AN UPDATED VERSION OF ADOLF HITLER’S TREATISE WITH THE LGBT SLANG WORDS PUT BACK IN BEST READ IN A LOUD GERMAN ACCENT IMAGINING A HITLER WHO HAS FINALLY LOST HIS BATTLE WITH TOURETTE’S. “a display of just how far we have fallen as a society!” “the sheer arrogance of the clearly insane writer” Joe Blake … I’m Kamp
What are you to make of a book that capitalizes the word lord (LORD) when referring to God but just uses plain old lowercase Lord when referring to men’s relationship over women? Where even male animals seem to own the female ones? Upon embarking on this exercise, I thought it would not surprise me to … The Female Bible
Make Money From Betting on Religious Beliefs Using the 2021 UK Population Census – A Guide This book offers a unique exploration of the intersection between religion, gambling, and census data through the lens of the now-defunct Betfair Metaphysical betting exchange. Designed for novelty and metaphysical fun, the exchange allowed participants to place bets on … Census 2021: Your Guide to the Metaphysical Betting Options
Betfair Metaphysical (and the later incarnation The Data Gamble) was project that evolved out of the original Prophette and Shaman Metaphysical Bookmakers. Prophette and Shaman was a satirical street/festival performance piece. Although the exchange is now defunct the bets and outcomes can be viewed on the anonymous betting exchange Betmoose. A Guide to Metaphicial Betting … Betfair Metaphysical
This book creatively combines classic artwork with contemporary pop art and children’s illustrations to bring the ideas to life visually. The author employs a large number of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts and engravings, blending them with emoticons, pop art symbols, and lighthearted elements. This playful visual mashup creates a humorous and entertaining backdrop for the text, making it an approachable starting point for philosophical exploration.
Park book, part installation, this work satirised the naivety of the 1980 United Nations Recommendation on the Status of the Artist. The full text of the recommendation was styled to emphasise the idiosyncratic nature of UN-speak with its endless repetition of stock phrases. The piece was printed on non-archival thermal receipt paper to highlight the corruption of artistic freedom by market forces. The installation consisted of this ‘receipt’ being periodically printed by a standard Point-of-Sale receipt printer, mounted on a plinth. The piece was exhibited as part of the 2015 Sheffield Artists Book Prize.
Through the confessional for cognitive sins Prophette is offering absolution from modern sins in the form of cognitive bias. Both the website and the installation play with the idea of cognitive bias, to get people to admit to these biases and “absolve” them of their “sins”. The idea is to poke fun at this over-hyped area of discussion which reached an apex with the success of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story The Writing of the God, this book presents a collection of randomly generated sentences. Using the original text of Borges’ story as its foundation, each sentence follows a precise structure of fourteen words and forty syllables—reflecting the mysterious “Script of the God” described within the narrative.
