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Everything we know suggests that the dynamics is a matter of relationships, that nature does not need artificed order — dams to stop a river, pumps to make it flow, men planting seeds to decree where plants sprout.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Even at its most artificed -- through this artifice, in fact -- NINE SONGS achieves a realism that makes the staged conversations of most realist cinema look as phony as the insufferable babbling of Dawson's Creek.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Does this or that SF novel "get away" with an anomaly as its "one impossible thing" because of a richly artificed context, or is that anomaly highlighted by that context?
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Does this or that SF novel "get away" with an anomaly as its "one impossible thing" because of a richly artificed context, or is that anomaly highlighted by that context?
Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008
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The events are farcical even at their darkest, artificed to an utter irrealism.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism) Hal Duncan 2008
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The events are farcical even at their darkest, artificed to an utter irrealism.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Even at its most artificed -- through this artifice, in fact -- NINE SONGS achieves a realism that makes the staged conversations of most realist cinema look as phony as the insufferable babbling of Dawson's Creek.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Where temporal and nomological impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of hypothetical/counterfactual and metaphysical quirks, logical impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of pataphysical quirks.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Where temporal and nomological impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of hypothetical/counterfactual and metaphysical quirks, logical impossibility is artificed into narrative in the form of pataphysical quirks.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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These steps must be small, because the Rationalist aesthetic is an artificed superposition, an imposition on the clay of a world deeply Romanticised by many.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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