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Fair Use (Notes From Spam) is published by Book Works. Printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, full colour, five booklets in a slip case. Designed by Stewart Cauley. 210 x 140 mm.


 		Fair Use (Notes From Spam)
by Graham Parker (2009)

“Not My Will but Thine be Done”—P.T. Barnum’s gravestone inscription

Graham Parker’s Fair Use considers the reviled phenomenon of spam e-mails, as a symptom of globalisation and as part of a historical continuum of deceptions played out through the communications technologies of each age.

Taking the form of a heavily (and spuriously) footnoted account of key moments in communication history, Parker’s associative archive ranges from US computer landfill sites in Nigeria to server farms in Virginia; from maps of nineteenth-century railroads to websites charting the current spread of a rogue seaweed through ships’ ballast tanks; from fake timelines of the last 200 years drawn from spam source code, to accounts of the historical origin of archetypal confidence tricks; from screen-grabs of spectral banking websites to the physical ‘big stores’ of depression-era long con tricks, interspersed with images of Parker’s own artworks and fragments of his crowded mail inbox.

ISBN 978 1 906012 04 5—Price £14.95
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Fair Use (Notes From Spam)
by Graham Parker (2009)

“Not My Will but Thine be Done”—P.T. Barnum’s gravestone inscription

Graham Parker’s Fair Use considers the reviled phenomenon of spam e-mails, as a symptom of globalisation and as part of a historical continuum of deceptions played out through the communications technologies of each age.

Taking the form of a heavily (and spuriously) footnoted account of key moments in communication history, Parker’s associative archive ranges from US computer landfill sites in Nigeria to server farms in Virginia; from maps of nineteenth-century railroads to websites charting the current spread of a rogue seaweed through ships’ ballast tanks; from fake timelines of the last 200 years drawn from spam source code, to accounts of the historical origin of archetypal confidence tricks; from screen-grabs of spectral banking websites to the physical ‘big stores’ of depression-era long con tricks, interspersed with images of Parker’s own artworks and fragments of his crowded mail inbox.

ISBN 978 1 906012 04 5—Price £14.95