{"id":7359,"title":"The Mind Crime of August Saint","dimensions":"21.6 x 14 cm, 420 p, language: English, publisher : Fiction Collective Two, Boulder, Colorado (USA). ISBN 0-932511-79-1","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/463","stream_count_app":18,"permalink":"the-mind-crime-of-august-saint","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/854/large/Untitled233.jpg?1367308418","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literary synopsis** Determined to solve a dual crime-on the one hand an abstract Millennial Conspiracy perpetrated against the conventional \u0026quot;logocentric\u0026quot; mind, on the other a gruesome murder-litterateur-detective August Saint embarks on a most peculiar investigation. Saint wanders through a distinctly familiar European landscape, but simultaneously, inexplicably, finds himself traversing parallel media-spawned realties. In *The Mind of August Saint*, a fiction is built out of multiple visual media without reproducing any of these, a concept he names \u0026quot;superfiction\u0026quot; which was taken up in American critical discourse. Alain Arias-Mission mines the epistemological fault line where the old world of the written word lies uneasily against twentieth-first-century electronic media culture. [More](http://www.fc2.org/authors/arias/mind/mind.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literaire synopsis** Man van de letteren en detectieve August Saint begeeft zich aan een opzienbarend onderzoek, vastberaden om een tweevoudige misdaad op te lossen: enerzijds een abstracte Duizendjarige Samenzwering tegen de conventionele \u0026lsquo;logocentrische\u0026rsquo; geest; anderzijds een gruwelijke moord. Saint dwaalt door een opvallend bekend Europees landschap, maar reist tegelijkertijd en onverklaarbaar door parallelle, door de media voortgebrachte werkelijkheid. In *The Mind Crime of August Saint* wordt fictie gebrouwen uit verschillende beelden zonder er eentje te reproduceren \u0026ndash; \u0026lsquo;superfictie\u0026rsquo;, noemt hij dat concept, dat werd opgenomen in het Amerikaanse kritische discours. Alain Arias-Mission exploiteert de breuklijn waar de oude wereld van het geschreven woord ongemakkelijk aanschurkt tegen de 20ste-eeuwse elektronische mediacultuur. [Meer](http://www.fc2.org/authors/arias/mind/mind.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":612,"name":"Alain Arias-Misson","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}