Electronic Blanket

Electronic Blanket ’s Interview Series (Installment #2): James Krendel-Clark interviewed by Wolfgang Carnifex James Krendel-Clark is a writer, theorist, and artist currently based in Boston, MA. His work is an attempt to come to terms with culture in its living totality, or what Boris Groys has called "the new". He is interested in formalism as the reconciliation of ecstasy (Rausch) and intellection, and in the dramatization of ideology (and its critique). He has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Princeton University. He is the author of The Future of the God-Hallucination: Reflections on the Nietzschean Lifestyle-Brand (voidfrontpress) and Hitman (a Récit) , the latter published by Orbis Tertius Press. James Krendel-Clark WC: Tell me about some of the stuff you’re currently working on. Or stuff that you have planned for the future. JKC: I have a lot of projects that I'm working on. I think my main issue these days is a kind of writer's block that...

Electronic Blanket ’s Interview Series (Installment #1): Wolfgang Carnifex (a.k.a. Will Bernardara Jr / luxphage / cryptkicker_5) interviewed by Vicki Stoic If you’re reading this blog, you probably already know who Will Bernardara Jr (a.k.a. Wolfgang Carnifex) is. And so... on with the interview — Wolfgang Carnifex / Will Bernardara Jr --- 2008 VS: Tell us what you’re currently working on. Or what you have planned for the future. WC: James Krendel-Clark and I have a novelette called Cenotaph that we’re shopping around at the moment. It’s about a man trapped in a Horrorsuit who ventures into a kind of "entertainment cenotaph" next-door to an arcade and all the stuff that happens to him in there. It’s sort of like Tetsuo meets Pac-Man or like if the Cenobites from Hellraiser designed a Gundam mech. Also, I finished a short story - a really wacky horror piece - called “Chocolate Box”; I submitted it to a couple places, but I doubt anyone will publish it. It’ll most likely ...