Author Archives: Matt Carney

I like and do several things which are unlike the other things I don’t do or like.

Re: Gnosticism, the human situation

Q: Use the Gnos­tic texts as provo­ca­tion and Philip K. Dick as inspi­ra­tion in explor­ing your view of the human sit­u­a­tion. What is the truth of our con­di­tion? (from Camille Roy) Our con­di­tion is a per­pet­ual quest for an impos­si­ble truth: the first-hand under­stand­ing of the universe’s total­ity and ori­gin, and to make sense of …

02.09.2012 – 3:26:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

New Story Time

Sure, it’s been some time since I’ve posted now. But you thought I was rest­ing and being polite, then, didn’t you? Shame on you, com­rade; I’ve been quite busy. And I hope you have too. But I’ve been busy; two more out on paper, so two more up here in the ether. “New Sen­sa­tion” and “Sin­gu­lar­ity” …

12.09.2011 – 8:24:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Comments (0)

13. Singularity

Colin Rezo, return­ing from a busi­ness trip in India on a plane, may or may not have an exis­ten­tial freak-out after con­sid­er­ing his sex-tourist antics, then may or may not be mocked by Ger­mans. First appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Trans­fer Mag­a­zine (#102).

12.09.2011 – 8:07:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

9. New Sensation

A “real sci­en­tist” jumps ship once his sug­ges­tion that the earth could, at some point, be doomed by aster­oids goes viral, result­ing in wide­spread panic and first-times for every­thing. Pub­lished in the Fall 2011 issue of Inkwell.

12.09.2011 – 7:52:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)