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paperless books a definition (by Yelena Gluzman) A paperless book is the creation of a narrative without the genteel aide of pulp and ink, without the assumption of a sitting room. Paperless books do not need to be published, just pushed out of mind into actions. A paperless book on totems: take your totems and place in public city spots. Allow them to be read and misread. Allow them to be edited (stolen). A paperless book on trust: take 30 babies with their parents and bring them to a public space. Have the loving parents of these 30 babies hand their babies to complete strangers for one minute. A paperless poetry book: type your poems on cigarette papers, which you roll around tobacco and smoke. A paperless book on Americans: go to the desert in Arizona. Find differences in the desert and start naming things. Conjure language and watch it evaporate. A paperless book on Magic: Find “a sight to store away, then conjure up someday when you are no longer together.” The Ugly Duckling Presse herewith lays its claim on all paperless books, and renounces its copyright of the same. a manifesto (by Filip Marinovic) In the illiterate America of the rising wolf pack of fascists it is vital to reconsider the form of the BOOK and to decondition oneself from the language virus in its printed form. The BOOK in its paperless form appears as performance against the context of THE WORD MADE FLESH, THE BODY. LALALALALA. I am also a very good looking person. The paperless book is the naked Shepherd who guards the sheep of Gnosis THE SHEEP WHICH GIVES CLEAN AND STRENGTHENING MILK TO THE PUBLIC in a palatable form as a collective MOBILIZATION OF IMAGINATION. I am also a very good looking person. The paperless book department functions as a constant antithesis to the making of bound books. We could also be known as BOOKS UNBOUND. THE BOOK AFTER YEARS OF BEING STRAPPED TO THE CLIFF OF THE CAUCUSES AND HAVING ITS LIVER EATEN OUT BY THE COMMODITY VULTURE NOW frees itself with the help of a cow in which a woman is trapped, and a traveler, inside which a bologna sandwich is being digested. A traveler who is also good looking, who had red hair, but I'm not exactly sure if he had red hair, so we'd better not talk about him.     Paperless books from UDP LAPA by Daniil Kharms, February 2001, the Milagra Theater at CSV Snow White: a paperless zine based on Donald Barthelme's book, March 2002, The Red Room Theater #8 1/2 based on texts by Daniil Kharms, October 2002, Bowery Poetry Club, & May, 2003, Little Theater at Tonic