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Cyborg
Cyborg is a cybernetic anti-novel transmitted from the Future.
"The nature of the novel has forever been re-purposed, re-routed and experimented with and upon, over the centuries. Though few have achieved something as specific, direct, harsh, corrosively manic, and brave - as this imagery-based novel that is theologically unashamed in its experimentational form - as R.G Vasicek's cyborg.
What Vasicek has done for this era of authors and great experimenters is, once again like the greatest of experimental/Avante Garde artists do and have done, is show a new way of processing, experiencing, and breaking down a novel - texturally, visually, and metaphysically.
This book is an experience, a corruption of perception and processing, where material information is photographed, processed, altered, repurposed, and evolved - stamped - virally injected - influenza projected - ectoplasmically - onto page, then onto retina, finally into consciousness; a deluge of full-on black ink - built out of glitchy, indistinct, vague photographic forms, resembling processed images, but are evolved inkblots amassing inside the book's interior substructure themselves. Warping. Taking control. Paving a way for yet another literary scene to awaken, to take comfort in the fact that you can write and create as passionately, and as gorgeously as R.G Vasicek does."
- Zak Ferguson (Author of Interiors for ? series)
"The nature of the novel has forever been re-purposed, re-routed and experimented with and upon, over the centuries. Though few have achieved something as specific, direct, harsh, corrosively manic, and brave - as this imagery-based novel that is theologically unashamed in its experimentational form - as R.G Vasicek's cyborg.
What Vasicek has done for this era of authors and great experimenters is, once again like the greatest of experimental/Avante Garde artists do and have done, is show a new way of processing, experiencing, and breaking down a novel - texturally, visually, and metaphysically.
This book is an experience, a corruption of perception and processing, where material information is photographed, processed, altered, repurposed, and evolved - stamped - virally injected - influenza projected - ectoplasmically - onto page, then onto retina, finally into consciousness; a deluge of full-on black ink - built out of glitchy, indistinct, vague photographic forms, resembling processed images, but are evolved inkblots amassing inside the book's interior substructure themselves. Warping. Taking control. Paving a way for yet another literary scene to awaken, to take comfort in the fact that you can write and create as passionately, and as gorgeously as R.G Vasicek does."
- Zak Ferguson (Author of Interiors for ? series)
99 pages, Paperback
Published May 26, 2021
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January 16, 2023
Not sure if this is a novella, a graphic novel, or a piece of art all on its own, undefinable. A cyborg trying to understand their own identity. I reboot. I reboot. I reboot.
September 28, 2022
Brought this on a whim. Wanted some book recommendations, my mate told me he blurbed this and he thought I'd like it. I fucking did. Lovely inkiness and images. A weird one, different. But a good one.
December 25, 2021
dull, basic-bitch images and equally dull text. if this is the future of the novel form like the blurb on the back implies, we are in for one toothless future.
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