Digital Folklore

Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
Designed by Manuel Buerger
Published by Merz & Solitude

Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn’t matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large.
Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.
As the first book of its kind, this reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement …

D 34.50€

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Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere – Paul Haworth

Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words “2008 was the worst year of my life.” This is the story of that year.

Neon and doors – I’m dead, hell, we’re being pumped in by the dozen – I don’t belong here! – yes you do, sex fiend – to a tight passage – bundles of us trying to get out – bottle-necked against a tunnel of lights – the triple-X, neon and doors, passages to perdition – I shuffle with the masses – nearly there – I notice…a woman – or she notices me – our eyes meet, skinny, late thirties, she is squatting in a doorway, eating a burger, she speaks: “Do you have trouble with the ladies, sir?”

Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere sweeps our hyper-emotional hero across England, into the depths of despair and deranged behaviour, towards a mythical destination – The Lady Field – a fabled area of Hampstead Heath where it isn’t just men who are cruising. Carnforth yobs, Sex and the City: The Movie, dogging fanatics, Christian Slater, Community Support Officers and the Page Street Gang – these are just some of the forces Alex is up against as he seeks to find the manhood, absolution and purpose in life that will empower him to win the love of Trevoreesia, his Absqueen.

All the while, the economy is collapsing – “My life had been in crisis for so long and now the world was catching up,” observes Alex – and the soundtrack to this far-gone era is Take That’s cruel taunt: THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES. Does that day come for Alex Brenchley or will he remain, always and forever, Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere?

Mixing Cockney, teen lingo, Victorian slang and inventive wordplay, Haworth’s colourful style makes for an exhilarating and addictive read. This is the second part in a trilogy of comedic novels about Alex Brenchley.

Published by True True True
Edition of 1000
D 10€

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The Exhibitionist #3, Journal on exhibition making.
Published by Archive Books.

D 10€
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OPEN IMPACT CHANNEL
Your limit is our imagination!

Graphic Design, Photography and concept by
Ines Cox and Lauren Grusenmeyer

www.cox-grusenmeyer.com
info@cox-grusenmeyer.com

D 19€

Edition 300 copies

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If A then b, Notes on Translation, Issue 1

Edited by Pablo Larios
Designed by John McCusker and Sara Hartman

Contributors: David Gutkin, VVORK, Eve Essex, Justin Katko, Hailey Silverman, Kenneth Haynes, Ida Hattemer-Higgins, Helen Dewitt, Ulf Stolterfroht/ Rosmarie Waldrop, Guy Davenport, Lindsay Lawson, Anne de Vries

D 15€

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Livre un: le début d’une belle frénésie, G. W. Sok
Laurent Kropf (Ed.)
68 pages (fr./engl.)
Published by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne

G. W. Sok was the singer for The Ex from 1979 to 2008, and Laurent Kropf compiled his lyrics in this book deisnged by Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé. This is the first book in a series of publications to be coming out in the next 2 years, and to be assembled in a boxset in the end.

D 11.60€
CH 15chf

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Video Aquarium Broadcast – Simon Denny

This new publication is the first comprehensive book on the work of Simon Denny. In the size of a standardized DVD cover the book features an illustrated overview on Simon Denny’s exhibitions from 2008 to 2010, additional texts by Nicolas Ceccaldi, Simon Pound and an interview with the artist by Dan Arps. The publication is produced in collaboration with Michael Lett.

2010, 268 p., fully illustrated in colour
and b/w, Owrps., 19 x 13,2 cm
Edition 1000
Published by Galerie Daniel Buchholz and Michael Lett

D 28€

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Saturday the 19th of February 2011
Mousse Publishing invites you to an exhibit of their printed production

Torpedo Bookshop / Torpedo Press
Trelastgata 3, Oslo, Norway
from 6.00 pm

Music for the Videos of Lars Laumann.
Concert by Dan-Ola Persson. 8.00 pm

Tell mum everything is ok n°4
Editions FP&CF
143 x 195 mm
80 pages

D 12€

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Title: Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt

Artist: Anne Schwalbe
68 Pages, 30 Color Photographs
21 x 27 cm / 8.27 x 10.63 inch
Edition size: 150, signed and numbered

D 34€