media-prescience
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| The anti-Entertainment & the book-as-samizdat family | open |
Discussed in
- 'Infinite Jest' Turns 30 — Hermione Hoby on WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart (30th-anniversary radio hour, with listener calls and texts)
- 30 years later, is Infinite Jest the best or the worst? — KUOW Meet Me Here anniversary panel (Jeannie Yandel with Will James, Katie Campbell, Dyer Oxley)
- BBC Radio 3, 'Endnotes': David Foster Wallace (2011) — pre-Pale King documentary with 1995 DFW tape, Amy Wallace, Mark Costello, Bonnie Nadell, Don DeLillo, Rick Moody, Curtis White, Charles Harris, and Michael Pietsch
- Community book club 2
- Community book club 3
- Community book club 4
- DFW on Infinite Jest — To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio (October 20, 1996)
- DFW with Christopher Lydon — The Connection, WBUR Boston (February 21, 1996; the rediscovered 'lost' interview)
- Da Infinite Jest all'Infinite Scroll: David Foster Wallace nell'epoca della distrazione senza fine
- David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About These Eight Things
- David Foster Wallace on the Rise and Fall of the Videophone
- Four Theories Toward the Timeless Brilliance of Infinite Jest
- IJ Book Club Ep. 03: To sleep, perchance to dream? — early season-1 panel on the Gately/DuPlessis burglary, JOI's biography, Kate Gompert, and a first tour of the filmography (pp. ~55–79 + endnote 24)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 04: Hatred of the work is just part of the work — Schtitt & Mario, Tiny Ewell, the first Marathe–Steeply desert section, and the ETA locker room (pp. ~79–121)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 05: Stop her! She stole my heart! — Mario and the U.S.S. Millicent Kent through Helen Steeply's Moment article (pp. ~121–144)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 06: Potential May Be Worse Than None, Jim — anti-ONAN list, videophony worked at length, Pemulis's urine economy, the 1960 garage monologue (pp. ~144–172)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 18: Not Quite Strictly Sober — Clipperton, the advertising essay, the long Marathe/Steeply night (pp. ~407–442): the lexical-fingerprint method arrives
- IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 11: The Vapors — endnote 304 close-read (Struck's plagiarism, le Jeu du Prochain Train, Bernard Wayne) and Joelle cleaning at Ennet House (fn 304 + pp. ~732–~747)
- In the D.F.W. Archives: An Unfinished Story About the Internet
- Infinite Cast Part 124: the Aaron Swartz essay episode (~31 min, all commentary) — the unified theory appraised, the too-late-face counter, the Entertainment realized on TikTok
- Infinite Cast Part 22: JOI Sr.'s tennis lesson — commentary segment (~17 min): the monologue as the Incandenza transmission engine, the mother-horror aphorism, a GameStop-videophony rhyme
- Infinite Cast Part 39: Poor Tony's withdrawal — commentary segment (~21 min): dysphoria written from inside, the seizure as birth scene, tedium as instrument, the punt-broadcast catch
- Infinite Cast Part 67: Marathe & Steeply, Joelle & Don (pp. 528–538) — commentary segment (~21 min): believing I-am-deformed-with-beauty, the veil as filter, UHID vs AA
- Infinite Cast Part 81: Steeply's father's M*A*S*H obsession — commentary segment (~16 min): obsession overblown to the point of lethality, fandom as the normalized version, the Taylor-Swift decoding culture as institutionalized coded-messages psychosis
- Infinite Cast Part 83: Marlon Bain dishes on Orin's past — commentary segment (~18 min): the virtue-philanthropy passage as proto-virtue-posting, cartoonish violence as tempo design, and a pinned theory that JOI was killed by Charles Tavis
- Infinite Jest Extraction
- Infinite Jest Turns 30 — Three21 Productions, 26 for '26 Episode 1 (host Nick explains the book to a first-timer, with audio-footnote asides)
- Jonathan Franzen, \"Farther Away\"
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 02: Eating Granola With A Large Wooden Spoon (v2.0) — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 1–105 (Year of Glad through the locker room; the filmography tour, Gompert, Schtitt)
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 03: Mmmyellow? — monthly IJ read-through, pp. ~105–198 (Marathe/Steeply temple, videophony, the garage monologue)
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 04: I just need to put the book down and go for a walk — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 198–306 (Joelle's overdose, the Schacht match, Ennet House, Orin's backstory, Poor Tony)
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 05: Like Last Time, Only Moreso — pp. ~306–410 (Troeltsch, Mario/Avril, Marathe/Steeply, Eschaton, Boston AA, Mario's puppet film, Lyle)
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 06: Il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur — pp. 410–503 (Marathe/Steeply, Clipperton, Gately's routine, the Antitois, the mattress)
- My Brainrot Demands Slop: Infinite Jest and GenAI
- Remembering David Foster Wallace — To the Best of Our Knowledge special hour (WPR/PRI, 2009)
- The Crowd and the Individual: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Mao II on the Place of the Novel in the Age of Television