Michael Roth
Michael Roth is the author of Lens Grinder's Shadow, Being an Introduction, Time Between Summers, The Poetics of Resistance, The Indefinite Article, and Telemetry Phenomenology Commonwealth. He has taught philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois State University, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has worked as a senior telemeter in the Azure Platform since its inception.
Address: Redmond, Washington, United States
Address: Redmond, Washington, United States
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On the one hand, in eight parts, a young man in a concentration camp style blue-and-white striped shirt walks from Bregenz to Innsbruck in hopes of spending a winter-to-remember in the Alps. He meets up with Australian travelers, an EMO youth hostel night clerk, a sketchy hobo living for the thrill of the road, and an assortment of German weekenders who take him off the beaten track.
On the other hand, in twelve parts, 4 women at major crossroads in their lives each in turn meet a young man accompanying a friend's casket to Nürnberg so her family can bury her. Elisabet is a singer suffocating from the business of song, Seannafair practices putting her poetry to music while looking for her big break, Natalie is tired of her second-class status in an academic world designed for men, and Greta is desperately trying to reimagine a life without her twin sister.
The book parallels Flamenco's Siguiriya style which traditionally addresses themes of imprisonment and death. In 12/8 time, its 12 belongs to an egg and its 8 belongs to sperm. None of the characters count, however, and measurements fail absent that know-how. Only meiotic division remains as the spindle positives and negatives multiply. In the end, shadows reveal the light.
Using recursive genres, Roth engineers a fabrication that does what it says and says what it does. The trick, he shows, is to know when to stop. This insightful and challenging work demonstrates with understanding, will, and love what there is to look forward to for those who prefer a different kind of story than what they have come to expect from the attention economy.
"Yet another windmill." —Ben Thorne
Through a collaborative chain of moments, a group of colleagues and acquaintances moves about the streets, spread out and concentrating, analyzing and imagining, teaching and listening. Set against the impossible odds of today’s academia, brimming with philosophical insight and foolishness, each confronts the anxiety that comes from having to make choices that will determine who they are to become, without any insight into what they want and what they can achieve. Time Between Summers will challenge your basic notions of freedom, influence, authority, and the moral universe we have built on these fundamental ideals.
On the one hand, in eight parts, a young man in a concentration camp style blue-and-white striped shirt walks from Bregenz to Innsbruck in hopes of spending a winter-to-remember in the Alps. He meets up with Australian travelers, an EMO youth hostel night clerk, a sketchy hobo living for the thrill of the road, and an assortment of German weekenders who take him off the beaten track.
On the other hand, in twelve parts, 4 women at major crossroads in their lives each in turn meet a young man accompanying a friend's casket to Nürnberg so her family can bury her. Elisabet is a singer suffocating from the business of song, Seannafair practices putting her poetry to music while looking for her big break, Natalie is tired of her second-class status in an academic world designed for men, and Greta is desperately trying to reimagine a life without her twin sister.
The book parallels Flamenco's Siguiriya style which traditionally addresses themes of imprisonment and death. In 12/8 time, its 12 belongs to an egg and its 8 belongs to sperm. None of the characters count, however, and measurements fail absent that know-how. Only meiotic division remains as the spindle positives and negatives multiply. In the end, shadows reveal the light.
Using recursive genres, Roth engineers a fabrication that does what it says and says what it does. The trick, he shows, is to know when to stop. This insightful and challenging work demonstrates with understanding, will, and love what there is to look forward to for those who prefer a different kind of story than what they have come to expect from the attention economy.
"Yet another windmill." —Ben Thorne
Through a collaborative chain of moments, a group of colleagues and acquaintances moves about the streets, spread out and concentrating, analyzing and imagining, teaching and listening. Set against the impossible odds of today’s academia, brimming with philosophical insight and foolishness, each confronts the anxiety that comes from having to make choices that will determine who they are to become, without any insight into what they want and what they can achieve. Time Between Summers will challenge your basic notions of freedom, influence, authority, and the moral universe we have built on these fundamental ideals.