This book follows several major European literary «echoes» still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine «modern» identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the «humoristic» tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, «grand narrative.» The book's method, inspired by Joyce, is to «listen» to recurrent motifs in the cultural flow from Humanism to Postmodernism for clues to an identity transcending the personal.

The story of Earth's last war starts withHope's sticky fingers... The multipleaward-winning Batwoman team, J. H. WILLIAMS III (Promethea, The Sandman:Overture, Batman) and W. HADEN BLACKMAN (Star Wars, Elektra), reunites for anall-new ongoing series! They're joined once again by colorist supreme DAVESTEWART and master letterer TODD KLEIN. In abizarre future world that has forgotten its history, a reckless thief, HopeRedhood, holds the key to excavating its dark, strange past--if only sheand her crew can escape a tyrannical wizard and his unstoppable daughter. Butfate will send them all on a path leading to a war between worlds. ECHOLANDS is a landscape format,mythic-fiction epic where anything is possible--a fast-paced genre mashupadventure that combines everything from horror movie vampires to classicmobsters and cyborg elves, to Roman demigods and retro rocket ships. It'sgoing to be a helluva ride! Early praise forECHOLANDS: "It's every fictionalworld, each with its own artistic style, intersecting and exploding with JHW3magic and crackle. I can't wait to see where he and Haden Blackman are takingus--into a world in which anything can happen, and undoubtedly will."--Neil Gaiman "So complex and unique andexpertly executed it pushes the medium forward in new directions and leads toinvigorated interest in the medium of comics itself." --RobertKirkman "A dazzling, kinetic ride through anexquisitely realized fantasy world, bursting with graphic energy andexcitement." --DaveGibbons "Echolands' fallen fantasySan Francisco is painted as a monstrous blend of magic and technology, and readslike a blockbuster car chase." --Kyle Shutt (TheSword) "Getting an eyeful is a massiveunderstatement. I love looking at the drawings as they expand with more detailsemerging every time I look." --Debbie Harry (Blondie, Face It: AMemoir)

Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is a controversial work of anticapitalist philosophy that has attracted musicians, playwrights, feminist theorists, and men's-rights activists since its publication in 1999. More than twenty years after its publication the international reverberation of Young-Girls shows no signs of weakening. Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun is a guide to this ongoing postdigital conversation, engaging with artworks and textual criticism provoked by Tiqqun’s audacious, arguably misogynistic textual voice. Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson show how Tiqqun’s polarizing figure has grown and matured but also stayed unapologetically girly in the works of artists and scholars discussed here. Rethinking the myth of Echo and Narcissus by performing a different kind of listening, they take us on a journey from VSCO girls to basic bitches to vampires. With an ear for the sound of Tiqqun’s polemic and its ensemble of Anglophone and Francophone rejoinders, Young-Girls in Echoland offers a model for analyzing the call-and-response of pop philosophy and for hearing the affective rhythms of communicative capitalism.