[BRIEF NOTE] The Campness of the Future
Aug. 29th, 2005 04:37 pmI was paging through Ken MacLeod's Newton's Wake today when I came across a passage that made me laugh out loud.
I've decided that I must read everything MacLeod has written. Where should I start?
That his sexuality was mutable she could well believe; here, most folks' was. In a closed cornucopian economy everything was camp, performance, role-play. People got off on heterosexuality, on marriages and divorces and families as soap opera. Everything was in inverted commas and ironic drag. Like the economy itself: a charade of capitalism played out as if to keep the Joint Chiefs and other ancients happy, in the full unacknowledged that they were in on the joke (65).
I've decided that I must read everything MacLeod has written. Where should I start?