Die, Fool, the Sages Are Coming! for the first time brings to a post-Yugoslav readership a broad selection from the textual legacy of the hyper-genius Branko Ve Poljanski. The book covers the period between 1920 and 1940, presenting Poljanski not only as a poet, but also as a prose writer, art critic, (pioneering) film theorist, while also revealing everything that lay behind the façade of the ludic and cynical “duke of Zenitism.”
The idea for the cover was inspired by our earlier algorithmic art and design project I Do Not Wish To Be Loved, I Wish Everyone Loved Leaves. Poljanski’s text branches fractally, in a nonlinear and rhizomatic manner, doubling into infinity according to its (anti-)Dadaist poetics. Thus emerges an algorithmic-avant-garde dialectical-fractal Deleuzian-Debordian data-Dada textual tree.
Cover design: Željko Petrović (graphic processing) and me (concept, sketches, programming). Edited by: Adam Ranđelović. Publishers: RED BOX, Belgrade, Serbia, and the Serbian National Council, Zagreb, Croatia. ■
