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David Foster Wallace had twee ouders en een zus: Amy. Amy is de laatste nog levende persoon uit dit bijzondere gezin.

Ik las een schitterend stuk over haar en haar relatie met haar ouders en vooral die met haar broer: Consider the Sister.

Amy schuwt de publiciteit. Er zijn weinig tot geen foto’s van haar online te vinden. En ze koos er bijvoorbeeld expliciet voor dat haar keynote bij de […]

Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket

https://www.chiply.dev/post-ij-sierpinski

#HackerNews #InfiniteJest #Sierpinski #Gasket #Art #MathFractals #CreativeCoding

Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket

https://www.chiply.dev/post-ij-sierpinski

#HackerNews #InfiniteJest #Sierpinski #Gasket #Art #MathFractals #CreativeCoding

RE: https://janvandenberg.blog/eindeloos-vertieren-i-de-bibliotheek-en-vol-gas/

Geen tijd of zin om Eindeloos Vertier zelf te lezen, dan mag je ook meelezen met mij.

#eindeloosvertier #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace

Eindeloos Vertieren deel 1. Notities tijdens het lezen. Wat spreekt me aan? Hoe ziet ETA eruit volgens AI? Ik heb het gevraagd.

Michael Silverblatt van het programma Bookworm is de beste literaire interviewer die ooit heb gehoord.

Hoe kwam Infinite Jest aan haar wolken? En een GQ artikel over Infinite Jest. En alle audio interviews ooit met David Foster Wallace.

Hoe kwam Infinite Jest aan haar wolken? En een GQ artikel over Infinite Jest. En alle audio interviews ooit met David Foster Wallace.

Hoe kwam Infinite Jest aan haar wolken? En een GQ artikel over Infinite Jest. En alle audio interviews ooit met David Foster Wallace.

Hoe kwam Infinite Jest aan haar wolken? En een GQ artikel over Infinite Jest. En alle audio interviews ooit met David Foster Wallace.

Gister verscheen een Woord van de Vertaler in de Eindeloos Vertier nieuwsbrief. Vertaler Robbert-Jan Henkes vertelt daarin hoe hij een bepaalde betekenis over het hoofd zag. Pas na publicatie zag hij het.

Het was geen typfout. Ook die kunnen er nog in zitten. En hoe dat kan?

Het komt: zo in boekvorm lees je het heel anders dan op je scherm of als uitgeprinte drukproef. Er vallen heel andere […]

Ik keek The End of the Tour. De film uit 2015 gebaseerd op het boek van David Lipsky over zijn week met David Foster Wallace.

Ik keek The End of the Tour. De film uit 2015 gebaseerd op het boek van David Lipsky over zijn week met David Foster Wallace.

Ik keek The End of the Tour. De film uit 2015 gebaseerd op het boek van David Lipsky over zijn week met David Foster Wallace.

Ik keek The End of the Tour. De film uit 2015 gebaseerd op het boek van David Lipsky over zijn week met David Foster Wallace.

Begin 2026 verschijnt de Nederlandse vertaling van Infinite Jest, het meesterwerk van David Foster Wallace. En het gaat Eindeloos Vertier heten. Vertaald door Robbert-Jan Henkes en uitgegeven door Koppernik.

https://janvandenberg.blog/eindeloos-vertier-van-david-foster-wallace/

#DavidFosterWallace #DFW #EindeloosVertier #InfiniteJest #Koppernik

David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷‍♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated

David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷‍♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated

De AI race is in volle gang. En er is elke dag genoeg nieuws om podcasts van drie uur mee te vullen. Ik probeer het te volgen en niet te veel over te bloggen. Maar nu moet ik wel even.

Zo werd gister het nieuwe bedrijf van Jony Ive — bedenker van de iPhone en elk succesvol Apple product van de laatste 20 jaar — gekocht door OpenAI en Google liet ziet dat het met een enorme inhaalslag bezig […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/veo-3-als-motor-voor-infinite-jest/

#AI_ #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #JonyIve #OpenAI #Veo3

Pleasantly surprised by Orion and the Dark in Netflix. Had no idea going into it that it was written by Charlie Kaufman. Love that the kid wanted Infinite Jest for a bedtime story. Unfortunately, the permission slip for the planetarium indicated that the action takes place in 1995. Infinite Jest was published in 1996. #InfiniteJest #OrionAndTheDark #NitPick

I'd like to discuss #Postmodernism with someone. I'm trying to figure out what I think about it. #InfiniteJest, #GravitysRainbow, #SlaughterhouseFive are among my favorite books, if that means anything.
A lot of these descriptions fit me:
"epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism." I think those are good traits, but I have a creeping sense that something is missing...
Maybe I am a #Postmodernist who is slowly inching toward something else?

I'd like to discuss #Postmodernism with someone. I'm trying to figure out what I think about it. #InfiniteJest, #GravitysRainbow, #SlaughterhouseFive are among my favorite books, if that means anything.
A lot of these descriptions fit me:
"epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism." I think those are good traits, but I have a creeping sense that something is missing...
Maybe I am a #Postmodernist who is slowly inching toward something else?

A one-man pandemic book club

The past six months have given me exponentially more time at home than I would have thought possible before this pandemic-afflicted year. Normal people would have occupied those hours by catching up on deferred household maintenance or learning a new language, but instead I’ve whiled away many of them by reading two of the denser novels written in English: James Joyce’s Ulysses and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.

That was not a quick process. Both doorstop-thick tomes feature their authors free-styling their way through prose as they get lost in the inner worlds of a complex set of characters without any strict reference to time or place, which is a longwinded way of saying they can be intimidating to read.

I tackled Ulysses first, since I’ve had a vintage hardcover copy silently taunting me from a bookshelf for the past 20 years or so. There are deeply poetic moments in Joyce’s Dublin-steeped novel–“history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” resonates too well this year–and parts that suggest the author’s profound conviction that he would get paid by the word for every word. Also, I’m impressed that the censors of the 1920s made it all the way through to the really naughty bits towards the end.

After I tweeted out my victory over Joyce’s title and asked “What famously dense novel should I read next?”, one of the first replies suggested Infinite Jest. I finally accepted that logic and put myself on the Arlington library’s waiting list for an e-book copy, but before I could claim that I saw a paperback copy available for all of $2 at a library used-book sale. Buying in print instead of borrowing in pixels meant I’d have all the time I’d need to digest Wallace’s 1,079 words of prose, endnotes, and footnotes to said endnotes.

(Seriously: Wallace’s endnotes eat up almost 100 pages, and a couple count as chapter-length in their own right. I realized early on I’d need to keep two bookmarks in my copy, one to mark my progress in the text itself and the other to preserve my place in the bits at the end–then saw that this book may be best read with three bookmarks. This may be the most hypertext thing I’ve ever read in print.)

Infinite Jest is even more of an atom-smasher of plotlines than Ulysses–it touches on growing up, tennis, drugs, Boston, digital media, addiction, people’s capacity for needless cruelty, crime, more drugs, pop culture, cinematography, Québeçois separatism, and even a smidgen of tech and media policy. And it does so without the standard narrative scaffolding of chapters. I kept having to flip forward to see when the next break in the story might happen, solely to know how late I’d have to stay up before putting the book down at a point that would not leave me too confused the next morning.

I could not help reading Wallace’s tales of Boston types battling depression and inner demons of various kinds without considering how Wallace himself succumbed to his own, because depression lies. Which made me think also of my late, literary-minded friend Mike Musgrove, who I’m sure read this book a long time ago and would have offered some smart or at least smart-aleck commentary about it.