by Udith Dematagoda (Author)

A feverish confrontation with the internet as digital palimpsest, a fragmented discourse upon its banal diabolical passions; hatred, humour, cruelty, obscenity, lust, and poetry - often absurd, sometimes sublime. 'Agonist' speaks to the maddening anomie of the technological present, teetering on the spectral boundary between tedium and inspiration, image and text, contingent and absolute...framed by our tenuous presence against the all-encompassing void.