Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland
Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland
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Bit Rot
stories + essays

Author: Douglas Coupland

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 12 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2017

Synopsis

A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age "Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Douglas Coupland writes, "Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones." Bit Rot the book is a fascinating meditation on the ways in which humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's established fanbase hungry for his observations about our world, and a revelation to new readers of his work. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, his phrase-making, and his visual art. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise, and delight. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix.you can't stop with just one.

About Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian visual artist, writer, and designer. His first novel was the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. He has published fourteen novels, two collections of short stories, eight nonfiction books, and a number of dramatic and comedic works for stage, film, and TV. In 2014, Coupland had his first major solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, after which the show toured to Toronto, and then internationally. His book, Kitten Clone, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Coupland is a contributor to the New York Times, e-flux journal, Artsy, and Vice online and is a columnist with the Financial Times of London. Since 2015 he has been artist-in-residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dana

As usual Douglas Coupland does not disappoint. This collection of slightly random short stories were very well written and unique. The general theme of the collection appeared to concern technology and the future. A few stories hit somewhat close to home, but Coupland's dark wit made it bearable. Th......more

Goodreads review by Kara

Here Douglas Coupland goes again, trying to break our brains and our library cataloguing systems. Is Bit Rot fiction or non-fiction? It’s a collection of both! Oh noes! It contains short stories, including some previously published in Generation A (which I read almost 7 years ago, so I have zero......more

Goodreads review by Kent

Coupland's collection hangs together nicely, mirroring the digital disruption in our lives, while maintaining our collective humanity. In some ways this book felt like a new genre, a new way of accessing the authorial voice in book form in the digital age. The combination of essays, random reviews o......more

Goodreads review by Volodymyr

Безперечно неймовірно Коуплендівська есеїстика (в перемішку з казками по-Коуплендовські) на тему нових технологій і їхнього впливу на наше життя. Серед оповідань звісно є ті які зайшли менше і ті, які зайшли більше. Сподобалися ті, де автор описує події зі свого дитинства і юності і майстерно міксує......more

Goodreads review by Alice

In one of Coupland's novels - Player One, I think - there's a glossary of new and useful terms, including 'fictive snack': the small amount of reading that people who need to do a small amount of reading before they go to sleep do before they go to sleep. There are many fine fictive snacks in this......more

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