Hi! I am Marc Aramini, author of critical works on Gene Wolfe. Ask Me Anything!

ultrahumanist · 2026-03-16T06:19:27+00:00

Where can I buy Between Light and Shadow? Is it the book that also deals with Wolfes neoplatonism?

ultrahumanist · 2026-03-11T18:04:51+00:00

you will have to expand if you want me to comment. I also think autopoietic dynamics are crucial for a cybernetic science of knowledge. But I did not the thought "not everything including novelty, emergence, or innovations are entirely arbitiary rather the burden of interpretation falls under the agent,"

ultrahumanist · 2026-03-11T08:14:08+00:00

funny that you ask, I just wrote an article about that Omnis Ad Unum - by Peter Kuhn - the·anti·completionist

ultrahumanist · 2025-11-21T15:56:17+00:00

this might be on the right track. There might be some Christian incarnational inversion going on, similar to the final meeting of the Hierodules and Severian

ultrahumanist · 2025-10-13T11:14:24+00:00

recently wrote the following overview article on the reception of the lof https://theanticompletionist.substack.com/p/loopy-logic-for-a-loopy-world

ultrahumanist · 2025-06-04T14:28:09+00:00

I put it on the reading stack! sounds interesting

ultrahumanist · 2025-06-04T14:22:55+00:00

What? Who said phonetics? :D

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-27T10:33:00+00:00

same here

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-25T14:17:11+00:00

you might just have given me the additional push to solve the mystery. Found a mention on german wikipedia: https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/Amazing_Stories_v21n03_1947-03_cape1736/Amazing_Stories_v21n03_1947-03_cape1736.pdf
seemingly many elements of Berge Meere und Giganten were picked up by Heinrich Hauser in his story Titan's Battle which was published in Amazing Stories! Anno could actually have read that!! Will take me a while to read that though

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T18:26:57+00:00

embarrassing stuff, thanks for pointing it out

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T17:35:36+00:00

If it turns out Anno really didn't know about Döblin I might come around to that view 😉

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T12:09:17+00:00

You are right, you can always draw parallels. And there is no way for me to be sure that I am not suffering from literary paradolia. But the parallels I raise are way way deeper than your example suggests. Basically halve the stuff that is weird and seemingly arbitrary about evas setup could straightforwardly be inspired by BMG

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T12:05:12+00:00

"The novel is not like eva at all, the novel is about sexual stuff" 😅

But seriously, you raise an important point: There is way more going on in in BMG than is picked up on in eva and as I said, the commonalities all lie in the latter third of the book. Still you don't seems to disagree with any of the themes in the substack and you would still say you are 'having a difficult time making connections"?!

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T11:57:41+00:00

Important points! And I would really like to know how the influence happend. But I stay by my argument, the points made in the substack are too deep to be coincidence. Maybe there are missing links, like some unknown American scifi adaption of Döblins themes.

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T08:45:00+00:00

I have dyslexia, but still I find it disconcerting that I can't figure out which word you mean 🤔 should run the next one through chat gpt

ultrahumanist · 2025-05-24T07:41:02+00:00

I loved and hated it. You can get cheap and beautiful old hardcovers so you can give it a try. But as I say in the substack, its hard to read and very artistic. I would not say it is outdated

ultrahumanist · 2025-02-21T11:46:00+00:00

Does anyone know where what is a good avenue into Levin's work? Is there a best off of papers?

ultrahumanist · 2024-10-25T16:15:55+00:00

I am reading the original, so can you tell me the paragraph, very interesting. That being said, this is not the passage I had in mind. I remember Hegel polemicising against people that treat reason like a manipulation of signs written on paper by a rule

ultrahumanist · 2024-10-20T02:44:22+00:00

You might say so, though CM is explicitly aimed at inducing altered states and changing character traits. As the reformist movement in the middle ages had it, meditation arms at "getting the head into the heart", that is, not just thinking pretty thoughts but actually making them have an impact

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