Nonexistence

by Kenji Siratori

"All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my nervous system. The shards from a googleplex of infobits seem to be stuck in the part of my brain just above the pineal gland. Yes, I've just been reading Kenji Siratori again. This is my idea of a good time." — RU Sirius“What Kenji Siratori achieves with his polywaves of interlocking paraphrasing, is the opportunity to rase to the ground antiquated rhetoric, and give world literature the prefect blank foundation in which to bring about a whole new phraseology.”— GX Jupitter-Larsen"Kenji Siratori breaks new ground that others only dream.”— Alan Sondheim“I am disillusioned at the paradise apparatus of the human body pill and with this disillusion we’re plunged into Kenji Siratori’s latest literary cataclysm. To call this “the new book”, or compare it with other books is to do it a massive disservice and to cripple other books. This is a book in the way Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch” was a book, or Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” was a piece of music. “non-existence” is a revolutionary plunge through intense linguistic mutation that rapes the surrealism of Jarry and decadence of Huysmans along the way, then fuses the corpses with the conceptual meta-fear of Ballard’s “Atrocity Exhibition” and the utter gene-blurred futuro-rants of Steve Aylett. It challenges you to leave all you understand and trust at the pod-door and be collapsed then expanded by Siratori’s hyper-speed vision. This isn’t your father’s “sci-fi”. This is cut-up Gyson that takes the edict of “destroy all rational thought” over the edge into a realm of brutality and experimentation previously unknown. This is the “new” that you never knew was there, and, like all things so totally new, it forces us to rethink our idea of “novel”, “life” and, in the end, even “Art”. Welcome to “non-existence”.— Jared Louche of CHEMLAB"Kenji is a madman, for sure, but if you scan his hallucinatory textual mashups in just the right frame of mind, they begin to make sense. And that's the scary part."—Douglas Rushkoff ___________________________Kenji Siratori (born 1975 March 13 in Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan) is a cyberpunk author known for experimental prose and nonlinear narrative. His first book, Blood Electric, was published in 2002. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie. He is part of the bizarro movement in literature

Paperback

First published December 2, 2006

About the author

A Japanese avant-garde artist who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by Dennis Copper, David Bowie. And he collaborated with David Toop, Andrew Liles. Recent books are HACK_ (2011), Googleplex Otakky (2012), Witzelsucht (2012), Cruel Akihabara Eroguro Mutants (2013), Mononoke Vibration (2013).

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

i didn't end up reading this book because when i opened it up, i saw that it was actually a code to rewire your brain. some of the text goes like, "terror tear=cytoplasm gene-duv of the drug fetus of the trash sense to the modem=heart of the hybrid corpse mechanism that turned on technojunkies' ill-treatment is aspirated acid guerilla to the paradise apparatus of the human body pill cruel emulator abolition world-codemaniacs that was processed data=mutant@ultra-machinery tragedy-ROM creature..." it goes on and on like that for pages. endless pages of mental hard-drive-overloading syntaxlessness.

[Julie K Nguyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The lines of codes that make up physical structures/intangible emotions that I wouldn't be able to comprehend once I passed over as a formless entity traveling through space. Kenji Siratori created the horror that I may or may not be able to recognize beyond my current state.

[Bradley Milton]

Makes sense.