r.g. vašíček
@rgvasicek.bsky.social
lo-fi samizdat artist & machine elf
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More lo-fi samizdat for the wandering mind... a n[o]vella of s[o]rts... a text machine... $4.44
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If you think the novel is dead... it really really is. Sort of.
"In this constellation, the novel survives not as a living organism but as a machine-for-the-undead."
David Vichnar on "Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing" in 3:AM mag
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"In this constellation, the novel survives not as a living organism but as a machine-for-the-undead."
David Vichnar on "Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing" in 3:AM mag
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...
Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing – 3:AM Magazine
These books are, in a sense, anti-cultural products: they demand time, patience, and acceptance of incompletion. In doing so, they enact a politics — not of slogans or themes, but of form itself. In p...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you think the novel is dead... it really really is. Sort of.
"In this constellation, the novel survives not as a living organism but as a machine-for-the-undead."
David Vichnar on "Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing" in 3:AM mag
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...
"In this constellation, the novel survives not as a living organism but as a machine-for-the-undead."
David Vichnar on "Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing" in 3:AM mag
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...
“the billions of words that buzzed in my ears rarely unsettled me by what people wanted them to mean; as to all those words I myself uttered to others, I always felt they were distinct from my thinking—for they became unchanging.”
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“the billions of words that buzzed in my ears rarely unsettled me by what people wanted them to mean; as to all those words I myself uttered to others, I always felt they were distinct from my thinking—for they became unchanging.”
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If you didn't think THE COMBINATIONS was difficult enough in English, the Czech translation is reputedly coming soon (only 10 years in the making!)
September 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you didn't think THE COMBINATIONS was difficult enough in English, the Czech translation is reputedly coming soon (only 10 years in the making!)
"What is a diary in this century? An archive of live combat with the self? Aphorisms? Notations? Small detonations of clarity? A mind making a flank attack on its own habits?"
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My Affair with Matthew Gasda – Samuel Forster - ExPat Press
Intimacy is more plausible with a gifted writer you’ve never met than with an idiot whose body you’ve manhandled a thousand times. My affair with Matthew Gasda starts in the Berlin airport. It’s one o...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"What is a diary in this century? An archive of live combat with the self? Aphorisms? Notations? Small detonations of clarity? A mind making a flank attack on its own habits?"
expatpress.com/my-affair-wi...
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"The collision of vasicek's increasingly desperate human voice with siratori's cold, inhuman code enacts the Beckettian themes of linguistic failure, entropy, and the struggle for meaning against aphasic silence..."
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Unpacking R.G. Vasicek vs. Kenji Siratori "Augenblick": Cyborgs, Neoscatology, and the Ultimate War f｜HYPER-ANNOTATION
The Quantum Self: Consciousness, the City, and Cybernetic Identity in "Augenblick"
Augenblick, credited to "r.g. vasicek vs. kenji siratori," is
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Amazon.com
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October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The collision of vasicek's increasingly desperate human voice with siratori's cold, inhuman code enacts the Beckettian themes of linguistic failure, entropy, and the struggle for meaning against aphasic silence..."
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Pretty soon you are paying a hundred bucks a month to carry around a telephone.
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
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Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
MACHINE ELF / Order | Sweat Drenched Press
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October 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Pretty soon you are paying a hundred bucks a month to carry around a telephone.
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
Freedom, they call it.
You pay to be surveilled.
We never escape the Iron Curtain.
Not really.
Agents everywhere…
r.g. vašíček [ @rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
machine elf
sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk/order-1/mach...
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The fictions of Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai are the latest in a rich tradition of allegorical speculation that can be traced back to the ruined visions of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett.
László Krasznahorkai’s universe | Jared Marcel Pollen
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László Krasznahorkai’s universe | Jared Marcel Pollen
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/las...
László Krasznahorkai's universe
The fictions of Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai are the latest in a rich tradition of allegorical speculation that can be traced back to the ruined visions of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett.
engelsbergideas.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The fictions of Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai are the latest in a rich tradition of allegorical speculation that can be traced back to the ruined visions of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett.
László Krasznahorkai’s universe | Jared Marcel Pollen
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/las...
László Krasznahorkai’s universe | Jared Marcel Pollen
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/las...
The Prague Microfestival recently uploaded videos of poetry performances from October 2K24 & 2K23 by Jaromír Typlt & Marek Torčík & Ansgar Allen & Dirk Huelstrunk & Martin Piekar & Julie Morissy & Aifric Mac Aodha & R.G. Vasicek & Radoslaw Jurzak & Filip Klega & Ondřej Hrabal & Tobias Ryan & more!
PragueMicrofestival
PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL (PMF) is an annual festival of the arts, combining contemporary writing with art, film, theory & performance.
PMF is fully bilingual (CZ and EN), and presents readings by the bes...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Prague Microfestival recently uploaded videos of poetry performances from October 2K24 & 2K23 by Jaromír Typlt & Marek Torčík & Ansgar Allen & Dirk Huelstrunk & Martin Piekar & Julie Morissy & Aifric Mac Aodha & R.G. Vasicek & Radoslaw Jurzak & Filip Klega & Ondřej Hrabal & Tobias Ryan & more!
Excerpts from the Prague underground... 404 ERROR & AUGENBLICK... the portal opens... the future infiltrates...
R.G. Vasicek at PMF 2024 (27.10.2024 @ HYB 4, Prague)
YouTube video by PragueMicrofestival
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September 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Excerpts from the Prague underground... 404 ERROR & AUGENBLICK... the portal opens... the future infiltrates...
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It was unscripted.
It was messy.
It was loud.
It was dark.
It was sexual.
It was happening all in the moment.
It is a refuge and a hub.
The whole space develops a character of its own…
A Meaning in Every Room
a video document of Prague Microfestival 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfs...
It was messy.
It was loud.
It was dark.
It was sexual.
It was happening all in the moment.
It is a refuge and a hub.
The whole space develops a character of its own…
A Meaning in Every Room
a video document of Prague Microfestival 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfs...
PMF 2024 video
YouTube video by PragueMicrofestival
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It was unscripted.
It was messy.
It was loud.
It was dark.
It was sexual.
It was happening all in the moment.
It is a refuge and a hub.
The whole space develops a character of its own…
A Meaning in Every Room
a video document of Prague Microfestival 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfs...
It was messy.
It was loud.
It was dark.
It was sexual.
It was happening all in the moment.
It is a refuge and a hub.
The whole space develops a character of its own…
A Meaning in Every Room
a video document of Prague Microfestival 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfs...
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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
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i am a machine poet
EDGE-OF-THE-CONSTRUCT
WRITER
AMERIKA: A SORT OF PSEUDOREALITY
www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
i am a machine poet
EDGE-OF-THE-CONSTRUCT
WRITER
AMERIKA: A SORT OF PSEUDOREALITY
www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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Late Summer Fun Reading! Mostly Everything, plus Loosened Death Rays! Walking with the Wind! The Ways of Paradise! Machine Poetry!
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August 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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...
@mcsweeneys.net @fantagraphics.bsky.social @rgvasicek.bsky.social @archipelagobooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
July 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Q. & A. with RGV about “lo-fi samizdat” & the Prague underground as Tom Bowden arrogantly recommends AUGENBLICK!
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The Book Beat
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July 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Q. & A. with RGV about “lo-fi samizdat” & the Prague underground as Tom Bowden arrogantly recommends AUGENBLICK!
www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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
“Memoirs of a Nobody, Manifesto for Everybody”–Review by Ondřej Polák
This peculiar piece is the product of the collaboration of writer/filmmaker/publisher Zak Ferguson and the “machine poet” RG Vasicek, “crafted – by Prague-ian and Brighton–ian” (84). The text, how…
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June 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"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
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!
June 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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!
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
Paul Giamatti & Stephen Colbert's Love of Books
YouTube video by Pauly Mays
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May 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
"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 🚗🚗🚗
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-J.G. Ballard, Crash
Bookpilled gets crushed by CRASH 🚗🚗🚗
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I've Never Read a Book Like Crash [100 Book Challenge #3-4]
YouTube video by Bookpilled
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May 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"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?...
-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
May 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"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
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."
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ROBOT ROBOT
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April 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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."
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Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: www.academia.edu/129022467/Pa...
Parasitext: Glitches in the Machine-Mind Interface
The narrative of samizdat68: ROBOT ROBOT performs a literature infected with its own referential exhaustion. AI language collapses into recursive soliloquy, shrugging off the human while looping it ad...
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April 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: www.academia.edu/129022467/Pa...
"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)."
"That Harsch has yet to be hailed a genius in his native land is as sure an indictment of the fascism of lazy critics (to paraphrase Edward Bond) as the seditiously-minded ought hope for."
I wrote on the work of Rick Harsch for Erratum & urge you all to read him...
www.erratumpress.com/harsch-noise
I wrote on the work of Rick Harsch for Erratum & urge you all to read him...
www.erratumpress.com/harsch-noise
April 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"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)."
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I call myself on a telephone.
There is no answer.
Samizdat Series: Writer
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There is no answer.
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WRITER
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March 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I call myself on a telephone.
There is no answer.
Samizdat Series: Writer
R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
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There is no answer.
Samizdat Series: Writer
R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ]
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