Book & CD Official Report On The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies Of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 – Soundtrack CD by Wormwood

This release is 163 page paperback book, with an accompanying CD soundtrack, with digital download! TRS109 is a conceptual collaboration between cult Japanese author, Kenji Siratori, the Canadian electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, and a host of well known academics, writers, and other members of the Ministry Of Transrational Research Into Anastrophic Manifolds!

The “Official Report On The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies Of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3” is an AI generated, xenopoetic “glitch novel” of sorts, with a good portion of the book also given over to a randomly written and ordered set of strange and beautiful footnotes that were submitted by the 60+ members of the Ministry. This is a futuristic work on all fronts, and in order to contrast with the digitally obtrusive writing, and to play into our belief in“technological mutualism”, our packaging design and visual aesthetic is of a more analogue and DIY, old school cut and paste nature. What we have here then is a work of art that bridges past and future, but is firmly embedded in the NOW!

For the standard version every 163 page, paperback copy comes with a groundbreaking, and mysteriously original electro-acoustic, “soundtrack” on CD by Canadian electro-acoustic duo Wormwood. Big thanks to Professor Andrew Wenaus of Western University in Ontario, Canada,  for curating the incredible selection of contributing writers, and for making this amazingly futuristic conceptual project a reality!

>>>THE CONCEPT:

“The result is a work of xenopoetic emergence: a beautifully absurd, alien document scintillating with strange potency. Bringing Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 is a xenopoetic data/dada anthology that documents the activities of the artist collective The Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds. The anthology results from an experimental approach to impersonal literary composition. Similar to surrealist definitions, but on the scale of a technical document, members of the Ministry-poets, musicians, novelists, painters, curators, artists, scientists, philosophers, and physicians-were asked to offer a microfiction, poem, essay, fictional citation, or computer code, in the form of a footnote or annotation to a glitch-generated novel by iconoclastic Japanese artist Kenji Siratori; however, each participant wrote their contribution without any access to or knowledge about the nature of Siratori's source text. After collecting the contributions, the "footnotes" were each algorithmically linked to an arbitrary word from Siratori's novel. Bringing together algorithmically and Al-generated electronic literature with analogue collage and traditional modes of literary composition, the Ministry refuses to commit solely to digital, automated, or analogue art and instead seeks technological mutualism and a radically alien future for the arts.

Accompanied by a groundbreaking original score by electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, the anthology offers the radical defamiliarization and weird worlds of science fiction, but now the strangeness bites back on the level form. Readers should expect to discover strange portals from which new ways of thinking, feeling, and being emerge. A conceptual and experimental anthology, Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori inaugurates collective xenopoetic writing and the conceit that the future of art will consist of impersonal acts of material emergence, not personal expression. Consume with caution.”

Andrew Wenaus

>>> EARLY REVIEWS:

"It is only fitting that a book as exorbitant and unhinged as this be accompanied by the most pedestrian of endorsements. Something nice and straightforward, communicating basic facts in plain language with no redundancy, silliness, or puns. For instance, The Official Report on the Intransitionalist Topologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 renegotiates the distinction between information and noise; dramatises problems of reference through topological analysis and transduction; explores paratext as a site of poetic intervention; posits reading as possession, decryption, or apophenia; and forecasts human-machine symbiosis as the future of literary experimentation. It is 163 pages long and contains forty-eight occurrences of the word 'telepathy', fourteen of 'fate', and five of 'lacking'. It will take an average human reader approximately three and a half hours to complete."

-Amy Ireland, URBANOMIC

"Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori, written by chronotopologist, hypermorphicist, anastrophicist and negentropist, Kenji Siratori, the Japanoisic übermensch of glitch poetics, with its dramatis personae (Appel, Armand, Barrick, Barwin, Beard, Betts, Bök, Bonsall, Bouscheljong, Chenut, Christmass, Christopher, Contra, Corrao, Dent, Di Filippo, Ferguson, Herrick, Hickman, Hyett, Isis, Joron, Kelso, Klingler, Lovasz, Lukes, Malinowska, Manley, Matsumoto,  Mc Aloran, Mcluhan, Noon, Osman, Prasai, Prime, Rice, Rivas, Roden, Yeager, Shakowski, Schneider, Shipley, Siratori, Smith, Snodgrass, Sokolov, Sondheim, Spiegel, Svec, VanderMeer, Vasicek, AC. Wenaus, W. Wenaus, Wennekers, Willatt, Williams, Wilson, Wilt) in a sous rature of 153 footnotes from these “Official Members of the Ministry of Transrational Research Into Anastrophic Manifolds” under the patamathematical leadership of Ministry Director Andrew C. Wenaus, is a posthuman chef-d'œuvre in its autoglossolalia, thanatotics, somniloquies and in an “invariant homeomorphic plasticity” whose “Siratori Signals” with their “spikey polyhedral surfaces” are being “marionetted by an invisible xenoforce.” Preordained and intercepted in 2084, Chronotopologies is a cult classic cum “super-détournement,” whose hyperstitional innovations don the new blazon, x(t)=■∞-1. "

—Daniel Y. Harris, author of The Posthuman Series, (Volumes I-V, BlazeVOX)

This release will be available for purchase at our Bandcamp page on Friday, September 1st, at 10AM, California time. Please purchase it there…

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This release will ship the week of September 8th, 2023

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