de Silva Reading Event
Join us for a Philosophical Chat & Reading
Wednesday Night!
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Join Mark de Silva, Nick Rombes, and Jeff Wood for a wide-ranging exploration of Points of Attack, the new essay collection from de Silva that picks through the hodgepodge of contemporary culture—its mores, technologies, self-image, and forms of engagement—with an arch, philosophical eye.
GUESTS
Mark de Silva is the author of the novel Square Wave, Points of Attack (CLASH Books) and the fiction editor of 3:AM Magazine. He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD).
Nicholas Rombes is author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio), Ramones (from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series), and Cinema in the Digital Age (Columbia University Press). He also wrote and directed the lo-fi sci-fi love story film The Removals. His work has appeared in The Believer, The Oxford American, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other places. He is an English prof. at the University of Detroit Mercy in northwest Detroit, where he hosts the Creative Writing Collective.
Jeff Wood is an actor and writer living in Berlin. He was a founding member of the art/film group Rufus Corporation, directed by Eve Sussman, whose works are now housed in collections at the MoMA, Whitney, and Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He was an editor of the international literary journal Berlin Quarterly, and has collaborated on numerous works of theatre, dance theatre, film, and video. He is the author of the cinematic novel The Glacier (Two Dollar Radio) and multiple essays at 3:AM Magazine.
Praise for Points of Attack
“A sexy philosopher’s almanac, a comet tail of ideas and personal truths, Points of Attack is that rare tonic that will dazzle you with its intellectual spectrum, and all the attention it pays to our burning world.”
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, author of Loss
“These rich, epigrammatic essays cover the waterfront of contemporary life, culture, and the self, flashing with insight and making us think in ways that bring home how little we ordinarily do so. By turns inducing perplexity and strengthening conviction, they aim not to tear us down but to build us up. De Silva admirably models the wakeful, agile intelligence we need if we are to make it through the dark alleys of the future morally intact and sound of mind and body.”
Jacob Howland, author of Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic