manifesto

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Cover Versions: The Communist Manifesto in Cabinet magazine, issue 4, Fall.

cover versions - page spread

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derived from MANIFEST, Tim Brennan and Geoff Cox, 46liverpoolst.org [now offline] with Adrian Ward

Press Release:
A reprint of the first edition of the 'Communist Manifesto' (German) first printed in 1848 juxtaposed with screen shots of a custom-built web browser version (English). The book will encourage people to visit the website www.46LiverpoolSt.org where links will be found to contextual information, and from where the specially-built web browser can be freely downloaded.
MANIFEST takes its cue from the collage tradition but rather than producing a 'postmodern' assemblage in this case borrows from a single source and reorders the material into linear sequence. It operates as a facsimile of the original, conceiving 'historical understanding as an afterlife of that which is understood, whose pulse can still be felt in the present' (Benjamin, 'Edward Fuchs, Collector and Historian'). The book is a response to the paradoxes of theory and action, simply to represent what is already known but remains unimplemented.
With help from a grant from the Barry Amiel and Norman MelburnTrust.
ISBN 1 870736486, 146X214mm, 48pp. 46 Illustrations (23 screen shots/23 reproduced photocopies) Paperback brown utility card, perfect bound with spine, 1 colour cover, matt
(GBP 1.70) Cost Price
PUBLISHED by Working Press