William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaug - Agrippa: a book of the dead
A collaboration between the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the author William Gibson, this book is designed to self-destruct on use. A computer floppy disk encrypted with a virus contains an autobiographical text by William Gibson relating to the death of his father when the author was aged six, triggered by the discovery of his father’s old photograph album, a type marketed by Kodak in the 1920s under the name ‘Agrippa’. When the disk is viewed, the words of the story begin scrolling up the screen at a preset speed, the virus corrupting all the data. The first ‘reading’ of the disk is therefore also the last. The disk is contained in a cut-out portion of the book and is accompanied by a 46 page ‘text’ of DNA code and a series of copperplate etchings by Ashbaugh representing images of human genes, the latter printed in ink designed to rub off if touched which echoes the book’s theme of decay. Held in a dark slate-grey case with a base of honeycombed board reinforced with wire wire mesh and distressed paper, treated to simulate corrosion and fire damage.
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jonathanmarcus:
‘Atlas Shrugged’ From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years.
“With each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that “Atlas Shrugged” [decried] in 1957.”
You can download the book in PDF Form, or Mp3 Audio Book here
Note: Don’t feel bad, She’s dead.](http://1.media.tumblr.com/MePSs4msXingil66Cbuuf9opo1_400.jpg)
