The publisher ;paranoia has published Kiwa's experimental novel “MILLIMULLIMALLIKAD”, a notional sequel to his award-winning debut novel “Kummiliimiallikad”. The book launch takes place on 24 October at 16:00 at the Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music (ECCM), Pühavaimu 9. Performers: Silvia Sosaar, Kaisa Selde and the band Ratkiller. There will be a bubble show. The book is on sale at a launch price of €10.
“MILLIMULLIMALLIKAD” brings together speculative prose, technopoetics, the absurd, philosophical science fiction and a post-internet aesthetic. The novel is set in a dislocated space-time where different eras, layers of information and realities exist at once, and where human consciousness is under pressure from disintegrating meanings, digital ruins and imaginary memory systems.
The novel opens onto a world where vanished subcultures, non-existent bands, broken URLs, artificially generated identities and “great passionless objects” form a new metaphysical environment. One storyline takes the reader to an isolated boarding school and its surroundings, where different layers of time seem to overlap physically and where the characters experience reality dissolving. Another moves along the borderlands of consciousness, memory and simulation, dealing with questions of identity, existence, the loss of meaning and the autonomy of the imagination.
The novel's form is fragmentary and associative. The text moves between prose, pseudo-essay, surrealist description, interior monologue, technical language, philosophical digressions and poetic imagery.
The book was edited by Roy Strider and designed by Tuuli Aule, and the cover design is by Mihkel Kleis. Its publication was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. “MILLIMULLIMALLIKAD” is the 62nd title published by ;paranoia.