Bøker av Nathan Jones

Glitches are errors where the digital bursts into our everyday lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. In this book, Nathan Jones shows how writers work with the glitch as a literary effect. 'Glitch poetics' describes a new language of error in literary and media arts: a way to write the breakage, corruption and crisis of the present moment. Based on a range of close readings of contemporary literature by writers including Linda Stupart, Keston Sutherland, Ben Lerner, Caroline Bergvall, Erica Scourti, and the internet novelists, Jones lays the groundwork for writing that can productively engage in current thinking around AI, the Anthropocene, critical posthumanism and code.

Zed is a zombie stripped of all basic zombie urges. The virus that has swept the world has had little effect on our poor hero. He is mocked at Zombie School, ignored by zombie society and feared by the living. You see, Zed is a vegetarian zombie; the only one of his kind. However he is also cursed with cleverness. He knows that the zombie diet of humans can only last so long...What happens to the zombie species when the last human is caught and consumed? Zed's quest becomes clear, but not so simple. He must do all he can to change the minds, habits and diets of his fellow zombies if they are to thrive on Earth. Zed the Vegetarian Zombie is an exciting story of being an individual, doing the best with what you're given and believing you can change the world. It also covers topics of vegetarianism, resource, scarcity, our connection with the environment and standing up for what you believe in. It is written and illustrated by a primary school teacher with an addiction to picture storybooks and a New York Times bestselling author.