Ben Lerner's Darkly Comic Novels | In Person (Ryan Ranch)
Course Description:Ben Lerner's 2014 novel "10:04" examines how modern communication networks have destabilized our sense of time, space, and self, hurling us back to a fickle future not unlike how time travel destabilized Marty McFly's past, present, and future in "Back to the Future." His 2026 release "Transcription" explores how the inundation of information destabilizes our notions of truth and fiction, with the deluge designed to trap our attention rather than inform us—fictions then become desirable and truth becomes unstable. Join us as we read these two acclaimed novels and contemplate how one form of media, the book, might reintegrate the fragmented self by revealing the disintegration of self in the seas of information. |
Tuition: $45.00 Additional Fees: $0.00 |
Day/Time
Wednesdays, Nov. 18; Dec. 2, 9, 16 *10:00 a.m. – noon* (4 sessions)
Location
Attend in person at CSUMB Ryan Ranch, 8 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Monterey
Facilitator:
Arleen Tarantino was a professor at Monterey Peninsula College, where she taught Critical Thinking and College Composition. Her studies focus on the confluence of linguistics, postmodernism, and modern science.