Monday 4 April 2016

No Title, short story by Heath Bunting


No Title 

Short story by Heath Bunting, 2009


a human being able to provide money[04429] - a human being customer of argos[09116] - a human being in possession of a computer[01119] - a human being in possession of a keyboard[12128] - a human being able to write a language[00028] - a human being in possession of a natural person able to write a language[01389] - a human being in possession of a natural person able to provide email address[01087] - a human being in possession of a natural person user of a post office credit card[03541] - a human being in possession of a natural person customer of the post office[06523] - a human being in possession of a natural person user of a card one banking debit card[00693] - a human being in possession of a natural person user of a debit card account[03305] - a human being in possession of demand deposit money[13143] - a human being in possession of money[09647] - a human being able to provide money[04429] 



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Heath Bunting is in point A because he isn’t in point A. 
 



Text by Mihaela Varzari 


As part of his on-going research into the administrative and legal systems governing our existence, Heath Bunting writes computer generated short stories. The form is dry, schematic and the narrative employs the device of detouring, which here means that the beginning and the end overlap, whereby one starts from A to still arrive to A. As in the short story, One Million Pound Bank Note, written in 1893 by Mark Twain, where the main protagonist manages to live off a one million pound bank note for a month without having to spend any of it, Heath Bunting similarly stripes the symbolism of the legal structure bare. 100 odd years after Twain died, the same traditional system of governance still exists uninterrupted. The grey areas within the legal systems, based on self proclaiming affirmations, which at the same time allow for the system to exist, initiate here the key mythology in subject formation.




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