Review by Penelope Mulligan, critic for Terminal City and Discorder magazine:

“Smart, bratty and relentlessly dystopian, The Great Scroll of Banciao begins like a mock dissertation from some esoteric research project. It quickly shape-shifts into a dream diary from hell. Careening through excruciating accounts of state-sanctioned torture and making studious digressions into matters of overpopulation and mass psychosis, the Scroll is also alarmingly relevant. Di Genova and Star have managed a raucous invocation of their culture theorist gurus (Baudrillard, Debord and Foucault hover the most insistently) as they roll out a world where all is synthetic–even memory of the real–and where everything has become spectacle.”

Read the Introduction to The Great Scroll of Banciao or an excerpt from “The Torture Show”