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Maranda

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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

scale

typography

Syntactic Analyses

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Weichbrodt_Gregor_On-the-Road_0x0a.pdf

PDF of the 0x0a edition

artist website

Writers’ Collective 0x0a

Stage Performance by Michael Durkin

On the Road at Poetry will be made by all

Weichbrodt

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“Based on the novel *On the Road* by Jack Kerouac and Google Maps Direction Service. / The exact and approximate spots Kerouac traveled and described are taken from the book and parsed by Google Direction Service API. The result is a huge direction instruction of 55 pages. The chapters match those of the original book. All in all, as Google shows, the journey takes 272.26 hours (for 17,527 miles)” (artist website).

Compared to Kerouac’s travelogue, Gregor Weichbrodt’s book reflects a different—far less spontaneous, aimless, and free—way of experiencing the world in the era of Google Maps. Surprises are excluded, since from the beginning it is clear that the destination will be reached. The last sentence reads accordingly: “Destination will be on the right.” 

This book was produced for the series *1000 Books by 1000 Poets*, edited by Danny Snelson, for the exhibition “Poetry Will Be Made By All!” (Zurich, 2014, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Castets, and Hans Ulrich Obrist). A second print-on-demand edition appeared shortly thereafter under the label 0x0a. *On the Road* is also a stage performance by Michael Durkin and 14th Street (March 2015). 


isbn

10.3 x 17.2 cm

unpaginated

perfect bound

paperback

black-and-white

translation / transcription

google

maps / street view

literature

On the Road

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Website of Collective Task

Sterling

Faylor

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Andy Sterling’s *7% dinner 4 lifetime* is a selection of his writing and work from 2010 and 2011—edited and published by J. Gordon Faylor, the founder of Gauss PDF, without letting Sterling know.

The publication stems from a challenge by the artist group Collective Task. On the first day of each month, a member of the collective sets a task for the other members to complete during the month. The task in the case of *7% dinner 4 lifetime *was “Tribute,” whereupon Faylor submitted the edited volume as a surprise gift for Andy Sterling.

He took the texts from email conversations on Gmail, where Sterling, according to Faylor’s “Foreword,” has been busy filling conversations with creative writing, appropriation, and the copying and pasting of text. These texts, which were meant for only a few participants, are treated by Faylor as literary works. Thus, *7% dinner 4 lifetime* is not only a manifestation of Sterling’s virtuous poetry but also a change of publication context, revealing the editor’s rather prominent role in the creation and publication of (experimental) literature.

Selected Work 2010/11

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