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Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

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svare på mail som er veldig gamle mndår kan virke positivt på en.<br />

kommunikasjonskultur strekke den ut vise at postene har en verdi<br />

utover det. umiddelbare det er å gi det verdi ikke at alt må være siste nytt<br />

for at du. skal svare på det at de ikke har noe annet enn en nyhetsverdi<br />

annonseverdi. som må være en av de laveste verdiene noe kan ha at de<br />

bare ha verdi som. oppmerksomhet. Så kan man selvfølgelig det ha<br />

tomme mail som bare er. oppmerksomhet som om det ikke var nok av<br />

slikt hallois.. prolificating open promiscuous machinic monstruous<br />

fractal viral. indifferent nihilogies nilogues.. bookvalue stages (ref<br />

baudrillard) natural books commodity books structural. books<br />

(hypertext) fractal books (viral radiant). fractal books there is no.<br />

directions without reference to anything whatsoever by virtue of pure.<br />

contiguity. fractal books (hyperbooks cypherbooks) no longer has any.<br />

equivalence an epidemic of book metastasis of text haphazard<br />

proliferation. and dispersal of book. we should no longer speak of<br />

'book' at all for this. kind. of propagation or chain reaction makes all<br />

books impossible. yet things. continue. function long after their idea<br />

have disappeared and in total indifference to. their own content the<br />

paradoxical fact is that they function even better under. these<br />

circumstances. the book is no longer a metaphor for logos etc or<br />

anything. at all merely the locus of metastasis of the machinelike<br />

connections between. all its processes of an endless programming<br />

devoid of any symbolic. organization. or overarching purpose the book<br />

is thus given over to the pure promiscuity of. characterizes networks..<br />

MAIL ART to Michael Lumb. ...It is perhaps ironical that mailart<br />

attracts shy individuals who by. definition tend to be aware of the<br />

network of people from all walks of life. and. not necessarily artists<br />

who communicate their creativity through the postal. system..<br />

...exploring jokes puns and the apparent random placing of both images<br />

and. text. in juxtaposition to each other as well as the use of a repeated<br />

popular image. for example the bicycle. ...It was in this environment<br />

that Johnson began the experiment of work that. acted between art play<br />

and life that was to occupy him for the rest of his. life. mailart.. ...The<br />

contents is the contents the stamp are the stamp the address are the.<br />

address. It is very clear your question 'Is this an art form' is the art<br />

form.. ...as with his announcing nonexistent exhibitions of his in the<br />

village. VOICE... In around the time of his rd birthday he took an ad in<br />

the. art section of the New York Times to announce 'Ray Johnson<br />

Nothing No. Gallery.'. ...his apartment but was surprised to find rather<br />

than the expected Schwitters. like muddle '...a place empty of<br />

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