CODEXKAMMER is a miniature lending library installed in conjunction with Semiospectacle Nº 2. Its collection was assembled by co-curators Danny Snelson and Mashinka Firunts. Texts are on loan from the Onyx Reading Room. Titles chosen for inclusion are listed below.
Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, eds. The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
Kenneth Anger. Hollywood Babylon. Straight Arrow Books, 1975.
Kenneth Anger. Hollywood Babylon II. E. P. Dutton, 1984.
David Antin. Radical Coherency. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Umbro Apollonio, ed. Futurist Manifestos. MFA Publications, 2001.
Rudolf Arnheim. Radio. Ayer Company, Publishers, Inc., 1986.
Antonin Artaud. The Theater and its Double. Grove Press, 1958.
Artists’ Theatre New York. Artists’ Theatre New York: Four Plays. Grove Press, 1960.
J L Austin. How to Do Things with Words. Harvard University Press, 1962.
Roland Barthes. Mythologies. Hill & Wang, 1972.
Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text. Hill & Wang, 1975.
Georges Bataille. Visions of Excess: Selected Writing, 1927-1939. University of Minnesota Press, 1985.
Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Salome. Dover, 1967.
Walter Benjamin. The Arcades Project. Havard University Press, 1999.
Charles Bernstein. Shadowtime. Green Integer, 2005.
Claire Bishop, ed. Participation. Whitechapel, 2006.
Pierre Bourdieu. Language and Symbolic Power. Harvard University Press, 1991.
Jerry Bowles and Tony Russell, eds. This Book is a Movie: An Exhibition of Language Art & Visual Poetry. Dell, 1971.
Bertolt Brecht. The Threepenny Opera. Grove Press, 1960.
Noël Burch. Life to Those Shadows. University of California Press, 1990.
Claude Cahun. Disavowals: Or, Cancelled Confessions. MIT Press, 2007.
Michel de Certeau. The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, 1984.
Andrei Codrescu. The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess. Princeton University Press, 2009.
A M J Crawford. Morpheu. BlazeVOX, 2009.
Beth Day. This Was Hollywood. Doubleday, 1960.
Guy Debord. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. Verso, 1990.
Guy Debord. The Society of the Spectacle. Zone Books, 1995.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
Craig Dworkin, ed. The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics. Roof Books, 2008.
Umberto Eco. A Theory of Semiotics. Indiana University Press, 1976.
Mashinka Firunts, ed. Semiospectacle: A Literary Revue (exhibition catalogue). Columbia University, 2010.
RoseLee Goldberg. Performa 09: Back to Futurism. Performa, 2011.
RoseLee Goldberg. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Kenneth Goldsmith. Fidget. Coach House Books, 2000.
Kenneth Goldsmith. Soliloquy. Granary Books, 2001.
Nelson Goodman. Languages of Art. Hackett Publishing Company, 1976.
Mel Gordon, ed. Dada Performance. PAJ Publications, 1987.
Charles Higham. Ziegfeld. Henry Regnery Co., 1972.
James Hoff and Danny Snelson. Inventory Arousal. Bedford Press, 2011.
Alfred Jarry. Exploits & Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel. Exact Change, 1996.
Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. University of California Press, 1994.
Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead. Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde. MIT Press, 1992.
John F. Kasson. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. Hill & Wang, 1978.
Friedrich Kittler. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford University Press, 1999.
Richard Kostelanetz, ed. Scenarios: Scripts to Perform. Assembling Press, 1980.
L is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for A Clever Tongue. Chronicle Books, 2008.
Greil Marcus. Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press, 1989.
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. HardWired, 1996.
José Esteban Muñoz. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson, eds. Curating and the Educational Turn. De Appel, 2010.
Avital Ronell. The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
Jerome Rothenberg, ed. Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry, 1914-1945. Seabury Press, 1974.
Rudy Rucker, Peter Wilson, Robert Wilson, eds. Semiotext(e) SF. Semiotext(e), 1989.
Paul Schmidt, trans. The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems. New York Review Books, 2007.
Joshua Sofaer. The Many Headed Monster: The Audience of Contemporary Performance. Live Art Development Agency, 2009.
Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein Lectures in America. Random House, 1935.
Philippe Vergne. Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. Walker Arts Center, 2000.
Hannah Weiner and Patrick Durgin. Hannah Weiner’s Open House. Kenning Editions, 2007.
Allen S. Weiss. Phantasmic Radio. Duke University Press, 1995.
