Poetry | $12 ($10 direct from UDP)
Saddle-stitched. 36 pp
ISBN 978-1-933254-10-4
Distribution: Direct Only
Series: EEPS

Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza is published by studioRADIA in conjunction with Ugly Duckling Presse.

The eagerly awaited first volume of Eugene Ostashevsky’s DJ Spinoza Cycle, Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza is also a polychromatic collaboration with the New York visual artist Eugene Timerman, and the duo’s answer to artist-and-poet books of 1920s European avant-garde. Two Eugenes are better than one!  

Eugene Ostashevsky’s describes the DJ Spinoza Cycle: "The project is essentially about the shortcomings of rationalism, and was inspired in equal measure by comic books, Spinoza and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. I started working on it after I read Spinoza’s Ethics, whose project of constructing an axiomatic system that would be a theory of everything, and of doing so in natural language with all its inconsistencies and ambivalence, I found to be very funny."

Steff Geissbuhler on Eugene Timerman: "Eugene Timerman is a designer and researcher, exploring and finding new visual expressions and vocabularies. He expresses himself like an architect, musician, storyteller, scientist, modernist, futurist, comedian and cartoonist. At times we recognize his Russian Constructivist ancestors, but also the De Stijl movement, emanating in Holland. Adrian Frutiger, one of the most influential type designers, has been a major influence. At other times the starting points or end results seem rooted in American pop culture."

NEWS AND REVIEWS

07.05.10 | Eugene Ostashevsky profiled on Green Integer’s Project for Innovative Poetry blog

04.07.07 | Download an mp3 of Infinite Recursor reading at Bowdoin College

04.07.07 | Reading of the entirety of Infinite Recursor at Bowdoin College

12.21.06 | Infinite Recursor reviewed at rhubarb is susan

Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-born American poet from New York City. His debut poetry collection, Iterature, displays the dissonant rhythms, heavy unexpected rhymes, and multilingual puns that occupied him at the turn of the century, as well as a healthy interest in mathematics. The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza employs characters such as MC Squared, Peepeesaurus, the Begriffon and, of course, DJ Spinoza, to explore the shortcomings of axiomatic systems with the insouciance and energy of Saturday-morning cartoons. He has edited an English-language anthology of Russian absurdist writings of the 1930s by such authors as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms. His PhD dissertation was on the history of zero. He teaches the humanities at New York University.