There are certain patterns you notice in the aesthetic of Robot Melon: autistic repetition and tenuous causality. Blunt, clipped sentences. The strangeness of the images that arise from these elements is powerful. The materiality of language is an idea you hear tossed around a lot, but it’s got some validity to it. These are stories that feel material and exist and move within language. It’s not that they don’t talk about other things (they do, often gross and striking things), it’s just that they are properly of their medium. They aren’t trying to be other than what they are. They are succeeding at self-sameness, without being reduced to being all the same.
Anyways, it’s a pretty cool site/magazine. Also, nothing is too long so you don’t waste much time if you don’t like something. Read things there at:
October 16, 2008 at 4:22 am |
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