E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction by David Foster Wallace

An article by David Foster Wallace from 1993, about American T.V. commercialism, advertising and American T.V. culture, highlighting the connection between American television and fiction.

An article that seems ahead of it's time, accurrately depicting and foreseeing American televisual culture. This article definitely still holds up.

Sections:

Act Natural - 00:09
The Finger - 15:11
Metawatching - 31:40
Guilty Fictions - 50:33
I Do Have a Thesis - 1:06:51
Image-Fiction - 1:08:07
Irony's Auro - 1:17:31
End of the End of the Line - 1:52:51

Link to the article: https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf

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The pace and delivery of this read picks up over time. I'm still working on minimizing the mouth noises, pops, clicks in my recordings.