what genre is the art of gig? "business fiction"?
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@ckhonson I have no idea. says there is something called "corplit" (or maybe he made it up).
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@ckhonson speaking of which i don't remember Foster Wallace's Pale King on the list in the newsletter?
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@ckhonson Hmm. I think the genre, if it exists at all, has roots in businss satire comics and TV, not prose/long-form
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@ckhonson Why not? The pieces of flair, stapler, Milton's fate etc. all are in absurdist territory.
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there's also the "yay! we know the same words!" effect with the denseness of RF neologisms we all love.
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