
Belan is the CEO and he needs this PowerPoint deck asap. The narrator, however, just wants to fly home - and he might not deliver what Belan is expecting. Set mostly during a delay at SFO, The Belan Deck captures one traveler's reflections on art, artificial intelligence, corporate life, David Markson, coincidences, and literature.
"Very smart, witty, insightful, very literary, and a lovely homage to Markson."-Steven Moore, author of The Novel: An Alternative History
"An excellent, piercing account of the AI question and a reminder of the potentials of fractured literature, or maybe fractured life more broadly. Marksonian to the core and just a joy to read."-Kyle Beachy, author of The Most Fun Thing
"The Belan Deck isn't a straightforward guidebook or manifesto or map, but it nevertheless, in its elliptical, poetic approach, offers a winding, thinking, feeling path of opposition to not only the machines themselves, but also the hollow men who would gladly replace artists and creators and thinkers with those machines. It's also really fun to read. Great stuff."-Edwin Turner, biblioklept.org
"The Belan Deck almost acts as the placement of a hyper sensitive human antenna extended into our cold, dark accelerationist evolution into the Information Age looking for ways in which we can still mine and reflect back upon ourselves some deeply luminous sign of life that reminds us of the beauty resting within the heart of what it means to be human. A must read."-Phillip Freedenberg, author of America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic
"Fantastic, a work of profound wisdom."-Greg Carlisle, author of Elegant Complexity