[the] xxxxx [reader]
Published September 2006 in association with mute. 476 pages. ISBN: 0955066441
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[the] xxxxx [reader] proposes a radical space for code-driven art, science and technology investigations.
[the] xxxxx [reader] is a comprehensive anthology of world and life re-coding strategies, collecting background text, Lisp and Perl program listings, and screenshots.
Contributors
Hal Abelson, Erich Berger, Shu Lea Cheang, Florian Cramer, Yves Degoyon, Leif Elggren, Simon Ford, Olga Goriunova, Paul Graham, Graham Harwood, Stewart Home, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Friedrich Kittler, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Aymeric Mansoux, Bruno Marchal, Armin Medosch, Anthony Moore, Peter Norvig, Jeff Prideaux, Thomas de Quincey, Otto Roessler, socialfiction.org, Gerald J. Sussman, Julie Sussman, Oswald Wiener
Review(s)
Frieze magazine (January 2007) review by Maria Fusco:
Maria Fusco and Jonathan Derbyshire look back over the best art and literature books of 2006
How many of us find, at one time or another, that words are a poor currency for our thoughts? Is language so transparent that we can see straight through it, or so solid that we need a bolt-cutter to excise specific meaning? xxxxx, compiled and edited by Berlin collective xxxxx, traverses such cracks and gaps in comprehension while playing with Thomas Carlyle's cry of the 'Strange Power of Reality.' Declaiming itself as a 'radical new space for artistic exploration', this compendium presents an intriguing selection of writings about writing, editing and 'software subjugation', including work by Yves Degoyon, Olga Goriunova, Stewart Home and socialfiction.org. The result is often obscure, sometimes enlightening, always absorbing. The range of voices (notably, somewhat disappointingly, predominantly male) alone ensures that we, as readers, are kept alert by subtle/brazen shifts in tone and timbre, which together contribute to a persuasive feeling of now. You cannot escape this book, even though often you may not understand it.
Contents
Endonomadology. Otto E. Roessler
The Universal Dovetailer Argument. Bruno Marchal
The Universal Dovetailer coded in Lisp. Bruno Marchal
Screenshots cat1-8. Erich Berger
Comparison between Karl Pribram's "Holographic Brain Theory" and more conventional Models of Neuronal Computation. Jeff Prideaux
The English Mail-coach. Thomas de Quincey
Perl Routines to manipulate London. Graham Harwood
Notes on the Concept of the Bio-adapter. Oswald Wiener
Endophysics. Otto E. Roessler
War.pl Graham Harwood
Process.lisp Paul Graham
From Ripper to Stripper and back again. Stewart Home
Mercury Acoustic Delays and Natural Computing. Anthony Moore
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (extract). Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman
Pornographic Coding. Florian Cramer and Stewart Home
Plenum scenario and patches. Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch, and Martin Howse
New Russian Literary Trend: Chauvinist and Revolutionary "Male Literature" of Udaff.com. Olga Goriunova
By the Source of Life. Appendix. Leif Elggren
As If I was My Father. Leif Elggren
Monadology. Gottfried. W. Leibniz
Human-Computer Oscillation and the need for Calories. Graham Harwood
A Gargoyle Automaton for the Chain-Reaction Glitterati. socialfiction.org
An Artificial Cognitive Map System. Otto E. Roessler
Kodiak.lisp Peter Norvig
Protected Mode. Friedrich Kittler
A Psychopathic Hymn. J. G Ballard's "Crashed Cars" Exhibition of 1970. Simon Ford
Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War. Friedrich Kittler
Emanuel Swedenborg's Physical Computing. Jonathan Kemp
Digital Feedback as another State of Matter. Automated Creation Processes as a new Clay. Aymeric Mansoux
Jabberwocky and London.pl Florian Cramer
Version Control. Martin Howse
Pynchon and Electro-mysticism [new translation]. Friedrich Kittler
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