Agrippa (a book of the dead): William Gibson, Dennis Ashbaugh, Artist's book, Floppy disk, Penn Jillette, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Tapa blanda

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Agrippa (a book of the dead) is a work of art created by speculative fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992. The work consists of a 300-line semi-autobiographical electronic poem by Gibson, embedded in an artist''s book by Ashbaugh. Gibson''s text focused on the ethereal nature of memories (the title is taken from a photo album). Its principal notoriety arose from the fact that the poem, stored on a 3.5 floppy disk, was programmed to erase itself after a single use similarly, the pages of the artist''s book were treated with photosensitive chemicals, effecting the gradual fading of the words and images from the book''s first exposure to light."