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[Louis Armand @LouisArmxnd]

THE COMBINATIONS came out 10 yrs ago. Here's the 1st & 4th editions + the typescript. PDF via my site. ;)

[𒐪 D҉I҉F҉F҉R҉A҉C҉T҉I҉O҉N҉S҉ 𒐪 @dif_fractions]

Federico Nieto :: The catastrophist trend in AI is a cleverly disguised anthropomorphizing trend. It signals a return to 20th-century psychoanalysis to build a spectacular narrative compatible with current tech's limits ::

@efenibot

https://t.co/tdyAVPDsS8

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Happy 10th birthday to @LouisArmxnd's THE COMBINATIONS! Join us for a small celebration tonight, 7 pm, at L'Objet Trouvé (Šternberkova 11, Holešovice)!
Staged readings, accordeon, double-bass, & clarinet improv, chess puzzles, and much more!

[Erratum @press_erratum]

Anyone wishing to respond to the claims of #necromodernism by @DavidVichnar
[re. @LouisArmxnd, @incastellated, @ShmikeShmorrao, @AnsgarAllen,@ElsbyCharlene, @rg_vasicek, R. Makin, R. Harsch, Vi Khi Nao, E. Aldrich, G. Maierhofer et al.]
can submit to -> https://t.co/vQMHWNKhYe

[r.g. vašíček @rg_vasicek]

"it was cold there were cathedrals of democracy police hours"

[Tom Bowden @motnedwob]

A new volume of lo-fi anti-memoir from ⁦@rg_vasicek⁩ !

[David Vichnar @DavidVichnar]

"Louis Armand’s work insists that writing itself is necrotic: literature is not about the undead, it IS undead. Across the “Golemgrad Pentalogy”, this necromodernism takes on multiple forms: the golem as artificial life, the vampyr as cultural parasite, the glitch as systemic seizure, the tomb as textual infrastructure. Narrative itself becomes a necromantic process, telling stories animated by ghosts, characters stitched together from dead body parts, plots built from textual scraps."
Many thanks to Joseph Schreiber (@roughghosts) at @MinorLits for publishing my piece on @LouisArmxnd's monumentally complex GOLEMGRAD PENTALOGY as necromodernist megatext, a recursive framework in which characters, motifs, and structures return as revenants, with some new critical vocabulary developed, composed of concepts such as golemic ontology, thanatotechnics, ruinality, metastatic narrativity, and posthumous subjectivity.
https://t.co/umkEGYTeAv

[r.g. vašíček @rg_vasicek]

A short pulp(ish) microfiction (1338 words) called THE MACHINE LORDS OF PRAGUE is a sort of test flight for a return to plot-driven (?) SF... we'll see how long this phase lasts 🤣... NETFLIX, DM if interested... it is the story of errant knight Sir Mojmír
https://t.co/gc7e5x1BEY

[r.g. vašíček @rg_vasicek]

Further adventures in lo-fi samizdat in 2K26...

I wander from Vinohrady into neighboring Žižkov. The novelist in Prague is a dangerous creature. No morality. No allegiance. A hooligan. A vampire of the underground. I lurk at the center of a labyrinth.

https://t.co/s28wDYDuII

[Louis Armand @LouisArmxnd]

From R.G. Vašíček's COMPUTER PEOPLE (2026)...

[David Vichnar @DavidVichnar]

"Necromodernism names the condition of literature after the death of its modernist and postmodernist projects. If modernism imagined the text as a monument to cultural renewal, and postmodernism played among its ruins with irony and bricolage, necromodernism arises when both gestures have collapsed. Literature no longer renews or even parodies, but persists parasitically, feeding off its own cadaver. Its temporality is recursive: the future is accessible only through the remains of the past, the archive reconfigured as necropolis."
This was great fun to think and write through....
Many thanks to Jason Teal at Heavy Feather Review for bringing this out.
All of @LouisArmxnd' monumental Golemgrad Pentalogy project available from @EquusPress & @AlienManifest.
https://t.co/Yr8VNbP8NS

[Louis Armand @LouisArmxnd]

"From Terra Nullius to Pine Gap & beyond, Armand’s novel questions how stories are told & who owns them. At once intimate & epic, it is a novel about love & survival, lament & reclamation & the ways in which the forces of history brutalise the present."

https://t.co/4SaMcXt6Rr

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

The first copies of the still warm-off-the-press Lungfish have already arrived in Prague bookstores, spotted here at the Franz Kafka Bookstore and the Shakespeare & Sons, nestled in-between some Carl Jung, Einstein in Prague, and Patti Smith...

[c22 @c22press]

...or welcome to Prague by the incomparable Nathan Anderson is the latest full length book from C22! Another masterpiece from a master of their form, you'll want to check it out right away!

https://t.co/b3P3aD5BK0

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

‘Imagine somewhere a great and splendid hall where everything is done to produce joy and merriment – but the entrance to this hall is a nasty, muddy, horrible stairway, and it is impossible to pass without getting disgustingly soiled and admission is paid by prostituting oneself, and when day dawns the merriment is over and all ends with one’s being kicked out again. But the whole night through everything is done to keep up and inflame the merriment and pleasure.’

The editorial work is nearing completion on PAINTING EYES ON CHAOS, Phil O'Neil's final text he completed just before his untimely demise last autumn.

Off to the typesetter presently, available for pre-order review copy already.
Envisaged publication: late April.
Here's a back cover sneak preview, more info to follow.

[Equus Press @EquusPress]

Another recent title just made available via Barnes & Noble is Michael Rowland's THE UNNAMEABLE OBJECT (2025), "an epic experiment in collective memory and literary excess which assembles fragments of memoir, fiction, satire, and hallucination into a polyphonic chronicle of Prague’s literary underground."
DM us for free e-book review copies.
https://t.co/4Gca440BiI

[David Vichnar @DavidVichnar]

“Necromodernism neither celebrates the new nor nostalgically mourns the old, inhabiting instead a space where cultural memory, media saturation, and infrastructural collapse converge into textual practice. It is neither an elegy for modernism nor a prophecy of what comes next, but rather a practice of endurance.”

My essay on Necromodernist architectures in contemporary writing, incl. the work of @LouisArmxnd, John Trefry (@incastellated), @ShmikeShmorrao, @AnsgarAllen, Richard Makin, Rick Harsch, Vi Khi Nao, Elizabeth Aldrich et al., now out with @3ammagazine, courtesy @andrewgallix.

https://t.co/DbtlSUtFbN

[Prague Microfestival PMF @praguemicrofest]

Check out SAMIZDAT! the awesome new full-colour Prague Microfestival anthology (you can get the PDF free via the PMF website; hardcopies only at the festival venue! @ Kampus Hybernska 31.10 - 2.11)

[David Vichnar @DavidVichnar]

"A spectre is haunting contemporary literary writing, the spectre of necromodernism… a type of modernism in its posthumous state, a necromodernist condition in which writing persists in the ruins of literature’s once-modern ambitions.

Necromodernism neither celebrates the new nor nostalgically mourns the old, inhabiting instead a space where cultural memory, media saturation, and infrastructural collapse converge into textual practice. It is neither an elegy for modernism nor a prophecy of what comes next, but rather a practice of endurance." From my notes towards "Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing", a propos of some of the most exciting 21st-century fiction to date...

@LouisArmxnd, @1111Press, @incastellated, @CoronaSamizdat, @rickharsch1

[bibliofone @bibliofone]

Why Prague is STILL the Hottest Spot in Continental Europe for English-Language Underground Writing

https://t.co/iroCaimckl