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“Conceived in the waning years of the last century, produced as a one-off for an exhibition in 2004, and now republished as a new open-edition set, *Syntactic Analyses* is modelled on ‘great-books’ series such as the *Everyman’s Library*. One hundred volumes of must read books, primarily covering political thought, philosophy, and history” (Michael Maranda, “Syntactic Analyses Series”).

The paratext accompanying the series, published by Michael Maranda’s own Parasitic Ventures Press, advertises it as a “critical edition.” But scientific criteria are nowhere to be found in this series published by a press which focuses on the subversion of found texts, and which describes itself as being “saprophagous.” Just as saprophagous organisms feed off dead or decaying matter, so does the press “feed off of the decaying detritus of textual history” ( Michael Maranda, “The Books”). In the *Syntactic Analyses* series, the specific structural element which Maranda extracts from the texts is punctuation. The series motto is: “The comma will set you free.”

The series consists of 100 canonical works of Western political theory, philosophy, and history, reduced to their punctuation marks. It includes works by Aristotle, St. Augustine, Averroes, Bacon, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Burckhardt, Burke, Cicero, Confucius, Darwin, Debord, Descartes, Dewey, Freud, Gandhi, Goldman, Grotius, Hegel, Herodotus, Hobbes, W. v. Humboldt, Hume, W. James, Kropotkin, Le Bon, Leibniz, Locke, Lucretius, Machiavelli, Malthus, H. Marcuse, Marx, J. S. Mill, Montesquieu, More, Nietzsche, Paine, Pascal, Pater, Plato, Proudhon, Ricardo, Rousseau, Ruskin, Russell, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Smith, Spinoza, Thoreau, Tocqueville, Veblen, Voltaire, Weber, Wittgenstein, and Wollstonecraft.

All volumes are available as a printed book on Lulu and as a PDF on the publisher’s website.

open edition

artist’s book / bookwork

experimental literature

generative / automation

appropriation

paratextual play

Lulu

Parasitic Ventures Press

reading / interpretation

canon

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typography

Syntactic Analyses

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THE UNCREATIVE SUBTERRANEAN Video

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Simon Morris's blog Getting inside Jack Kerouac's Head

Jadick

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Jason Jadick’s *The Uncreative Subterranean* was submitted as his final project for an “Uncreative Writing” course with Kenneth Goldsmith, which dealt with strategies of literary appropriation, plagiarism, and piracy. Aside from the author’s photo and name, Jadick’s cover imitates the 1994 Groove Press edition of Jack Kerouac’s novella *The Subterraneans* (1958), whose text he also adopts in full. He had “marathon retyped” (blurb on Lulu) it on the computer in a twenty-four-hour performance on November 30, 2012. In the process, Jadick recorded himself and the growing Word document and streamed this live on YouTube (including a computer crash, hangouts, dinner break, etc.). He also posted the produced text hourly on his Tumblr blog, so the progress of the project could be witnessed live. Typing speed varied from 2,188 words in the first hour to 1,317 words in the fifteenth hour. 

The non-stop performance, with its accompanying sleep deprivation, mirrors the restlessness of the Beat Generation and Kerouac’s rapid-fire writing style (*The Subterraneans* is said to have been written in three days); posting on a blog to be scrolled recalls Kerouac’s famous original typescript of *On the Road*, created on a typewriter on a roll of sheets taped together, and his “spontaneous prose style.”

Jadick then transitioned the typescript back into book form, with each hour forming a chapter, even if this means it breaks off mid-sentence: “Typos were edited only if noticed during the performance. All conditions were at the mercy of the technology” (blurb on Lulu). The videos, blog, and typescript are still available online.

As the blurb reveals, Jadick’s book has another predecessor: Simon Morris’s blog *Getting Inside Jack Kerouac’s Head* (2009/10) where he retyped and posted, for almost an entire year, one page per day from Jack Kerouac’s *On the Road*, as if he had taken Truman Capote’s famous dictum about the author of the Beat Generation literally: “That isn’t writing; it’s typing.” Afterward, Morris also transformed the digital text back into book form. In doing so, however, Morris appropriated an idea from Kenneth Goldsmith, who reports in *Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age* that he once instructed his creative writing students to copy Kerouac, according to traditional art education, which usually begins with copying the old masters. 

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education / classroom

paperback

black-and-white

perfect bound

constraint

translation / transcription

tracking

writing / reading techniques

literature

economy / labor

The Uncreative Subterranean

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Edit Publications

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10.8 x 17.5 cm 

montage / remix

documentation / archiving

outsourcing

crowd / collaboration

publishing / distribution

authorship

A Live, Collective, Procedural, Citational Edition of a Lecture

The Little Database

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This zine was published in February 2017 under the name *Printed Web Crisis Edition*, immediately after Donald Trump came to power, and implements Paul Soulellis’ idea of “urgent publishing”: “To publish is, fundamentally, a political act. / In moments of crisis, as we’ve experienced so deeply in the last year, we see not only artists, but community organisers, scholars, poets, and activists collectively engaging with different modes of publishing to urgently document and communicate what’s happening, in real time” (Paul Soulellis, “Urgent Publishing,” 32). 

Presented are screenshots of twenty-two web pages at whitehouse.gov whose content became unavailable immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, around 5 p.m., and was consistently replaced with phrases such as “Thank you for your interest in this subject. Stay tuned as we continue to update whitehouse.gov.” As the list of URLs on the front cover shows, this particularly affects pages on civil rights, women, education, disabilities, immigration, Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, LGBT, health care, and Barack Obama’s climate action plan—in other words, all those areas in which Trump resolutely pursued the opposite policy of his predecessor in office. Each screenshot of the redacted page is accompanied by a screenshot of the last view of the respective page on Obama’s time in office, both reconstructed by Soulellis from the Internet Archive. 

This event is later expanded upon by Soulellis in his publication [*Steve, Harvey and Matt, As discussed with Nancy, we would like the content at the links below removed and archived as soon as possible*](https://apod.li/steve-harvey-and-matt), which documents the Trump administration’s mail exchange that accompanied the April 2017 deletion of all climate change-related US Environmental Protection Agency pages. 

Thank you for your interest in this subject.