How Prescient Was Infinite Jest?
In David Foster Wallace’s epic, multinational corporations can choose to “sponsor” years - which are then identified as Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Year of the Whopper, and so on. Now comes the news that US treasury is actually issuing sponsored currency: Silver Surfer quarters. Does anybody else find this a little scary?
May 25th, 2007 / 0 Comments / Trackback