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Myth Lab: Theories of Plastic Love
Myth Lab: Theories of Plastic Love is a genre-defiant sex-trip to post-human dimensions. If C.G Jung, magic-mushroom shaman Terence McKenna and Camille Paglia (Sexual Personae) had a three-way while binging on George Bataille and undergoing Hormone Replacement Therapy, their baby might be the erotic cocktail of Myth Lab. Its extreme theme is nothing less than the fate of the species.
104 pages, Paperback
Published July 2, 2024
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Jack Skelley
10Ìýbooks64ÌýfollowersJack Skelley is author of the novels The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e), 2023), and Myth Lab: Theories of Plastic Love (Far West Press, 2024). Jack’s other books include Monsters (Little Caesar Press, 1982), Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson (Fred & Barney Press, 2021), and Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing (BlazeVOX, 2022). He contributes fiction and non-fiction to many international publications. Jack’s psychedelic surf band Lawndale released two albums on SST Records, and has a new album, Twango.
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February 13, 20253.75 STARS
Glossolalia but high on their own supply.
Kinda feminist sci fi erotica on DMT with a lotta nerd and pop culture references.
Zeitgeist but written by fucked up AI.
Cool pictures.
Random sentence:
“Sir wants tight trachia. That’s where Sir is happy. In the grip of gurgling. Say thank you, Sir.�
Glossolalia but high on their own supply.
Kinda feminist sci fi erotica on DMT with a lotta nerd and pop culture references.
Zeitgeist but written by fucked up AI.
Cool pictures.
Random sentence:
“Sir wants tight trachia. That’s where Sir is happy. In the grip of gurgling. Say thank you, Sir.�
July 6, 2024
Skelley finds the humanity in our increasingly post-human world with such exhilarating and sardonic joy.
June 27, 2024
Brilliant and wild, Jack Skelley’s Myth Lab is a manifesto of exuberance disguised as a sci-fi sex test-center for the invention of communal futures. Skelley’s a mad scientist, scholar and poet.
- Chris Kraus, author of After Kathy Acker
In Myth Lab, Jack Skelley adroitly molds an “Einsteinian elasticity between objects and ether� to the “clitoverse.� If this formulation seems too vast, just think about a) the last time you felt good about power and b) all the ways to say yes to pleasure as a source of liberation. In conducting a “cosmologic psychoanalysis,� Myth Lab thrillingly hot wires our neurons to an endless mirror stage reflective of our own instinctual nature.
- Kim Rosenfield, author of Phantom Captain
An explosion of clit-cock-and-pop-culture worship. Skelley’s eroto-celestial universe fights back not only against the denial of desire � “also known as fuckheadocracy and market forces� � but against death itself.
- Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat
A hallucinatory book that straddles gender studies, science-fiction, and cultural criticism (to name but three of many genres). Ever eager to use a newfound Skelley-ism, I urge everyone to read Myth Lab and be “Kardashian'd� with love (i.e buy it now, it's great).
- Susan Finlay, author of The Jacques Lacan Foundation
In Jack Skelley’s Myth Lab, something weird and beautiful is forged in the crucible of infinite horny grief. It’s an epic, delirious descent into the inferno, navigating the concentric circles of romance and desire as literary malady, TikTok psyop, benevolent cosmological principle, and more. Simultaneously a quest, a physics experiment and an elegy. I loved following its narrator - a tender, erotomanic, Blakean particle - seeking and finding visionary head.
- Daisy Lafarge, author of Love Bug
- Chris Kraus, author of After Kathy Acker
In Myth Lab, Jack Skelley adroitly molds an “Einsteinian elasticity between objects and ether� to the “clitoverse.� If this formulation seems too vast, just think about a) the last time you felt good about power and b) all the ways to say yes to pleasure as a source of liberation. In conducting a “cosmologic psychoanalysis,� Myth Lab thrillingly hot wires our neurons to an endless mirror stage reflective of our own instinctual nature.
- Kim Rosenfield, author of Phantom Captain
An explosion of clit-cock-and-pop-culture worship. Skelley’s eroto-celestial universe fights back not only against the denial of desire � “also known as fuckheadocracy and market forces� � but against death itself.
- Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat
A hallucinatory book that straddles gender studies, science-fiction, and cultural criticism (to name but three of many genres). Ever eager to use a newfound Skelley-ism, I urge everyone to read Myth Lab and be “Kardashian'd� with love (i.e buy it now, it's great).
- Susan Finlay, author of The Jacques Lacan Foundation
In Jack Skelley’s Myth Lab, something weird and beautiful is forged in the crucible of infinite horny grief. It’s an epic, delirious descent into the inferno, navigating the concentric circles of romance and desire as literary malady, TikTok psyop, benevolent cosmological principle, and more. Simultaneously a quest, a physics experiment and an elegy. I loved following its narrator - a tender, erotomanic, Blakean particle - seeking and finding visionary head.
- Daisy Lafarge, author of Love Bug
November 10, 2024
Truly encapsulates the manic world we live in that’s packed to the brim with information,interesting and annoying people and porn and when the lines are blurred between everything
October 8, 2024
i think it is very admirable for a boomer to approach xellenial myth making like this and i’m glad this book was published. it’s very cool to see an elder cool person enter a modern vision of paradise. that said, it wasn’t like, fun to read
August 11, 2024
A whirlpool of flesh and feeling, deep, dense, damp, damaging, and debriding.
July 11, 2024
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