What do you think?
Rate this book
THE MANIFESTO YOU BROUGHT UNTO YOURSELVES
245 pages, Paperback
Published January 26, 2024
2 people want to read
About the author
Zak Ferguson
41 books9 followersZak Ferguson is an Autistic, mental health-suffering much despised entity, barely a person, just an irritable itch, on the earlobe, on the fringes of your conscious-self; whose reality consists of words, literature and the pretensions garnered from art.
If you like literature that expands your perceptions of art, specifically within literature, that tests your patience, that entices, arouses, annoys, irritates, breaks into your machinations of consuming literature- try and read him; that or at least if you want to try literature that confounds, upsets, and semi-forms itself as entertainment and all such and sundry as accepted and marketed in the full-fledged market place of book-building and publication... then Zak is probably somebody you'd like to beat around the head with, said book, and tell him what a waste of time it was...
If, and this is a BIG if, this is an experience you wish to partake in, if only to get a chance to beat him publicly/privately...read his stuff.
His previous publications have been, EAT YOUR KEYBOARD (no longer available) Mr. Nick (no longer available) A TASTE OF FEELING (no longer available) and his latest, most boundary pushing novel, What Mr. Wants Mr. Gets (which is readily available).
He plans to re-release his Eat Your Keyboard series in the coming future as a huge omnibus titled, THE SYSTEM COMPENDIUM, release date 2020.
A TASTE OF FEELING has also been re-released, alongside its follow up, under the new title, Volatile Voices, Volatile Universe, later this year.
He exists online in some vague form. On INSTAGRAM under some name or other...and TWITTER...under another name based around his issue with sweating... He is also the Editor/Founder/Co-Head of the innovative press Sweat Drenched Press.
( www.www.sweatdrenchedpress.com)
Zak lives in the seaside town of Brighton.
(He doesn't get out much)
If you like literature that expands your perceptions of art, specifically within literature, that tests your patience, that entices, arouses, annoys, irritates, breaks into your machinations of consuming literature- try and read him; that or at least if you want to try literature that confounds, upsets, and semi-forms itself as entertainment and all such and sundry as accepted and marketed in the full-fledged market place of book-building and publication... then Zak is probably somebody you'd like to beat around the head with, said book, and tell him what a waste of time it was...
If, and this is a BIG if, this is an experience you wish to partake in, if only to get a chance to beat him publicly/privately...read his stuff.
His previous publications have been, EAT YOUR KEYBOARD (no longer available) Mr. Nick (no longer available) A TASTE OF FEELING (no longer available) and his latest, most boundary pushing novel, What Mr. Wants Mr. Gets (which is readily available).
He plans to re-release his Eat Your Keyboard series in the coming future as a huge omnibus titled, THE SYSTEM COMPENDIUM, release date 2020.
A TASTE OF FEELING has also been re-released, alongside its follow up, under the new title, Volatile Voices, Volatile Universe, later this year.
He exists online in some vague form. On INSTAGRAM under some name or other...and TWITTER...under another name based around his issue with sweating... He is also the Editor/Founder/Co-Head of the innovative press Sweat Drenched Press.
( www.www.sweatdrenchedpress.com)
Zak lives in the seaside town of Brighton.
(He doesn't get out much)
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
December 15, 2025
This book is a literary collage of pieces to give a "Mental Disorder Dada" manifesto. If you agree with the author's manifesto, it differs from a short story collection by the fact that it's based on pre-existing pieces of art glued together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
"[...] and what do you have? Scraps, scraps, and more scraps. Piece said scraps together and what do you get? Art-in-the-making. Art-in-the-un-making."
Collage is subjectively art made of former less deeper arts in the way that photography or painting transpose only one intention where collages bring meaning from all its constitutive parts.
The graphic collages in the manifesto are really interesting (though the printed version by Amazon isn't of top quality).
The textual parts of the manifesto are uneven. Some I really enjoyed, some others not.
I'm always a sucker for metafiction and I got my fill here.
All in all, it's a good book. Never read anything like it. But I'm not sure I liked it. I was more intrigued than enthralled.
"[...] and what do you have? Scraps, scraps, and more scraps. Piece said scraps together and what do you get? Art-in-the-making. Art-in-the-un-making."
Collage is subjectively art made of former less deeper arts in the way that photography or painting transpose only one intention where collages bring meaning from all its constitutive parts.
The graphic collages in the manifesto are really interesting (though the printed version by Amazon isn't of top quality).
The textual parts of the manifesto are uneven. Some I really enjoyed, some others not.
I'm always a sucker for metafiction and I got my fill here.
All in all, it's a good book. Never read anything like it. But I'm not sure I liked it. I was more intrigued than enthralled.
December 10, 2025
A mental book. Essays that mutate into the most deranged fictional vignettes you'll read. The collages are cool, but as someone who loves playing with prittsticks and old mags and glue they all felt a bit similar.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews