Work

Title

Re-Editioned Texts: Heart of Darkness

Author

Stephanie Syjuco

Date

2011

Description

Twelve different paperback copies of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, reprinted using text files downloaded from different online sources. As unique copies, the interior text is modified by the digitization of the novel – some include Google ads, mistakes, and mistranslations of the original.

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Statement

Conrad's 1899 novel was a layered narrative exploration of colonialism, a search for a shadowy figure in a "Heart of Darkness." By creating physical books from digital files, the text further becomes modified, adding a layer of distance, mistranslation, but perhaps also functions as an inadvertent rewriting.

URL

www.stephaniesyjuco.com/p_phantoms.html

Medium

Book, Ebook, Document, Website

Volumes

10

Size

10,8 x 17,48 cm

Technology

Print on Demand

Platform

Lulu

Download

Heart of Darkness - Project Gutenberg's version (775kb)

Source Materials

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526, 1899.

Extra

Syjuco also made three re-editioned versions of Fahrenheit 451

Keywords

appropriation, bookness, collection, digital, distribution, interface, materiality, public domain, writing

Added

ID

966