Dionysos Speed hits ABC's Best Books of 2024 list

Voted one of the Best Books of 2024 by Declan Fry for ABC.net.au

Other press:

Stuart Kendall called it "A jeremiad for the age of AI fantasies and digital conspiracy that just might inoculate its reader against the viral lure of virtual post-humanism."

Soni Wadhwa dubbed it a "poetic representative" of western modernity's sub-era, noting that the "genius" of Hanshe's "snapshots of digitality as apocalypse" ... "lies in its imagination of audio-visual minutiae of digital interactions." If "Dionysos Speed is—scary, depressing, and confusing in equal parts ... it is also a book that encourages perseverance and persistence. Hanshe has been very intentional with his unsparing exaggeration of the horrors of digital lives, an exaggeration that is well deserved, but the book does not take for granted the reader's intelligence and knowledge about dangers of digitality. An encounter with Hanshe's vision of digital evil is very likely to leave one awed in terms of its craft for turning the macabre into an artistic project between science fiction and prophecy." (Full Stop)

"If the target of Dionysos Speed is the 'integrative, unitary capitalism' which absorbs, assimilates, and regurgitates everything in its production of consensual reality, the book’s devices are phantasmagoric images, striking associations: now raw visions, now elaborate manifestos punctuated with outbursts of (nonsense) poetry, drawing on the full range of avant-garde gestures and operations, and reminding of their creative disruptive rage in their attempt to smash in the façade of naturalized representations that bar us from confronting and undergoing the experience of the real — of what remains in excess of our cognitive rigging, of what refuses to be reified into screenable info content, troubling and unassimilable, flipping over the known into unknown. Again and again, the book urges us to follow its envisioned terrorists, anarchist artists, or punk rockers: 'cultivate your legitimate strangeness.'" — Erika Mihálycsa

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