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The Kafka Chronicles: A Novel

Now in multiple printings, The Kafka Chronicles is an adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters a cast of angry yet sensual characters: Alkaloid Boy and Blue Sky, an inconspicuous and loving couple who find themselves subjected to constant …

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In Memoriam To Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop

This collection of irreverent, bold, and challenging cutting-edge essays explores the cultural phenomenon of “avant-pop.”  Originally “published” on the World Wide Web at the Alt-X publishing site in the spring of 1995, this collection now appears as a physical book you can hold in your hand, throw at the wall or immortalize in your private …

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Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category

Co-edited with postmodern virtuoso Ronald Sukenick, Mark Amerika’s Degenerative Prose is outlaw writing with a terrorist heart. The missives published here represent an explosive mix of avant-pop fiction, e-mail viruses, anti-aesthetic manifestoes, dissident comix, aberrant essays, eloquent rants, mock interviews, and phony contributor notes. An interventionist attack on the banality of mainstream culture, Degenerative Prose …

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How To Be An Internet Artist

How To Be An Internet Artist is Mark Amerika’s premiere collection of Internet fictions. One of the most-celebrated digital artists of our time, Amerika uses this hybridized print and e-book to distribute this eclectic mix of pseudo-autobiographical fictions that explore many of the themes generated in his internationally-exhibited net art, including hypertextual consciousness, cyborg-narrators, reality …

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