[I posted before about my book Lurid Numbers, a collection of codework texts scheduled to be printed by BlaxeVox, publisher of weird little books, but judged unprintable, despite the best efforts of the publisher to negotiate with the printer, etc. This is fascinating - among other reasons - because it involves a judgment by a computer [...]

Do not print this book (unprintability part 1) Sandy Baldwin What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature? And us… what good are we if we don’t help as much as we can in that destruction? – Julio Cortazar Geoffrey Gatza, fearless director of BlazeVox, that “publisher of weird little books,” took the [...]

Part 1 is here. The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in [...]

Am I permitted to write? The chmod – 777 command opens all files and directories to the world. Set permissions to 777 and anyone can call the system to read, write, and execute. Did you chmod -777? Do you permit me to, do you give permission? To write it to have permission, and this is [...]