.01.2025 01:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Touch Grass (and the Grass Touches You Back) On Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

gnosticpulp.substack.com/p/touch-gras...
New post on my Substack on Annie Dillard, panpsychism, and getting weird in the woods.

16.01.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

There is never any death of fiction, prose, poetry, art, or beyond. The obituaries they write are always their own. Live mΓ‘s.

03.01.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Star-Woman Orpheus On The Star in Pynchon's Against the Day

open.substack.com/pub/gnosticp...
I wrote something for the Pynchon and Tarot freaks.

02.01.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Dicks On Moby-Dick and Philip K. Dick

gnosticpulp.substack.com/p/two-dicks
I'm kicking off a new substack which will focus on Gnostic Pulp, "the grand American literary tradition in which deep investigation into the nature of reality are mashed up against dime novel tropes." First essay is on PKD and Moby-Dick.

19.12.2024 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The lonely disc golfer
works on his short game
from a backpack full of frisbees.

25.11.2024 15:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bizarro Pynchon is already amongst us. He’s on X, he’s on BSky, he’s on Threads, he’s on Substack, he’s lying spread-eagled at the crossroad. He’s dispersed so finely we’ll never find him. He has no nexus. He is the mist. He is us.

14.11.2024 13:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so many feeds and i'm still hungry

14.11.2024 02:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0