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| − | ''' | + | '''Textz.com''' is a warez database for texts. Its first iteration was run by [[Sebastian Lütgert]]/ROLUX from 2001 with the slogan »we are the & in copy & paste«. The website has been relaunched on 22 March 2020. |
In the earlier version, one could find text with and without copyright, fictional and theoretical texts, manifestos, articles and song lyrics. Texts by [[Theodor W. Adorno]] side by side with texts by the autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, Douglas Adams appeared next to [[Klaus Theweleit]] and [[Kathy Acker]]. The texts originated from various sources. They were submitted by authors themselves, supplied to the textz.com database by various online collaborators as freely circulating texts on the Net, or were scanned in from printed media page by page, processed via a text recognition program, and transformed into ASCII files. | In the earlier version, one could find text with and without copyright, fictional and theoretical texts, manifestos, articles and song lyrics. Texts by [[Theodor W. Adorno]] side by side with texts by the autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, Douglas Adams appeared next to [[Klaus Theweleit]] and [[Kathy Acker]]. The texts originated from various sources. They were submitted by authors themselves, supplied to the textz.com database by various online collaborators as freely circulating texts on the Net, or were scanned in from printed media page by page, processed via a text recognition program, and transformed into ASCII files. | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Pad.ma]] | * [[Pad.ma]] | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* [https://textz.com/ Website] | * [https://textz.com/ Website] | ||
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* [https://runme.org/project/+pngreader/index.html pngreader], 2003. [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/pngreader/] | * [https://runme.org/project/+pngreader/index.html pngreader], 2003. [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/pngreader/] | ||
* [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/walser-php/ walser.php], 2002 | * [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/walser-php/ walser.php], 2002 | ||
| − | * [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/05/27/repertorium_textz_com/ Memory of the World] | + | * [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/05/27/repertorium_textz_com/ Memory of the World repertorium] |
* [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/textz-com/biography/ MediaArtNet] | * [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/textz-com/biography/ MediaArtNet] | ||
[[Series:File sharing]] [[Series:Net culture]] [[Series:Software art]] [[Series:Shadow libraries]] | [[Series:File sharing]] [[Series:Net culture]] [[Series:Software art]] [[Series:Shadow libraries]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:19, 26 October 2025
Textz.com is a warez database for texts. Its first iteration was run by Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX from 2001 with the slogan »we are the & in copy & paste«. The website has been relaunched on 22 March 2020.
In the earlier version, one could find text with and without copyright, fictional and theoretical texts, manifestos, articles and song lyrics. Texts by Theodor W. Adorno side by side with texts by the autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, Douglas Adams appeared next to Klaus Theweleit and Kathy Acker. The texts originated from various sources. They were submitted by authors themselves, supplied to the textz.com database by various online collaborators as freely circulating texts on the Net, or were scanned in from printed media page by page, processed via a text recognition program, and transformed into ASCII files.
Contents
Publications[edit]
- a.s.ambulanzen, "napster was only the beginning. an introduction to http://textz.com", Rohrpost, 15 March 2001.
- Vali Djordjevic, "Nützliche Tools für den Netzintellektuellen. Minordomo und textz.com aus dem Hause Rolux" [Useful tools for intellectual Web users. Minordomo and textz.com by Rolux], Telepolis, 23 July 2001.
- Rachel Greene, "Open Books", Artforum 41:10, Summer 2003, p 52, JPG.
- A.S.Ambulanzen, "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction", textz.com, 2004; repr., Makeworlds 4, 2004.
- Holger Kube Ventura, Sebastian Lütgert, "Copyright Madness", Mute 1:28, 13 July 2004.
- Inke Arns, "Read_me, run_me, execute_me. Code als ausführbarer Text: Softwarekunst und ihr Fokus auf Programmcodes als performative Texte", MedienKunstNetz, 2004. (German)
- "Read_me, run_me, execute_me: Code as Executable Text: Software Art and its Focus on Program Code as Performative Text", trans. Donald Kiraly, MediaArtNet, 2004.
- "Read_Me, Run_Me, Execute_Me: Malaise dans le logiciel ou 'C’est la performativité du code, idiot!'", in Art ++, ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud, Orléans: HYX, 2011, pp 143ff. (French)
- "The Society of Intellectual Property", textz.com, 2005.
- Janneke Adema, "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing", Open Reflections blog, Sep 2009.
- Daniel Snelson, "Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com", ch 1 in Snelson, Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database (PhD thesis), University of Pennsylvania, 2015, pp 25-58; upd. as "Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com", ch. 1 in Snelson, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats, Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 2025. Publisher. [1]
Events[edit]
- The Oil of the 21st Century. Perspectives on Intellectual Property, series of events held in at the Wiederaufbau für Kreditanstalt in Berlin, Umeå and Mumbai, 18 October-22 December 2007.
See also[edit]
Links[edit]
- Website
- Website (archived 2006)
- Textz.com: Copy Adorno, go to Jail?, 2004. [2]
- pngreader, 2003. [3]
- walser.php, 2002
- Memory of the World repertorium
- MediaArtNet
