Entropy–Rhizome–Metamodernism: Ruin in Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams

This article analyzes Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams using the concept of the rhizome, which leads to the exploration of the entropy–utopia multiplicity. This advances the examination of the book’s dynamics and components, which point to the paradigm of metamodernism. Additionally, the novel’s use of fragmentation and intertextuality places it outside of the either/or dialectic, or any unifying notion. The article thus presents Same Bed Different Dreams as an example of a contemporary experimental novel that neither embraces nor negates fixed notions, but finds its own means of expression set on creating through and despite ruin embedded in its construction and subject matter.