Without the Viewer

A book that starts with 'This moment will slip into the back of your mind. It may remain there forever if you are smart enough' and ends with 'Let's start with a happy ending'. Everything in between are random thoughts that crossed our minds and we failed to forget after we returned from the crossing of the Atlantic on the Hanjin Palermo.

The book is out of print, but can be found at the Swiss National Library

Thoughts

Thoughts

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The majority of the thinkers who contributed to this book did so unintentionally. They are all unacknowledged in the body of the text. This reflects the nature of thoughts, often stripped of authorship and appearing out of nowhere. Or, to put it like David Shields, whose book “Reality Hunger” has been an inspiration and source of thoughts: “I am trying to regain a freedom that writers from Montaigne to Burroughs took for granted and that we have lost. Your uncertainty about whose words you’ve just read is not a bug but a feature.”

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The book was completed on September 13, 2012. The book is out of print. A copy can be found in the Swiss National Library or can be downloaded.

The research for the book took place on a boat crossing the Atlantic.

Contributions by: @Phil_Hanley (144), @emilianovaldes (78), Alain de Botton (31, 139), Andrew O'Hehir (39), Anonymos White House Aide (34), Anthony Vidler (79), Apocalypse Now (137), Arthur Schnitzler (94), Boris Groys (47), Boris Vian (106), Brian Eno (114), Camus (86), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (81), Charles Olson (95), D'Agata (42), da Vinci (36), David Shields (16, 44, 89, 90, 93, 109, 118), E. M. Cioran (127), Ernst Jünger (65), Florian Graf (150), G. W. Bush (50), Gallagher (54), Geoffrey O`Brian (100), Georg Trakl (124), Guy Debord (74, 75, 129, 142), Harry S. Truman (125), Holland Cotter (133), Honoré Daumier (140), Ingeborg Bachmann (110, 138), Ingmar Bergman (30), J.G. Ballard (17), Jacques Derrida (68), Joachim Koester (29), Joan Didion (145), John Milton (143), Judit Bodor (72), Ken Kesey (115), László Kardos (28), Lisa Page (91), Lopate (19), Lorenzo Prendini (148), Lucy Lippard (13, 22, 23), Malcolm McLowry (117), Marcel Broodthaers (134), Marlen Haushofer (85, 104), Martha Nussbaum (102), Martin Suter (147), McElwee (82), Michael Moore (87), N.R.Kleinfield (53), Niels van Maanen (46), Nietzsche (37), Paul D. Miller (56), Paul Éluard (49), Paul McCarthy about Vanessa Beecroft (71), Peter Mountford (57), Plato (113), Pope (149), Proust (88), R. P. Blackmur (111), Raban (119), Raphael Gygax (35, 97), Robin Blake (63), Roland Barthes (70), Sarah Silverman (51), Shakespeare (146), Simic (26), Stephan Pashov (24), Steven King (103), The Daily Waster (130), Thomas Bernhard (121), Unknown (73, 101, 128, 151), Werner Herzog (112), and Yoko Ono (45).