Cher Tan

ʻThere was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough.ʼ Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t online. About knowing a language four times. About living on the interstices. About thievery. About wanting. About the hyperreal. About weirdness. Cher Tan’s essays are as non-linear as her life, as she travels across borders that are simultaneously tightening and blurring. In luminous and inventive prose, they look beyond the performance of everyday life, seeking answers that continually elude. Paying homage to the many outsider artists, punks, drop-outs and rogue philosophers who came before, this book is about the resistance of orthodoxies — even when it feels impossible.

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Peripathetic

Karolina

The internet is merely late capitalism’s beloved envoy; an auxiliary amplifier writ large.

If something is repeated often enough, then it crystallises itself as truth in the cultural consciousness.

If propaganda can now be produced via artificial intelligence, then it's not far-fetched to say that we are living in wartime, except that what we are experiencing is a psychological war. In this war the walls are invisible until you come up against them. You find yourself unable to move forward, yet baffled at your understanding of a reality that doesn’t quite seem to match up with what’s happens then and there.

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