{"id":13730,"date":"2014-09-18T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:39:54","slug":"superverts-vision-of-the-future-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/09\/superverts-vision-of-the-future-has-arrived.html","title":{"rendered":"Supervert’s ‘Vision of the Future’ Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a> It is possibly Supervert<\/a>‘s most impressive book beauty to date, judging not only from the immaculate white-and-black antiseptic look of it and the heft of it — the text comes to 240 pages — but also, obviously, from the read of it. At one level POST-DEPRAVITY<\/em> is a page turner (literally) and at another a densely reasoned philosophical proposition (indicated by the letters S&M R&D<\/a> on the book’s spine). Set in a hospital, the story updates notions of perversion beyond Sadean for an age beyond technology with characters like Dr. Francis Malenkov (“a neurosurgeon who has become a prophet or a madman”) and Kat Harlow (who “takes a job as an actress in a simulated patient facility,” while “recovering from a nervous breakdown”). Supervert offers his own summary<\/a> in more scientific terms: The book “uses the method of a cross-sectional study, focusing on a representative population at a specific moment in time.” It yields a story that “describes a near future in which people are little more than vectors for strange desires — and yet the increasing ordinariness of strange desires causes a vicious circle [of] degenerates striving for ever more outlandish forms of sexual gratification. The result, ‘post-depravity,’ is an impending state in which perversity and normality become identical.” If that sounds Ballardian, was J.G. Ballad’s procedure ever as rigorous? On a lighter note, the book is dedicated to “Those Who Are Biologically Unable to Conceive” and, per the back cover, the Terms to Learn<\/strong> are: “Anti-Penis \/ Anti-Vagina, Clone Incest, Creepy Simulations Paradox, Exocortical Perversion, Futuropathy, Neosadism, Neural Deviance, Parthenotherapy, Pornolepsy, Post-Depravity, Psychogynecology, Reincarnation Fetishism, Sexual Oddball Effect.” As little Shirley Temple used to say, “Oh my!”
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It is possibly Supervert‘s most impressive book beauty to date, judging not only from the immaculate white-and-black antiseptic look of it and the heft of it — the text comes to 240 pages — but also, obviously, from the read of it. At one level POST-DEPRAVITY is a page turner (literally) and at another a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Post-Depravity360.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23799,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions\/23799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}