{"id":3310,"date":"2010-10-06T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2010-10-06T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:12:16","slug":"tom-mccarthy-international-necronautical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"Tom McCarthy: International Necronautical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.necronauts.org\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/C_002056.gif' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the people short-listed for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/\">Man Booker prize<\/a> is Tom McCarthy who, among other things created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necronauts.org\/\">International Necronautical Society<\/a>. This &#8220;semi-ficticious organization&#8221; reminds me of OULIPO. They are &#8220;in our house&#8221; and recruiting. They have a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/necronauts.net\/declarations\/ins_inauthenticity_new_york\/inauthenticity_precis.html\">Joint Statement on Inauthenticity<\/a>. A necronaut according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Necronaut\">Urban Dictionary<\/a> is an &#8220;Annoying hacker and general asshole in Counter-Strike and other online games.&#8221; Or it could be someone who navigates death.<\/p>\n<p>They have a Twitter feed, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/necronauts\">twitter.com\/necronauts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the people short-listed for the Man Booker prize is Tom McCarthy who, among other things created the International Necronautical Society. This &#8220;semi-ficticious organization&#8221; reminds me of OULIPO. They are &#8220;in our house&#8221; and recruiting. They have a lovely Joint Statement on Inauthenticity. A necronaut according to the Urban Dictionary is an &#8220;Annoying hacker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom McCarthy: International Necronautical Society<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11,9,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext-fiction","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-literature","category-people","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}