Category: Publications

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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