The Architecture of Determinism: Systems, Numbers, and Moral Outsourcing in Ray McKinnon’s The Accountant and Philip Haas’s The Music of Chance The cinematic exploration of systemic entrapment finds its most profound expression through the subversion of traditionally neutral frameworks, such as accounting, actuarial science, and game theor…

From Ray McKinnon’s backwoods nightmare to Auster’s Möbius-strip of chance and punishment, these films use numbers the way horror uses knives.
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The Music of Chance Author Geoffrey Gates writes about books he reads - personal views, not necessarily book reviews exactly - call them literary musings.

My thoughts on #PaulAuster's 1990 novel #TheMusicofChance: something absurd in contemporary American life must have been foreseen in Auster’s terrible fables like this one.
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