About David Auerbach

I live in New York with several thousand books. I am a writer and software engineer. I have contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, n+1, Bookforum, Triple Canopy, The Quarterly Conversation, and elsewhere.

Literature and philosophy are my two loves but I try to supplement them with healthy, empirical doses of reality.

See also My Life in Books, The First 30 Years.

I am always happy to hear from readers: Please write to waggish@waggish.org.

Articles Available Online:

• The Nation: You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting
• n+1: The Stupidity of Computers
• n+1: Two Daughters
• Triple Canopy: Anonymity as Culture (and Case Studies)
• Bookforum: Andrew Blum’s Tubes
• The Mythology of László Krasznahorkai
• The 19th Century Russian Great Nikolai Leskov
• The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch
• Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl
• Barbara Comyns’ Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
• Vladimir Sorokin: Meat and Clones
• Hans Blumenberg and His Myth Science Arkestra
• Cargo 200: Blurred Spaces

Dichotomies

Dichotomies are best in large quantities. I am:

• an enthusiast, not a critic
• visceral, not rarefied
• conceptual, not aesthetic
• aural, not visual
• formal, not verbal
• a holist, not an atomist
• an empiricist, not a theoretician
• a pluralist, not a dogmatist
• loyal, not fickle
• abstract, not concrete
• grandiose, not subtle
• synthetic, not ingenious
• understanding, not explanatory
• a participant, not an oracle
• a skeptic, not a believer
• a wag, not a priest