Alt-X[cerpts]: The Anarchivists of Eco-Dub

"ECO-DUB is a real and evolving cultural repository of image, sound and text -- driven by a fictional cast of characters looking for answers in a society that commercial media left behind. Set in the near future, the world's only hope of holding onto a humanist (and progressive) identity rests with a rag-tag band of drug and sex-addled info-junkies.

Through the Ecodub 'shaman head hose' processor, an Anarchival Research/Broadcast Station (see cover), The Anarchivists are able to 'divine the exquisite corpse of culture' through the arranged marriage of live, recombinant media interplay and sophisticated indexing techniques. When their signal (beamed daily from erratic Satellite Erica) becomes too popular to control, the Media Blackouts begin, and the Eco-Dubbers' only hope is to unleash a Divine Intelligence in the making. . . .

Nile Southern is a writer and filmmaker living in Boulder, Colorado, and Thessaloniki, Greece. He wrote The Anarchivists of Eco-Dub as a 'screen-based narrative' while living in London from 1989-1991. Nile collaborated on the video work that led to much of the animated imagery in Mark Amerika's Grammatron. He is the designer of the Alt-X Press series, a virtual imprint of Alt-X. . . . 

Since our inception in 1993, Alt-X's primary mission has been to challenge the art and literary publishing establishments by supporting some of the most iconoclastic voices and visions in contemporary art and writing. Our Alt-X Virtual Imprint brings to web readers a must have library of uncategorizable writing being produced by some of the most provocative artists in contemporary new media culture. As eclectic writing makes its footprint into the electrosphere, we no longer ask 'What is literature?' but, more importantly, 'What is literature's exitstrategy?'" -- from Alt-X