ED STECK SPECIAL

$ 25.00 $ 34.00

This bundle includes the 2019 release An Interface For Fractal Landscape and The Garden, from 2013, specially wrapped and at a discounted price. Readers can see how Steck's ecological concerns, experiments with disrupted technical texts, and exploration of the tension between organic and virtual terrains, have developed across these books.

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AN INTERFACE FOR A FRACTAL LANDSCAPE

This book takes its cues from a variety of media, including concrete poetry, artists’ books, science fiction, nature poetry, and information science. Interface... follows the experience of an inorganic life form attempting to recreate a relationship between organism and landscape on an outmoded server in the era of post-anthropocene collapse.

"An Interface for a Fractal Landscape is the catalogue of a virtual Genesis, an artifact from the future, a technical manual for the post-organic. Endlessly fascinating, utterly unique."

— TOM SWETERLITSCH

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THE GARDEN: SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT FOR ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION

Composed in part from technical military intelligence text, Ed Steck’s The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation is a formally complex representation of cultural brain damage, the damage left by war in language and thought.

"Ed Steck’s Garden is an insane composition, a landscape of buzzed authoritative ventilation... Ed Steck is the last sane being in America. The Garden is not a safe place."

—ANSELM BERRIGAN

Excerpt:

The garden is a figment simultaneously in chorus as synthetic, marketable and utopist; materialist, naturalist, and public; melancholic, solid, and minimal; baroque, isolated, and somnambulant; one-dimensional, inaccessible, and stationary; architectural, serial, and regulatory. The garden is an entrance. The garden is a complicated hinge.