Tan Lin: Bib., Rev. Ed.

Tan Lin, Bib., Rev. Ed. English, 21,6 × 27,9 cm, black-and-white ill., 152 pages, 150 ex. "BIB., REV. ED. is the third version of this ongoing text. The first version appeared as a series of blog entries on Ambient Fiction Reading System 01, and later as an online publication in the Ubu series, Publishing the Unpublishable, edited by Danny Snelson, Brian Kim Stefans and Kenneth Goldsmith. The initial blog runs to October 16, 2007. The Ubu edition runs to October 31, 2007. BIB., REV. ED. runs to July 21, 2008, and also includes an introduction, photographs taken the weekend before the project was sent to press (September 17-18, 2011), and a file history from September 8-12, 2011." – From the publisher. "The work aims to record nearly everything I read in the period(s) in question, detailing the time I read it, the place, sometimes a “tag” on the nature of the content, and sometimes an excerpt of the content itself. The work is a document of reading – not only what was read but the manner in which and the location of things read, which is to say it is a loose and non-systematic procedure for tagging or cataloging and digesting the elements that taken together constitute a reading process or reading environment. This environment of reading does not make it clear what the document itself is, which remains as blurry as reading, regarded as a practice or a system or an emerging genre: is it a catalog, a diary, a work of creative writing, a digest, an autobiography, a bit of typing, a cut and paste job, an example of data mining, an analog version of geo tagging?" – From the author.…