Tag: memory

• Valencia/Rectify/Film/Television/Literature

  

  I. James Nulick’s Valencia opens with an HIV diagnosis. Nulick, protagonist, is dying. He has traveled to the southern coast of Spain to stay at the hotel which gives the novel its name. He has traveled there to hasten his death, to preempt the prolonged and painful corporal vulnerability which immunodeficiency entails.

  suspendedreason

  October 2, 2017

  Essays

  ambiguity, foreground/background, Freud, hermeneutic circle, James Nulick, literature, memory, nostalgia, predictive hermeneutics, predictive processing, Rectify, signal/noise, television, time