Shane Anderson Knihy

Following the four tenets of the Golden State Warriors (joy, mindfulness, compassion, and competition), an American expat in Berlin uses basketball as a lens through which to discover the meaning of life.

Challenging the concept of evolution, this book presents a series of common-sense questions aimed at undermining its validity. It argues that straightforward reasoning can expose weaknesses in evolutionary theory, suggesting that evolution may not withstand critical scrutiny. The text invites readers to reconsider widely accepted scientific ideas through the lens of logical inquiry and skepticism.

Utilising a plethora of devices – erasures, pseudo application forms, Oulipo constraints, and the limits of the paragraph – this is indeed a virtuoso collection that takes on the problems of (modern) travel, power relations, historical and mental representation. Using humor as a tool to diffuse these heavy-handed themes, Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen takes the musical analogy of the ‘étude’ seriously, considering these to be studies, “lessons,” difficult, all aimed towards a future idea of what fiction could be, pushing up against a static Aristotelian scheme.