Between River and Rock: How I Resolved Television in Six Easy Payments

Drawing heavily from David Foster Wallace and Sven Birkerts and aided at almost every turn by the ghosts of poets and great thinkers past and present, BETWEEN RIVER AND ROCK is an impressionistic exposé like nothing you've read before. Here, the oldest son of Scottish closed-caption pioneer John Ball taps his TV pedigree to create a unique insider's memoir and immigrant's tale. Each narrative strand furthers the central charge that the videosphere is a Molochian ploy. The goal? To destroy human self-regard while cementing Wallace's ‘e unibus pluram’ control-paradigm of consensual and collective alienation.