Masiv

by Sebastian Big, George Crângașu (Illustrator)

Sebastian Big este unul dintre cei mai buni clarvăzători sintactici pe care îi cunosc, o meserie de viitor în timpuri de criză nu atât economică, cât conceptuală. Profeții semantice de orice natură, socială, psihologică, literară etc., au încercat mulți în trecut, rezultatele fiind dezamăgitoare, iar direcțiile de urmat neclare, în ciuda eforturilor asidue de a le urma. Lucrător cu semnul, de formație filozofică și cu traduceri din Virilio, Baudrillard, Derrida & Stiegler, Sebastian caută să își valorifice talentele pe piața românească, însă metodele sale de clarviziune sunt puse, deocamdată, la îndoială de un sistem cantonat în factualitatea imediată. – Adrian Dohotaru

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Having received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Cluj University, with mentors such as Adrian T. Sîrbu and the guys from the social-critique magazine Philosophy & Stuff (Alexandru Polgár in particular), Big went on to obtain an MA at the Strasbourg University, where he attended the courses of Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.

He is currently a member of the speculative visual research collective Colonia-Colonia, along with Dan Beudean, Matei Țigăreanu, Cristian Tușinean, and Sasha Bandi, amongst others.

He is also Fractalia’s Renewable Energy Collection coordinator. Together with Ștefan Tiron, Big founded the bio-speculative and advanced research-group at the Aloe Vera Cultural Institute (ic-av.ro).

He is the translator of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation in Romanian.

Reviews

[Yigru Zeltil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unlike Sebastian Big's previous collection of conceptual/flarf/vaporwave/whatever poetry (think of it as bits of detoured and enstranged speech, rich in stereotypes, cliches of languages that are significant on a micro level), ”Masiv” is focused on a virtually single theme: the massif, a structure that dominates all angles of the landscape (the book is bundled with some nifty 3D mountaineous landscapes by Crangasu) and a word that dominates all the texts. Even more than before, Big plunges into cliches - this time of the corny touristic booklet variety -, to such a degree that readers who are not open to metaironical stuff will throw this chapbook away, which is a pity. It isn't a bunch of appropriated texts, it's all carefully written in a very specific manner and tone.

P.S. My best friend loved it when I read her via Skype the entirety of the book in a sweet monotonous voice...