![]() ![]() The lasting achievement of these strange, excellent novels is to represent not only the relentlessness with which the internet intrudes on our perceptions, our consciousness, but also the larger and more distant forces that allow it to do so. ![]() ![]() “I Hate the Internet” falls into the latter category, as do Dennis Cooper’s “The Sluts” (2004), Tao Lin’s “ Taipei” (2013) and Lynne Tillman’s “ Men and Apparitions” (2018). ![]() Jarett Kobek wrote these self-ironizing words in his 2016 novel “ I Hate the Internet” now they could serve as a rubric for critics asked to review novels about the internet and to determine whether these novels are solemnly, unrepentantly bad or good in spite of themselves. “The only solution was to write bad novels that mimicked the network in its irrelevant and jagged presentation of content.” “The only solution was to write bad novels that mimicked the computer network in its obsessions with junk media. “The only solution to the internet was to write bad novels with central personages who do not appear. ![]()
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