14 Ergebnisse.

The end is sometimes the most obvious place to begin. And so it is with 'The Deserted Island', which begins after the end of Nosnibor's 2018 dystopian exploration of consumerism and mind control, 'Retail Island'. 'The Deserted Island' finds Robert Ashton recalled to the offices of pharmaceutical company Medico under the auspices of an inquiry into previous events. What follows is a Kafka-esque labyrinth of confusion, against a backdrop of the ...

Ben and Stuart are old friends. Having known one another since school, they've grown up together and remained friends into adulthood. But now into their thirties, their lives have taken very different paths, and they're now very different people, leading very different lives, following different careers. Ben is a conformist: office job, moderately successful, and teetering on the brink of a premature midlife crisis. Stuart is a rebellious non-...

In the moment, this present moment - a moment which has been held, suspended, stretched out for what feels like an eternity - the prospect of closure feels impossible. The prospect of a return to normality is as terrifying as the prospect of never returning, of never fully rebuilding the connections with friends and society more broadly. And in considering this, I've become quite intrigued by the psychology of lockdown, the effects of this enf...

I'm not convinced anything can truly convey the experience of the existential angst of living in this moment. I'm not sure there are words to capture the void, the perpetual emptiness. Nothing reverberating nothing, with nothing on the horizon. The hollow sensation of dragging yourself out of bed and wondering why: why are you doing this? What will come next? The biggest fear is that there is nothing.In this collection of experimental texts cr...

Subtitled 'Eight Tales of Everyday Horror and Depravity, ' the short stories and prose pieces featured in 'The Gimp' are dark, twisted reflections of humanity in all its repulsive grotesqueness.'With "The Gimp" Nosnibor shakes a jizz-dripping penis over the work of Peter Sotos and raises two fingers coated in faecal matter over the writing of Sade... disturbed and intense writing.' Dennis Cooper'Offensive, indecent and embarrassing... this fil...

Was it something in the air - or the air-conditioning? Something strange is going on at the office of multinational pharmaceutical company, Medico, and the adjacent new retail park. Robert Ashton is hired to work on the mysterious Project Mushroom and finds himself in the middle of a strange and dangerous situation involving mind control, riots, bad science, and sexual deviance. A taut dystopian thriller in the tradition of JG Ballard, 'Retail...

Modern life is full of niggles and frustrations. It's also bursting with ballaches and tempestuous turmoils on a global scale. What is it that winds you up or grinds your gears? Sometimes, it's an accumulation of the little things that push you to, or over, the brink. So, what gets under your skin, gnaws away at your gut, and drives you crazy? For Christopher Nosnibor, the answer is pretty much everything. Evolved as a spoken word project over...

Tim and Anthony are very different people, leading very different lives, following different careers in different cities. Tim is a conformist: office job, moderately successful, and teetering on the brink of a premature midlife crisis. Anthony is a rebellious non-conformist: a writer who sneers at the humdrum and derides 'corporate sell-outs.' But are they really so very different? The two narratives of From Destinations Set trace these charac...

The Changing Face of Consumerism' could be considered to be the equivalent of Roland Barthes' 'Mythologies' for the Facebook / Credit Crunch generation. Based on a series of blog posts penned between 2007 and 2013, 'The Changing Face of Consumerism' charts one man's experience of a rapidly evolving consumer culture during the credit crunch and recession years. The Changing Face of Consumerism presents a snapshot of an eventful time in modern h...

The core vision of Clinical Brutality, the mode of writing espoused by Clinicality Press' publications revolves around the idea of everyday violences depicted in the most direct, clinical and even medical terms. Life is brutal. The smallest interactions can extract immense measures of pain, from a simple word that serves as the twist of an invisible knife to the all too common domestic slap around the face or even the playful punch. No harm in...

Ben is struggling to find his way in postmodern society, lost in a blizzard of information, his very identity is fading. As he struggles to find his way THE PLAGIARIST - a mysterious, soluble character, half-real, half-imaginary, ever constant but never the same - acts as a guide who shows Ben to the edge of the precipice. But can he be trusted? This curious anti-novel may have all the answers... A riot of experimentation, THE PLAGIARIST is an...

Postmodern Fragments: Writings on Work, Technology and Contemporary Living' is a collection of essays and short works of fiction, all of which share the common themes of life in the (post)modern society. From the cut-and-paste repetitions of 'The Worker' to the thought-provoking social excavations of 'At Home He's a Tourist: Reconsidering the Postmodern Condition, ' this captures Nosnibor at his best and is an essential read for anyone with an...

Six short stories. Six houses, all of them bad in various ways. Six different scenarios or states of mind, all thematically connected, in that they each portray snapshots of everyday life. Using searing, lacerating and explosive prose, 'Bad Houses' takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey through the horrors of modern life and the human condition.

An anthology of poetry and prose that encapsulates the ethos of Clinicality Press and the essence of Clinical Brutality as a mode of writing. Featuring some of the most exciting up and coming writers, as well as a number of more established cult figures, this collection is a short, sharp shock: clinical, brutal, cutting edge. It's all about those small, everyday random acts of violence, not all of which are physical or even necessarily entirel...