MAY 1, 2011

Free Electronic Distribution

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century
Samuel Madden

Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past?
Liam Gillick

Digitial edition now available in the Apple iBook store for iPad and iPhone users.

SEPT 4, 2010

Book Release At Dexter Sinister

Please come to Dexter Sinister, 38 Ludlow Street (between Hester and Grand) this coming Saturday night, September 4 at 7pm to mark the re-opening of our bookstore under regular Fall hours (Saturdays 12 to 6pm) and to launch two publications and an exhibition.

Larissa Harris, curator of THE CURSE OF BIGNESS at Queens Museum of Art, will lead a gallery tour through a scale model of THE PLASTIC ARTS, a show based on A Note on the Type from the previously mentioned exhibition book and organized by Anthony Elms at University of Illinois Chicago opening two days later which includes a grey painting made sometime previous by Philomene Pirecki that frames the cover of the 20th and final issue of DOT DOT DOT, in which DDD tries -- finally -- to be as direct as possible about what it's come to stand for and what it thinks it's gonna do about it.

In parallel we will present Samuel Madden's MEMOIRS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, re-released by Halmos (Erik Wysocan, New York) with an outroduction by Liam Gillick orginally published in 1999 titled Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past? Whiskey and water will be served.

The currents, once in, must find their way out. . . . .

More: http://www.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=246

Also:
http://shop.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=242&more=1
http://www.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=244
http://shop.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=245&more=1
http://www.halmos.us.com/

SEPT 2, 2010

Paperback: $20.00
Available for sale at Dexter Sinister

SEPT 1, 2010

Free Electronic Distribution

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century
Samuel Madden

Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past?
Liam Gillick

An electronic version is freely available. Download the PDF.

AUG 31, 2010

Press Release

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century
Samuel Madden
&
Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past?
Liam Gillick

HALMOS / ∎ is pleased to announce the release of Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century,available for the first time in over 25 years. This new edition includes Liam Gillick's Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past?

Written in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is widely regarded to contain the earliest known conception of time-travel and, in particular, the first cognitive leap that would allow for a historicized image of the present as seen from the point of view of a distant future. Intriguingly, it is the text itself which is claimed to have traveled back in time and Madden has used this conceit to satirize his own period – tracing out its bureaucratic absurdities into a strange yet pointed vision of the late 20th century: a world politically fraught, overwhelmed with corruption and struggling to reconcile religious faith with scientific discovery.

The mysterious publishing history of the book imparts a certain weight to its claims. Printed anonymously in an edition of 1000, all but 10 copies were immediately destroyed for unknown reasons. It would only be printed once more in 1972 and until now Memoirs... has been extremely scarce – resulting in disappointingly little scholarship. This new edition includes Liam Gillick's Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past first published in 1999, the very year when Memoirs... leaves off. Gillick explores the socio-political implications inherent in strategic attitudes towards the future with a critical eye to the 'scenario planning' of late capitalism. It provides a prescient framework for reconsidering Madden's text now, just over ten years on since its fictive origination and apocalyptic conclusion.

To encourage further study, the complete text will be freely distributed electronically in conjunction with the limited edition hard-cover and a mass-market paperback. ∎