Yes... the computer... the computer is open... buzzing... thinking... UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GDPCQQD9 ES: www.amazon.es/dp/B0GDPCQQD9 US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDPCQQD9 FR: www.amazon.fr/dp/B0GDPCQQD9 DE: www.amazon.de/dp/B0GDPCQQD9 PL: www.amazon.pl/dp/B0GDPCQQD9

Further adventures in lo-fi samizdat in 2K26... I wander from Vinohrady into neighboring Žižkov. The novelist in Prague is a dangerous creature. No morality. No allegiance. A hooligan. A vampire of the underground. I lurk at the center of a labyrinth. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDPCQQD9

If you think the novel is dead... it really really is. Sort of. "In this constellation, the novel survives not as a living organism but as a machine-for-the-undead." David Vichnar on "Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing" in 3:AM mag www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...

“the billions of words that buzzed in my ears rarely unsettled me by what people wanted them to mean; as to all those words I myself uttered to others, I always felt they were distinct from my thinking—for they became unchanging.”

If you didn't think THE COMBINATIONS was difficult enough in English, the Czech translation is reputedly coming soon (only 10 years in the making!)

"What is a diary in this century? An archive of live combat with the self? Aphorisms? Notations? Small detonations of clarity? A mind making a flank attack on its own habits?" expatpress.com/my-affair-wi...

"The collision of vasicek's increasingly desperate human voice with siratori's cold, inhuman code enacts the Beckettian themes of linguistic failure, entropy, and the struggle for meaning against aphasic silence..." note.com/kenjisirator...

Pretty soon you are paying a hundred bucks a month to carry around a telephone. Freedom, they call it. You pay to be surveilled. We never escape the Iron Curtain. Not really. Agents everywhere… r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ] machine elf sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...

The fictions of Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai are the latest in a rich tradition of allegorical speculation that can be traced back to the ruined visions of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. László Krasznahorkai’s universe | Jared Marcel Pollen engelsbergideas.com/notebook/las...

The Prague Microfestival recently uploaded videos of poetry performances from October 2K24 & 2K23 by Jaromír Typlt & Marek Torčík & Ansgar Allen & Dirk Huelstrunk & Martin Piekar & Julie Morissy & Aifric Mac Aodha & R.G. Vasicek & Radoslaw Jurzak & Filip Klega & Ondřej Hrabal & Tobias Ryan & more!

Excerpts from the Prague underground... 404 ERROR & AUGENBLICK... the portal opens... the future infiltrates...

It was unscripted. It was messy. It was loud. It was dark. It was sexual. It was happening all in the moment. It is a refuge and a hub. The whole space develops a character of its own… A Meaning in Every Room a video document of Prague Microfestival 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfs...

A super lo-fi samizdat thanks to Tom Bowden for arrogantly recommending the 2K25 Prague-NYC quartet! i am a machine poet EDGE-OF-THE-CONSTRUCT WRITER AMERIKA: A SORT OF PSEUDOREALITY www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Late Summer Fun Reading! Mostly Everything, plus Loosened Death Rays! Walking with the Wind! The Ways of Paradise! Machine Poetry! @mcsweeneys.net @fantagraphics.bsky.social @rgvasicek.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

Something is in the pipeline... youtube.com/clip/UgkxMNR...

Q. & A. with RGV about “lo-fi samizdat” & the Prague underground as Tom Bowden arrogantly recommends AUGENBLICK! www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

"This 'parentless book,' whose protagonist, seemingly both a ghost in the machine and a body of living matter, is in the process of writing a (non)book, presumably, the very book we are given to read, is a direct product of an age where parents have been superseded by algorithms...." -Ondřej Polák

The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born: "Baldies" with a new and terrifying difference: the Baldies were telepathic!

Who knew?... Giamatti & Colbert know a thing or 2 about SF... Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Henry Kuttner, A.E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Jack Vance, & Cordwainer Smith

"For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.” -J.G. Ballard, Crash Bookpilled gets crushed by CRASH 🚗🚗🚗 youtu.be/1LsjOAOaohE?...

"If literature once promised transcendence, ROBOT ROBOT offers immanence to collapse. The writer becomes a vector. The text, a contaminated zone. The reader, a laboratory rat in a semiotics. 'We are forgetting machines.'" -Kenji Siratori

Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: “The fucking is a platform. The utterances that occur mid-act—"Do you like that?" "Come & become"—are not speech acts in the classical sense but executable mood-tags within a linguistic operating system." US: amazon.com/dp/B0CZLD3VVC UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZLD3VVC

Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: www.academia.edu/129022467/Pa...

"Since the end of the Cold War, Sovietisation has been displaced by Americanisation on a truly global scale (& anyone who quibbles with that need only speak the sacred word “tariff” aloud thrice to summon the evil genie from its ether)."

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I call myself on a telephone. There is no answer. Samizdat Series: Writer R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ] www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY7YCJ93

...yet another micr[o]track from the Machine Poets of Žižkov

At the Žižkov studio of Michael Rowland...

Get yr quartet of lo-fi samizdat for the wandering mind! rgvasicek.com

With Equus Press, Litteraria Pragensia, & Alienist at Prague BookFest...

A TOMB IN H-SECTION pre/orders are open;) equuspress dot com

I stare at walls & walls stare back. System creep… oozing into your livingroom through the telescreen.

More lo-fi samizdat for the wandering mind... a n[o]vella of s[o]rts... a text machine... $4.44 US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZPDYMRY UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZPDYMRY CA: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DZPDYMRY ES: www.amazon.es/dp/B0DZPDYMRY

Itching to get my hands on this & see how the ink looks on the page, but from the few pics I've seen so far (courtesy David Vichnar) the printed object is everything we'd hoped. If the proofs are OK the book shld be out around April Fools;) For reviews, drop EQUUSPRESS DOT COM a line. More soon!

Who wrote in your diary 10 years ago? Not you. But you, 10 years ago… KROTCH #15 Object:Paradise [ tykosay.bsky.social ] objectparadise.com/Krotch

all poems are first drafts KROTCH #16 Object:Paradise [ tykosay.bsky.social ] objectparadise.com/Krotch

WRITER is lo-fi samizdat @ $4.44, the half-life of infinity US amazon.com/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 UK amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 CA: amazon.ca/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 ES: amazon.es/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 PL: amazon.pl/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 NL: www.amazon.nl/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 JP: www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0DY7YCJ93

"R.G. Vasicek’s style is a curious beast—raw, fragmented, & pulsing with a kind of jagged, urban surrealism. He leans into the absurd, stitching together disjointed images & letting meaning bleed out of the cracks." -Grok 3 US www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY7YCJ93 UK www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DY7YCJ93

...always a delight & a surprise to see my weird micr[o]novels out there in the wild... & a quartet no less! Thank you 🙏 @fatihbalkis.bsky.social !!!

diffractionscollective.com/2025/02/16/a... Armand :: ' Here, alienation is communicated as a mode of incipient paranoia where every point-of-comparison is “always-already” a coordinate in a seemingly infinite conversion programme '::

... forty-two second micr[o]track by The Machine Poets of Žižkov

Atari Space Invaders championships in London, UK in 1981

EDGE-OF-THE-CONSTRUCT is 5 ounces 105 pages of delish lo-fi samizdat for $4.44 & an infinity of meanings You're in the poet army, now US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWT1FN3B UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWT1FN3B ES: www.amazon.es/dp/B0DWT1FN3B CA: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DWT1FN3B DE: www.amazon.de/dp/B0DWT1FN3B

"You’re watching a film in which the protagonist is driving through a city, trying to escape. Eventually they reach the end-of-the-road & a starkly abstract Cartesian grid extends into infinite space" ALGORITHMIC STATE APPARATUS (Journal of Communication and Languages) (PDF) ↓

I feel my fingers vibrate. Thumbnails. Amerika & Žižkov. The Spacebar of the Typewriter Machine. What is the State of Mind of the Samizdat People? $3.88 lo-fi samizdat US www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVGZ6X19 UK www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVGZ6X19 ES www.amazon.es/dp/B0DVGZ6X19 JP www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0DVGZ6X19

"The Greatness Of My Techniques Whose Forging In The Frozen Tundras Are / Envious Of The Most Ferocious Ussuri" -- my review of John Trefry's MASSIVE (@incastellated), just up at @press_erratum... www.erratumpress.com/the-greatnes...

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