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BioDynamo
20:20 / 30.03.02

Take a look at textz.com. Play around, see which is their most popular book, which is the largest one, and so on. Interesting choice in books, lots of original language, interesting political project, nice manifesto. Is this the future of the book?
 
 
Trijhaos
21:36 / 30.03.02
Cool. The scrolling text at the bottom of the screen was a bit distracting especially since its color contrasted greatly with the monochrome of the rest of the site.

Not to get into copyright issues and the like, but should some of those books really be there? I saw a couple that really shouldn't be, like the stuff by Douglas Adams and Burroughs, because as far as I know its stuff that is still in print.
 
 
BioDynamo
22:00 / 30.03.02

That's why it's "warez". It is indeed very illegal. And I assume they keep the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy there primarily as a populist trick to get more hits and maybe get the geeks lured into trying Deleuze or Derrida. Probably won't work, but I guess it's worth a try.
 
 
Trijhaos
22:13 / 30.03.02
Ahh...I didn't notice that it was "warez". If they really want to drag more people in they should really make the viewing window a bit bigger.

I actually looked at the Deleuze and Derrida stuff. What I read of the Deleuze was pretty interesting, but couldn't make heads or tails of the Derrida stuff. Probably because it was in german and it'd probably take me a few hours to read two pages of the stuff since its been so long since I had to read anything in german.
 
 
Baz Auckland
14:57 / 31.03.02
As annoying as it is to read large amounts of text off a screen, this is a pretty damn cool idea. I think Project Gutenberg is a good idea, but the whole legaility thing limits what you can get off it.

..and now back to reading that Pynchon essay from the site...
 
 
Baz Auckland
15:08 / 31.03.02
Just have to add: I just downloaded 'Empire' and am very happy... even though I don't see myself reading 792 pages from Word.
 
 
alas
15:26 / 31.03.02
they say there was a time when content was king, but
we have seen his head rolling. our week beats their year. ever
since we have been moving from content to discontent,
collecting scripts and viruses, writing programs and bots,
dealing with textz as warez, as executables--something that is
able to change your life. this is not promotional material.
facing the unified principles of information--the combined
horror of global communication and so-called guerilla
marketing--there is no more need for media theory or cultural
studies. the resistance against corporate culture can itself
no longer remain in the cultural domain. you make a mistake if
you see what we do as merely apolitical.


how cool is that. ... I read some kathy acker, baudrillard, fun fun . . .
 
 
Mystery Gypt
17:53 / 31.03.02
amazing site. now i've got empire, deleuze, and cryptonomicon loaded into my palm pilot. i'm off to go wait in line somewhere!
 
  
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