In this timely collection of essays and
"quasi-essays," acclaimed novelist and critic Harold Jaffe explores
the intricate vicissitudes of millennial culture. Gesturing, in a philosophical
shorthand, toward a kind of pop Armageddon, Revolutionary Brain is
at once thesis, allegory, and surreal comedy, demonstrating just how far we,
and the natural world we have debased, have fallen. Obsessed with technology,
we are incapable of reconstructing ourselves. By way of Jaffe’s elegant prose
and perfect pitch, our collective disability is laid bare at the 11th
hour. Revolutionary Brain is a powerful cry for a brave new
aesthetics that turns towards, not away, from our tormented globe.
“I was
transfixed in this volume by Jaffe’s incisive blows to the hypocrisy of
flag waving, nation building, and the lethal intent by our leaders
who stride the globe in bloody boots commanding the 99 percent to obey the
law and get to work in the marketplace of nightmarish dreams. Jaffe
has missed absolutely nothing in delineating our expiring Kultur.
Brilliant.” REGINA KRUMMEL, editor of Prison Poetry
by Shackled Women: The Gates Clang Shut
“The
bravura essays in Harold Jaffe's collection, Revolutionary Brain,
challenge the conscience and consciousness of their readers. This witty and
explosive book is an indictment of injustice and spurious morality and a call
to art and enlightened activism as healing alternatives.” JONATHAN BAUMBACH,
author of You: Or the Invention of Memory
Jaffe is the author of 20 volumes of fiction, docufiction, novels and essays. His writings have been widely anthologized, translated into numerous languages, and received multiple awards. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International.