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 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-28/05",
 "title": "Tao Lin — a declared absence: the books from you are a little bit happier than i am to Leave Society, and the mandalas",
 "edition": "No edition held. The seat holds the declaration of what it would hold: declared/absence.json and declared/absence.md.",
 "language": "eng",
 "license": {
  "payload": "The declaration is the archive's own, CC-BY-4.0. The works it names are not held.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
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 "fetched": "2026-10-27",
 "origin": {
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    "file": "declared/absence.md"
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  ],
  "fetched": "2026-10-27",
  "transport": "written in session (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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 "works": {
  "count": 0,
  "units": "no works held; 13 declared",
  "list": []
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 "normalization": "None: the declaration is held as written.",
 "scope": "Declared, not seated: Tao Lin, this emotion was a little e-book (Bear Parade, 2006), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, you are a little bit happier than i am (Action Books, 2006), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Today the Sky Is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today (Bear Parade, 2006), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee (Melville House, 2007), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Bed (Melville House, 2007), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, cognitive-behavioral therapy (Melville House, 2008), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Shoplifting from American Apparel (Melville House, 2009), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Richard Yates (Melville House, 2010), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Books, 2013), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Selected Tweets (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2015), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change (Vintage Books, 2018), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, Leave Society (Vintage Books, 2021), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living); Tao Lin, the mandalas (drawings, from 2014) (sold by the artist, 2014), opens: seventy years after the author's death (the author is living). Wanted: whatever Lin releases openly; his writing on the web as he dates and publishes it, under his terms.",
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   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "this emotion was a little e-book",
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   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Today the Sky Is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today",
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   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Eeeee Eee Eeee",
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   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Bed",
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   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "cognitive-behavioral therapy",
   "first_publisher": "Melville House",
   "first_published": 2008,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Shoplifting from American Apparel",
   "first_publisher": "Melville House",
   "first_published": 2009,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Richard Yates",
   "first_publisher": "Melville House",
   "first_published": 2010,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Taipei",
   "first_publisher": "Vintage Books",
   "first_published": 2013,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Selected Tweets",
   "first_publisher": "Short Flight/Long Drive Books",
   "first_published": 2015,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
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  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change",
   "first_publisher": "Vintage Books",
   "first_published": 2018,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "Leave Society",
   "first_publisher": "Vintage Books",
   "first_published": 2021,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  },
  {
   "author": "Tao Lin",
   "title": "the mandalas (drawings, from 2014)",
   "first_publisher": "sold by the artist",
   "first_published": 2014,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (the author is living)"
  }
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 "why_seated": "MANUS, 27 October 2026, after the twenty-seventh seating entered Deleuze and Guattari as a declared absence: \"and a declared absence/ wanted seating: hypatia, d & g, pkd, allen ginsberg, anne carson, and tao lin - including the mandalas. and paul klee. too many files and too many image copyright landmines.\" Tao Lin (b. 1983) is entered as wanted, the mandalas with the books. He is living, and his works open seventy years after his death. The mandalas, which he began drawing in 2014 and first sold on eBay, are images whose every reproduction is his to license.",
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 "ruling": "A declared absence, the wanted seating: the works named, with their rights and opening dates, and no text (MANUS, 2026-10-27).",
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