Dead Man's Switch

Failure, beauty, irregularity—ever-changing remnants of a stagnant world. 'Dead Man’s Switch' places readers in the presence of rapturous beings and otherworldly essences—humans, deities, drifters, meringues—each speaking from a place neither here nor there. Radiating from nowhere, this strange tale exercises the charity of nothingness, foregrounding a haunting, atmospheric text that speculatively opens and closes the quickening gills of space and time. Enveloped by the love of a living inexistence, where our beautiful “dream within a dream” disappears completely, and arranged in a succession of textual caryatids, 'Dead Man’s Switch' hovers, experimentally, between drama and prose, philosophy and literature, poetry and poetics. The book thus reveals, in a fully sensual form of dialogic post-life that exists neither before birth nor after death, the puzzling prostration-cum-deactivation of a superessential insolvency: What we cannot see or hear is but the apophatic activation of a veering, poetic comfort… forgetting ourselves and glissading over the sharp, wet edge of reason. Did you flip the dead man’s switch?