Poetry. In this new work, RE-WRITING FREUD the artist Simon Morris has re-written Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. A computer program randomly selects words, one at a time from Freud's 223,704 word text and begins to reconstruct the entire book, word by word, making a new book with the same words. A virus or process of contagion has been at work, intervening in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, rupturing it and returning it to us in a new order. By subjecting Freud's words to a random re-distribution, meaning is turned into non-meaning and the spectator is put to work to make sense of the new poetic juxtapositions. With a scrupulous formalism, Morris' version of Freud's text follows the conventions of typographic layout found in the 1976 Penguin edition of Freud's work. The publication is edited by Craig Dworkin, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah.

Re-Writing Freud

Morris, Simon

Religion & Spirituality

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Poetry. THE ROYAL ROAD TO THE UNCONSCIOUS was conceived by the artist Simon Morris in order to conduct an experiment on Sigmund Freud's writing. In this action Morris subjected Freud's Interpretation of Dreams to an aleatory moment--a seemingly random act of utter madness--by throwing the entire text, cut up into 223,704 words, out of a car traveling at high speed. Ed Ruscha's project, Royal Road Test (1967), provided Morris with a readymade set of instructions to rupture the syntactical certainty of Freud's construction. The poetic act of liberating Freud's text allows us to engage with Jacques Lacan's register of the real. The psychoanalyst Dr. Howard Britton directed photographers to any slippages or eruptions of the real that occurred in the reconfigured text.

The Royal Road To Unconscious

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Freud on Holiday (v. 1)

Sharon Kivland

Poetry. READING THE REMOVE OF LITERATURE is a reading of Maurice Blanchot's seminal book The Space of Literature, performed on the page as an annotative writing that encircles the should-be space of print. Through the progressive appropriation and then erasure of Blanchot's text, and through a processual transposition of hand-writing into formal typography, Thurston addresses the very question of the possibility of literature that obsessed Blanchot. The meaning of the candid reflections and meditations which form the incisive marginalia is founded in a tension with the suggestions of the absent text. Floating alone these annotations may have little worth or make little sense, but between these covers they do not deny the history of their derivation: They are constantly anchored by that which is missing, in a creative erring, in a process of over-coming, which in this book asserts an equality of presence between the read and the written; the reading and the writing.

Reading the Remove of Literature

Arts & Photography

Thurston, Nick

History & Criticism

Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here, and Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report, by Sarah Jacobs, use text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome. The Report is an ebook which contains links to over 240 websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of ¿The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16¿ ( Vol. 432. December 2004). Its contents change over time as the websites change, migrate or disappear. It is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from the publisher at www.informationasmaterial.com .The Index sets fragments collected from the websites against the background of the earlier draft sequence originally published by Project Gutenberg. The solid physicality of the Index contrasts with the ever changing Report although vagaries of the printing process ensure that each copy of the Index is unique.

Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report

Jacobs, Sarah

Freud on Holiday (v. 2)

Derek Beaulieu

Poetry. HISTORIA ABSCONDITA selects its title, format and purpose from amongst Friedrich Nietzsche's "most personal of all books", Die frohliche Wissenschaft. ("la gaya scienza"). Without a word of his own, Thurston dances with Nietzsche to the song of his aphorisms, re-reading possibility into his classic challenges through a subtle conceptual appropriation. The index of Walter Kaufmann's canonical English translation of The Gay Science provides a site and concealed syntax that Thurston opens anew, by typographically replicating that section and its edition cover but removing the reference locators. The past, present and future influences, on and of Nietzsche, become conceptually unbound in these loose-leaf pages. This book--a chapbook in form and intent--allows the new relations of alphabetised coincidence that emerge to remain joyously unstable, re-fused as they are by two cited aphorisms.

Historia Abscondita (An Index of Joy)

Exercise in Pathetic Criticism

Kate Briggs

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