You describe your writing as Deleuzean. Explain.

transcribed from a book reading, July 29, 2009, at Megatokyo Cybercafe.

George Crumb: You describe your writing as Deleuzean. Explain.

John Cortland: It is Deleuzean in two regards. On a simple level, Gilles Deleuze's philosophical tracts were not simply aimed at redefining the relationship between desire and the self (as opposed to the Lacanian argument that desire is founded on a lack). Instead, the tracts themselves are meant to make the reader viscerally experience a shift in his/her understanding of desire. In this sense, my novel is Deleuzean. I don't simply want to have the reader question the repetition of self and virtual self and the multiplicity of reality. I want the reader to experience the schizophrenia of the video game virtual identity. Hence, Part 3 is written in a style which overtly aims to subvert the reader's sense of self.



In this sense, what we see going on in leet dialect is an organic reproduction of deconstructionist thought--wordplay and substitution.