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Timestamps:
0:00 reading one of the most difficult novels
2:00 reading as exchange between consciousnesses
3:45 what is the story of Infinite Jest about?
5:30 the dystopian future of Infinite Jest
6:00 Organization of North American Nations/O.N.A.N.
6:30 President Johnny Gentle and the Great Concavity
7:00 when did David Foster Wallace write Infinite Jest?
7:30 what is subsidised time in Infinite Jest?
9:30 nightmare dystopia or contemporary comment?
10:20 why is the beginning so confusing?
11:20 who are the characters of Infinite Jest?
11:50 Hal Incandenza and Enfield Tennis Academy
12:40 David Foster Wallace on tennis
13:20 the filmography of James Incandenza
15:00 what is the entertainment in Infinite Jest?
16:45 is Infinite Jest a prophetic novel?
20:10 Québécois seperatists/The Wheelchair Assassins
22:00 Don Gately/Ennet Recovery House
23:40 Joelle van Dyne/Madame Psychosis
25:25 worshipping our corporate masters
26:40 we already live in a corporate dystopia
28:30 DFW on addiction as religious devotion
29:50 do we have the freedom to choose?
31:20 loneliness in comfort and easy pleasure
32:40 religious impulse and the death of God
33:40 the existential crisis of drug addiction
35:15 higher power in the twelve-step program
37:00 how do you know you’re addicted?
37:50 the essays of David Foster Wallace
38:30 David Foster Wallace teaching syllabus
39:10 David Foster Wallace and Stephen King
40:00 television, pop culture, postmodernism
41:10 irony and metafiction vs realism
42:00 being addicted to television/social media
45:30 rise of the postmodern hero of non-action
47:00 how we have lost the desire to think deeply
48:00 the battle of short vs long form content
49:00 great literature is frequently boring in places
50:00 Infinite Jest as antidote to instant gratification
50:40 do you have to read the endnotes?
51:45 jokes, parody and secrets in the endnotes
53:00 why you need two bookmarks for Infinite Jest
54:00 reading experience is like a tennis match
55:30 Infinite Jest as encyclopaedic novel
56:00 self-awareness and active reading
57:00 being addicted to obsessive thinking
58:00 is Infinite Jest difficult for the sake of it?
59:00 David Foster Wallace’s narrative style
1:00:00 how difficult is Infinite Jest?
1:01:00 modernism vs postmodernism
1:02:30 relationship between comedy and tragedy
1:04:00 sadness and humour of David Foster Wallace
1:05:30 Sierpiński triangle structure in Infinite Jest
1:07:00 iceberg theory and deformation in literature
1:09:00 DFW’s rationale for structure of Infinite Jest
1:10:30 the author-reader relationship in Infinite Jest
1:12:00 where does the title Infinite Jest come from?
1:14:00 Shakespeare’s Hamlet parallels in Infinite Jest
1:15:30 what is the meaning/point of life?
1:17:30 infinite play within parameters
1:20:00 choosing our freedom and meaning
1:21:20 David Foster Wallace’s tragic end
1:22:30 why should you read Infinite Jest?
1:23:30 recommended pacing for Infinite Jest
1:25:00 the joy of engaging with the book club
1:27:00 what is your experience with Infinite Jest?
