Discipline & ANARCHY: UDITH DEMATAGODA
Udith Dematagoda is a Scottish writer and musician. A scholar of modernist literature and literary theory, he is co-founder and general editor of Hyperidean Press.
WHY DO YOU DO IT? WHAT DRIVES YOU?
An overwhelming, exclusively artistic, necessity to create; dreamy, impractical, romantic.WHAT IS ONE THING YOU DO FOR SANITY MAINTENANCE?
Play Division 3 basketball with a team that’s 90% from the Balkans. Great bunch of lads. WHAT IS THE SCRAPPIEST THING YOU’VE DONE TO MAKE OR SAVE $$?
Moving across the world.YOUR TASK IS TO PRESCRIBE ONE BOOK OR FILM TO THE COLLECTIVE FOR MANDATORY CONSUMPTION. WHAT IS IT?
Book: TARR by Wyndham LewisFilm: TRAINSPOTTINGCurrent obsession?
The Sea, the mountains, fidelity to lost causes.MOST USEFUL FAILURE?
All half-hearted attempts to have a 'career.'SELECTED Q FROM THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE: What is your favorite occupation?
Being a father. WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON?
A realist novel, in the 19th Century mode, on the grand themes of race and corrupted idealism. DISCIPLINE OR ANARCHY?
Discipline.Check out UDITHS’s New Book,
AGONIST
A volume of experimental prose/poetry written about, and by, the internet:“A feverish confrontation with the internet as digital palimpsest, a fragmented discourse upon its banal diabolical passions; hatred, humour, cruelty, obscenity, lust and poetry - often absurd, sometimes sublime. AGONIST speaks to the maddening anomie of the technological present, teetering on the spectral boundary between tedium and inspiration, image and text, contingent and absolute…framed by our tenuous presence against the all-encompassing void.
”Cover Art: Abstract Composition, 1921 by Wyndham Lewis.©️Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. All rights reserved 2024, Bridgeman Images.
