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1 An International Lunch in the Naked Zone

1.1 concerning an unreal space with real consequences. . . . . . 2 image 1.1 Prester John as Emperor of Ethiopia. . . . . 2 1.2 concerning William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. . . . . 2 1.3 Potash. . . . . . 3 1.4 concerning Tangier’s period as an International Zone. . . . . 4 1.5 Land for sale in the city center. . . . . 6 1.6 concerning a visit to Tangier pt. 1 (George, Yussef, Zak). . . . . 6 1.7 Special Container Cargo Shipping to Tangier Via Guangzhou. . . . . 7 1.8 concerning a visit to Tangier pt. 2 (La Casa Barata). . . . . 8 1.9 Argan Cosmetics oil . . . . . 9 1.10 concerning a presentation of works in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland . . . . . 10 1.11 STB with IRDETO card reader. . . . . 10 1.12 concerning interzones . . . . . 11

2 On the work of art in the age of biological reproduction

2.1 concerning the naming of the Sansevieria trifascitata. . . . . 12 2.2 concerning recent flamingo sightings in Rotterdam, Zuid Holland . . . . . 12 2.3 concerning Robert Ridgway’s color classification systems . . . . . 13 2.4 concerning flamingo coloring and MacBook pro LCD panels . . . . . 13 2.5 concerning (the reportage of) bee infestations in Southern Illinois . . . . 14 2.6 concerning an extraterrestrial encounter. . . . . 14 2.7 concerning the belief in unverifiable phenomena . . . . . 15 2.9 concerning vacancy rates in Rotterdam, Zuid Holland . . . . . 15 2.10 concerning his profound experience of absence and Lenin’s preserved corpse. . . . . 15 image 2.1 vacant American storefront. . . . . 16 image 2.2 corpse of Vladimir Lenin, Moscow. . . . . 16 2.11 Mummy Brown is Dead . . . . . 16 image 2.3 Mummy Brown in Color Standards and Nomenclature. . . . . 17 2.12 concerning Luther Burbank and the advent of the US Plant Patenting Law . . . . . 17 2.13 concerning the accuracy of labeling Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue . . . . . 17 image 2.4 North American Stellar’s Jay . . . . . 18 2.14 concerning possible relationships between honey, sex, electricity and money . . . . . 18 2.15 Notes on the work of art in the age of biological reproduction . . . . . .18 2.16 concerning the United Nations Law of Sea Convention . . . . . 19 2.17 concerning his trip to the Port of Rotterdam . . . . . 19 2.18 concerning the brief description of a square shape. . . . . 19 2.19 concerning the relationship between the reading of a landscape and the

          reading of an artwork. . . . . 19

2.20 A brief report on the enigma of the Baghdad Battery at the Arroway Research Center . . . . 20 2.21 concerning the packaging and delivery of live mantis shrimp . . . . . 21 2.22 concerning the invention of Potash, patent models, and the history of the United States Patent

          and Trademark Office. . . . . 21

image 2.5 exterior of current US Patent and Trademark Office. . . . . 22 image 2.6 exterior of old US Patent and Trademark Office c. 1877. . . . .22 image 2.7 interior of current US Patent and Trademark Office . . . . . 22 image 2.8 interior of old US Patent and Trademark Office c. 1877. . . . . 22 2.23 Inserts, Plug-ins and Parasites . . . . . 23

Bibliography. . . . . 24-25