Hello Chaos A Love Story: The disorder of Seeing and Being Seen

by Charlie Engman

Genres: Essays, Fiction, Art

182 pages, Hardcover

Published April 22, 2024

Reviews

[Olivia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fun, charming and lowkey beautiful essay. read during a shift :) hello kitty x mickey fanfiction that is also philosophical??

[Georgia Evensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is actually profoundly philosophical and thought provoking

[Claudia Glenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book i’ve read in a long time. finished and immediately went back to the beginning to start again. so much to look at, so much to think about.


“kitty was finally ready, at the ripe age of fifty, for an authentic love that embraced the anarchy of existence emphatically, without temperance or equivocation.

she was proud to be a small and particular representation, a hopelessly and beautifully contingent version of that collective chaos.

she was proud to be a creature of unruly imagination—a cartoon cat-girl-question-mark that was tethered to reality but resisted its gravity, like a balloon at the end of a string.”

may we all learn to put a chip-clip on our overflowing sack of greasy desire.

[Linde Stevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

yessss kitty!!!

[Max · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really makes you think about the differences the media treats men and women celebrities along with other specks of identity crisis. I couldn’t help but only imagine the Mickey from South Park the entire time.

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulously unhinged …. Hello Kitty x Mickey Mouse fan fiction / critique of consumerism

[h9nniie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author claims Mickey to be gay but i think it was actually a combination of aromanticism, autoeroticism, and the curse of Narcissus. Kitty needs to stand up.

[✶ nu · Rating 5 out of 5]

delightfully unhinged

[Sai · Rating 5 out of 5]

i have never read anything so visual and textual and culturally contemporary to this Millenia... wow

[Chloé · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thought out and made me extremely uncomfortable In the best say possible

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like wow phenomenal essay with awesome images... my ideal book. Read this while waiting for Anneke at the Centre for British Photo lol

[Lily Wang · Rating 2 out of 5]

some funny images i’ve already seen on the internet and a lesser discussion

[Dayna Cargill · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a ride. That’s all I’ll say