O[RPHAN] D[RIFT>]:Cyberpositive
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First edition published in 1995 by O[rphan] D[rift>]/Cabinet Editions (with support from Nick Land), on the occasion of the exhibition/installation at Cabinet, Brixton, London, in 1995.

Edited by Maggie Roberts; 448pp; 130×200 mm; 1x B&W image; 2-colour soft cover;
ISBN 0-952-58240-6; Anti copyright.

Design: O[rphan] D[rift>]/Secondary Modern (SecMoCo as was).

Contributors:
. Asked– Alec Dippie, Fred Evans, Simon Josebury, Suzanne Karakashian, Tom Louichon, Nick Land, Suhail Malik, Rob Maze, Ranu Mukherjee, Dan O’Hara, Sadie Plant, Maggie Roberts, Kurt Vildgren.
. Unasked– J.G Ballard, Georges Bataille, Greg Bear, Hakim Bey, Kathryn Bigelow, William Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Mike Davies, Manual DeLanda, Maya Deren, Giles Deleuze, Marguerite Duras, Philip K. Dick, Mark Downham, William Gibson, Felix Guattari, Stanislau Lem, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Mike McGuire (juno reactor), Mute Magazine, Thomas Pynchon, Anne Rice, Serge (total eclipse), Stelarc, Neil Stephenson, Tsuyoshi Suzuki (prana), Unnatural Publications.

Having worked on the design for many of the Cabinet projects since its early formation, SecMoCo was pleased to have the opportunity to design, layout and produce– along with with Maggie Roberts, Suzanne Karakashian and Ranu Mukherjee– what has proven to be a highly prescient publication. Published in the same year as the hyper-stimulation of the second Virtual Futures conference (May 25–28, University of Warwick) it can be seen as an indicative marker of the creative and intellectual work going on in that particular historical moment – to theorise the political and cultural implications of the very dawning of a highly networked global information system and the human–digital relationship within it.

The publication has been subsequently reprinted by Cabinet. Here, below, is the information on this from the Cabinet website, where you can buy copies of the reprint and you can also find images of the exhibition/installation in 1995.

‘0(rphan)d(rift>) cyberpositive is an experimental sci fi novel, collectively authored by a group of asked and unasked contributors and edited by OD’s Maggie Roberts. It was published in 1995 with support from Nick Land and Cabinet Editions, serving as our manifesto and as the catalogue for the debut exhibition of the same name. It came together in the spirit of much of our visual work, bringing together processes of sampling and looping as well as the Burroughs cut up technique, referring to a breakdown and reordering of language from a post apocalyptic POV.’
http://www.orphandriftarchive.com

0(rphan)d(rift>) cyberpositive
1995
448pp. 13 x 20 cm
Published by Cabinet Editions / Openmute
Reissue 2012 and 2015
ISBN 13: 9781906496807
£15.00 (2019 reissue)
For orders please email art@cabinetltd.demon.co.uk