Eric Schmid: Prolegomenon to a Treatise (Bauer Verlag, 2022)

Co-edited by Ben Green, with forewords by Rocco Gangle, Will Fraser, Michael Stumpf, Connor Tomaka, Fernando Zalamea, afterwords by Alexander Boland, Laszlo Horvath, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Inigo Wilkins, Tim Pierson and postscript by Mattin.

The apparent primary goal of Eric’s treatise is to define something called ‘the Real’, with the help of a patchwork of theoretical materials drawn from contemporary mathematics, mathematical physics, ‘neurophysics’ and continental theory. Other topics in the text, especially those dealing with genesis and manifestation, seem relevant to Eric’s conception of total art, which refines the spirit of Fluxus for the contemporary moment under the heading of ‘minor rationalism’. ––Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix