Alexander Weinstein Quotes

• I think the future is intrinsically linked with our universal human problems. In fact, it's these very problems, and how we deal with them, which will determine our future.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Thinking, Facts, Problem

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• The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Struggle, Technology, Cyberspace

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• One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and then push it to an even further absurdity. It's only in this light that we can see the reflection of the disturbing state of our present-day affairs.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Writing, Reflection, Light

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• We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Ice, Attachment

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• While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy, and their ability to portray our human struggles and joys.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Struggle, Joy, Stories

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• Las catástrofes medioambientales a las que asistimos actualmente se consideran "normales" aunque sean horribles. La fracturación hidráulica ha hecho que el agua potable sea inflamable, las familias están muriendo de envenenamiento por plomo en Flint, Michigan, la eliminación de la cima de las montañas está matando a familias en los Apalaches, y las empresas petroleras y mineras siguen denigrando los derechos de los nativos americanos e indígenas en todo el mundo (véase el oleoducto de Dakota del Norte en la actualidad). Esto es horrible y, sin embargo, lo consideramos normal.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Drinking, Native American, Oil

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• What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Running, Loneliness, Thinking

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• I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Ideas, Vision, Enlightenment

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• I think the challenge for humans remains the same as it has always been: to learn the skills of kindness, compassion, and love. Without these sacred skills, all technology can do is grow the shadows in our lives.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Bondad, Pensamiento, Compasión

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• I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Stories, Conflict, Chekhov

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• I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Technology, Stories, World

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• David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle stories like "Dictionary" and "Failed Revolution." "Dictionary," in particular, functions against narrative in many ways - each of the definitions are their own mini-story or prose poem, and the collection of them adds up to create a different effect than the traditional Freytagian Pyramid story.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Pyramids, Definitions, Narrative

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• El ingenio y el humor parecen ser siempre un factor a tener en cuenta (hay un tono irónico que se adquiere cuando se aborda una historia formalista), porque hay una voz inherente que se intenta copiar (y a menudo satirizar).

  Alexander Weinstein

  Voice, Trying, Tongue

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• Se nos pide que seamos "auténticos" y "honestos" con el mundo a través de las redes sociales. Se nos pide que publiquemos en Facebook e Instagram fotos de nuestra boda, de nuestro bebé (a los pocos minutos de nacer), del estado de nuestra relación y de nuestras penas y alegrías. Del mismo modo, construimos nuestra personalidad a través de aplicaciones de citas y sitios de redes. Todas estas redes sociales nos presionan para que compartamos los detalles personales de nuestras vidas con masas desconocidas. Así que la presión sobre los personajes de "Apertura" no es meramente romántica, sino también pública y social.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Baby, Grief, Character

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• However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Oil, People, Giving

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• I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Challenges, Narrative, Reeds

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• It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He makes a choice, which the conflict hangs upon - whether to seek fame or actually change his life - and so, his decision is tied to the central conflict and his own hubris.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Fall, Character, Decision

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• I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Development, Narrative

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• In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Bed

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• While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

  Alexander Weinstein

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Teacher

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• You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and self-empowerment seminars. There's a hope for a quick fix - if only we have the money and right drugs for it.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Party, Yoga, Self

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• "Moksha" es en realidad una sátira de mí mismo. Siempre me ha interesado la espiritualidad oriental. Me interesan especialmente la iluminación y la búsqueda espiritual para liberarnos (soy budista de corazón). Durante mi adolescencia, imaginaba que acabaría yendo a la India para convertirme en yogui; estudiar con los últimos santos vivos en una cueva; renunciar a todas mis posesiones mundanas; aprender a levitar. Y todavía hay una parte de mí que se ve "desapareciendo" durante algunos años en algún ashram.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage

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• I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through Adam Woods, and the company he works for, which produces virtual memories that people can beam into their consciousness. While the technology is sci-fi, the story is also a metaphor for the way love relationships create memories in our minds.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Memories, Technology, People

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• When I wrote the story ["The Cartographers"], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other person in my life, the memories we'd shared often felt like phantoms. Who was this person I once loved? Did she still really exist? The answer, on a metaphysical level, was that this person didn't still exist. She'd gone on to become a different person, an individual with new hopes and dreams which no longer involved me.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Dream, Breakup, Memories

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• I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Mother, Memories, Children

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