WALLACE, Mark. Notes from the Center on Public Policy. Minneapolis: The Altered Scale Press, 2014. First Edition. Trade paperback. 178x140mm. 60pp. Fine.

Recalling Perec's Things: A Story of the Sixties, Wallace's devastating Notes from the Center on Public Policy addresses itself to a time in which "there were no things, only claims about things," a time contemporary with our own but addressed from a strange temporal distance whose past tense assumes the quality of our fossilized present subjective interiority has been knocked out by a semblance of its own objectivity, hollowed by soiled calculation, made cavernous by ruin. Were the sun to explode and all go dark, these notes would remain like a ghostly inventory of all that will have been here, an acutely registered paradigm containing all our fungible particulars, "not like dust but like the memory of dust."