{"product_id":"reena-spaulings-isbn-9781584350309","title":"Reena Spaulings","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel set in post-9\/11 New York City about a supermodel and the ultimate Broadway blockbuster.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in post-9\/11 New York City, \u003ci\u003eReena Spaulings\u003c\/i\u003e was written by a large collective of writers and artists that bills itself as The Bernadette Corporation. Like most contemporary fiction, Reena Spaulings is about a female twenty-something. Reena is discovered while working as a museum guard and becomes a rich international supermodel. Meanwhile, a bout of terrible weather seizes New York, leaving in its wake a strange form of civil disobedience that stirs its citizens to mount a musical song-and-dance riot called \"Battle on Broadway.\" Fashioned in the old Hollywood manner by a legion of professional and amateur writers striving to achieve the ultimate blockbuster, the musical ends up being about a nobody who could be anybody becoming a somebody for everybody. The result is generic and perfect—not unlike Reena Spaulings itself, whose many authors create a story in which New York itself strives to become the ultimate collective experiment in which the only thing shared is the lack of uniqueness.\u003c\/p\u003e[a] sprawling work of crypto-impressionistic fiction that purposefully elides individual authorship for a sort of rarefied mechanical groupthink.—\u003cb\u003eChristopher Bollen\u003c\/b\u003e, Artforum—The artist-collective Bernadette Corporation was founded in a night club in 1994. In the beginning the group organized spontaneous, purposeless events in public space. In 1995 they morphed into a fashion label, then a self-publishing company that from 1999 to 2001 published an art magazine called \u003ci\u003eMade in USA\u003c\/i\u003e. Bernadette Corporation has also produced films, including \u003ci\u003eHell Frozen Over\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and \u003ci\u003eGet Rid of Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), as well as exhibits at art galleries and museums throughout the world.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305554530533,"sku":"NP9781584350309","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584350309.jpg?v=1767735568","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reena-spaulings-isbn-9781584350309","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}