[Hanshe's] impersonal and absolute but polytonal narrative voice, almost extraterrestrial, or rather meta-terrestrial, punctuates with a rhythm as fluid as it is pounding, a sort of stream of consciousness that is both mythical-archaic and futuristic in the 21 brief sequences of the book, and categorically excludes any possibility of return or of nostalgia for a plot with characters of naturalistic heritage (still prevalent today in the narrative vulgate of world fiction). typographically mimetic and varied with a virtuosity that extends to the extreme and "elastic" punctuation of renewed Futurist-Dadaist legacy. - Maura Del Serra, Corso Italia 7 Dionysos Speed is a shot in the eye, a kaleidoscopic hallucinatory satirical rant describing a delirious feverdream of digital disruption and collapse. In short blasts skittering between breathless monologues and mantras, the book is a new apocalypse, in which Revelations meets Nova Express. It's a jeremiad for the age of AI fantasies and digital conspiracy that just might inoculate its reader against the viral lure of virtual post-humanism. Read it before you are consumed by the blue light! - Stuart Kendall If the target of Dionysos Speed is the "integrative, unitary capitalism" which absorbs, assimilates, and regurgitates everything in its production of consensual reality, the book's devices are phantasmagoric images, striking associations: now raw visions, now elaborate manifestos punctuated with outbursts of (nonsense) poetry, drawing on the full range of avant-garde gestures and operations, and reminding of their creative disruptive rage in their attempt to smash in the façade of naturalized representations that bar us from confronting and undergoing the experience of the real - of what remains in excess of our cognitive rigging, of what refuses to be reified into screenable info content, troubling and unassimilable, flipping over the known into unknown. Again and again, the book urges us to follow its envisioned terrorists, anarchist artists, or punk rockers: "cultivate your legitimate strangeness." It is a book that is properly read if enacted.

Imagine the noise of the silence of every technological medium from where selfies are mysteriously erased. Imagine being overwritten by others who are in their turn ceaselessly overwritten, othered. Imagine the tectonic events set in motion by the Mallarméan throw of the dice. Imagine unknowing your ABC. Imagine. - Erika Mihálycsa A visionary concoction that can be categorized as surrealist poetry or avant-garde science fiction. Dionysos Speed has echoes of Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and Douglas Thompson's Sylovow, but ultimately won't be confused with anything else. Author Rainer J.

Hanshe, a novelist and translator, obeys no existing fictional rules. The prose runs the gamut from the lyrical . to the outrageous . and contains plenty of miscellaneous word play.This is a book that exists in a realm beyond traditional criticism. - Adam Groves, The Bedlam Files.