@rgvasicek.bsky.social
lo-fi samizdat artist & machine elf https://rgvasicek.com
A super lo-fi samizdat thanks to Tom Bowden for arrogantly recommending the 2K25 Prague-NYC quartet!
i am a machine poet
EDGE-OF-THE-CONSTRUCT
WRITER
AMERIKA: A SORT OF PSEUDOREALITY
www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
Late Summer Fun Reading! Mostly Everything, plus Loosened Death Rays! Walking with the Wind! The Ways of Paradise! Machine Poetry!
@mcsweeneys.net @fantagraphics.bsky.social @rgvasicek.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
Something is in the pipeline...
youtube.com/clip/UgkxMNR...
Q. & A. with RGV about “lo-fi samizdat” & the Prague underground as Tom Bowden arrogantly recommends AUGENBLICK!
www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
"This 'parentless book,' whose protagonist, seemingly both a ghost in the machine and a body of living matter, is in the process of writing a (non)book, presumably, the very book we are given to read, is a direct product of an age where parents have been superseded by algorithms...." -Ondřej Polák
09.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born: "Baldies" with a new and terrifying difference: the Baldies were telepathic!
03.06.2025 23:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Who knew?... Giamatti & Colbert know a thing or 2 about SF... Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Henry Kuttner, A.E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Jack Vance, & Cordwainer Smith
25.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![I've Never Read a Book Like Crash [100 Book Challenge #3-4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o2hsdg7eevkr3wgn6dacv6it/bafkreiar42yakcxumm66b57s3tmsox6j5knkgretcryh2xqkuqb4o3cpcy@jpeg)
"For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.”
-J.G. Ballard, Crash
Bookpilled gets crushed by CRASH 🚗🚗🚗
youtu.be/1LsjOAOaohE?...
"If literature once promised transcendence, ROBOT ROBOT offers immanence to collapse. The writer becomes a vector. The text, a contaminated zone. The reader, a laboratory rat in a semiotics. 'We are forgetting machines.'" -Kenji Siratori
06.05.2025 20:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: “The fucking is a platform. The utterances that occur mid-act—"Do you like that?" "Come & become"—are not speech acts in the classical sense but executable mood-tags within a linguistic operating system."
US: amazon.com/dp/B0CZLD3VVC
UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZLD3VVC
Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: www.academia.edu/129022467/Pa...
30.04.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Since the end of the Cold War, Sovietisation has been displaced by Americanisation on a truly global scale (& anyone who quibbles with that need only speak the sacred word “tariff” aloud thrice to summon the evil genie from its ether)."
12.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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05.04.2025 14:18 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I call myself on a telephone.
There is no answer.
Samizdat Series: Writer
R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
At the Žižkov studio of Michael Rowland...
29.03.2025 14:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Get yr quartet of lo-fi samizdat for the wandering mind!
rgvasicek.com
With Equus Press, Litteraria Pragensia, & Alienist at Prague BookFest...
22.03.2025 13:29 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A TOMB IN H-SECTION
pre/orders are open;)
equuspress dot com
I stare at walls
&
walls stare back.
System creep… oozing into your livingroom through the telescreen.
More lo-fi samizdat for the wandering mind... a n[o]vella of s[o]rts... a text machine... $4.44
US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZPDYMRY
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZPDYMRY
CA: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DZPDYMRY
ES: www.amazon.es/dp/B0DZPDYMRY
Itching to get my hands on this & see how the ink looks on the page, but from the few pics I've seen so far (courtesy David Vichnar) the printed object is everything we'd hoped. If the proofs are OK the book shld be out around April Fools;) For reviews, drop EQUUSPRESS DOT COM a line. More soon!
03.03.2025 22:24 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Who wrote in your diary 10 years ago?
Not you.
But you, 10 years ago…
KROTCH #15
Object:Paradise [ tykosay.bsky.social ]
objectparadise.com/Krotch
all poems are first drafts
KROTCH #16
Object:Paradise [ tykosay.bsky.social ]
objectparadise.com/Krotch
WRITER is lo-fi samizdat @ $4.44, the half-life of infinity
US amazon.com/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
UK amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
CA: amazon.ca/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
ES: amazon.es/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
PL: amazon.pl/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
NL: www.amazon.nl/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
JP: www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
"R.G. Vasicek’s style is a curious beast—raw, fragmented, & pulsing with a kind of jagged, urban surrealism. He leans into the absurd, stitching together disjointed images & letting meaning bleed out of the cracks." -Grok 3
US www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
UK www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DY7YCJ93
...always a delight & a surprise to see my weird micr[o]novels out there in the wild... & a quartet no less! Thank you 🙏 @fatihbalkis.bsky.social !!!
19.02.2025 22:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Armand :: ' Here, alienation is communicated as a mode of incipient paranoia where every point-of-comparison is “always-already” a coordinate in a seemingly infinite conversion programme '::
Atari Space Invaders championships in London, UK in 1981
12.02.2025 16:16 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
