"Amok/Koma" (1980)

Bonn/Hamburg, Germany: Expanded Media Editions (book, anthology), 1980.
11.25" x 8" x 0.625", 254 pages, softcover, ISBN 3-88030-016-X.

Amok/Koma – Ein Bericht zur Lage, an anthology edited by Jürgen Ploog, Pociao, and Walter Hartmann, published by Expanded Media Editions (Bonn/Hamburg, Germany) in 1980. Cover and text design by Walter Hartmann. Translations by Jürgen Ploog, Pociao, Carl Weissner, and Walter Hartmann. Produced by Hartmut Bremer.

This includes Blade Runner by William S. Burroughs, a German translation of the text of Blade Runner (A Movie), pp. 63-67.

Burroughs makes a cameo in Hamri Ben Hachem's "Abstract Gertie versus Hollowgram Rudie", on page 17.

There is additionally an advertisement for the German edition of Blade Runner, published by Eco-Verlag, on page 250. Later, a full-page ad for Pociao's Books features a substantial selection of Burroughs's books.

This copy was acquired from Antiquariat Jochen Mohr (Oberthal, Germany).

Shoaf II.155.

Contents:

• Jürgen Ploog: "Showdown des Okzidents" (prose)
• Brion Gysin: "Überleben" (prose)
• Carl Laszlo: "Perspektiven für die achtziger Jahre" (interview)
• Hamri Ben Hachem: "Abstract Gertie versus Hollowgram Rudie" (comic)
• Alan Granville:
• "Gummischlitz" (prose)
• "Saftorangen" (prose)
• "Take/One" (prose)
• "Monster" (prose)
• Klaus Mäc: "Amok Koma" (prose)
• Hilka Nordhausen: "Heidrum" (prose)
• Uli Nattermüller: "Phantom" (prose)
• Christoph Derschau: "Schwarze Asche" (prose)
• Horst Turner: "Mute Ants" (poetry/collage)
• Udo Breger: "Halt mal das Messer" (prose)
• Patti Smith: 
• "Dolor desvelado" (poetry)
• "Soul Jive" (poetry)
• "Muschel" (poetry)
• Robert Mapplethorpe: photographs of Patti Smith
• Horst Turner: "Edison Hotel" (collage)
• Jürgen Hellweg:
• "Traumkonzert 4" (poetry)
• "Der Schrei der Engel" (poetry)
• Imre Török: "Energie (Eine Opernphantasie)" (script)
• Janet Hamill: "Schlangenhaut" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Blade Runner" (prose)
• Ewa Zajak: photograph
• Throbbing Gristle: 
• "Der alte Mann lächelte/The Old Man Laughed" (lyrics)
• "Ist die Welt wirklich so traurig wie sie aussieht?/Can thee world be as sad as it seems?" (lyrics)
• "Zyklon B Zombie" (lyrics)
• "Mordlust/Urge to Kill" (lyrics)
• "Slug Bait" (lyrics)
• "Überredung/Persuasion"
• "Verbreitung von Information" (letter)
• Gregor Pott: "Partisan Performance" (prose)
• Ango Laina: "Es werden keine Gefangenen mehr gemacht" (prose)
• Walter Hartmann: "The Koma Kid Smiles" (collage/art)
• Heinz Häberli: photograph
• Peter Baschung: "Oratorium Helveticus (eine Latrine)" (poetry/prose)
• Hannes Hatje: drawing
• Kiev Stingl: "Gottes neue Gestapo" (prose)
• Charles Plymell: "Amok Koma" (prose)
• Michael Hollingshead and Robert Anton Wilson: interview
• Timothy Leary: "Neuropolitik: die Bedeutung der Auswanderung ins All" (essay)
• Sophie Babel: "Oil of Gladness" (prose)
• Kees Mol: "Je n'étais jamais régénération I & II" (prose/poetry)
• Walter Hartmann: "Interview mit R. N." 
• Dieter Duck: "Am besten alles vermeiden" (poetry)
• Alfred Miersch:
• "Keine Zukunft" (poetry)
• "Tritte in den Kopf" (poetry)
• "Chaos" (prose)
• "Schöne Aussicht" (poetry)
• unstated: "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
• Barbara Heinzius:
• "Illusionen" (poetry)
• "Kleinstadtleben" (poetry)
• "Allein" (poetry)
• "Jam Session" (poetry)
• Walter E. Baumann: "<symbols>" (photographs/collages)
• Carl Weissner: "Die Eingeschlossenen von der Lower East Side" (prose)
• Claude Pelieu-Washburn: "Die Faust im Nacken" (prose)
• unstated: "Minus Delta t" (art)
• unstated: "Diazentrale Ost" (questionnaire)
• Klaus Mäc: "It's a Rip Off" (collage)
• Jessica Hagedoen: "Yolanda und die Wild Boys" (prose)
• Hadayat Ullah Hübsch: "Morgen ist auch noch kein Tag" (prosE)
• Rolf Brück: 
• "Recycled Vinyl" (poetry)
• "Liquid Vinyl" (poetry)
• "Die Gitarre" (poetry)
• Ralf Rullmann:
• "1980 – No Future?" (poetry)
• "An aus" (prose)
• "Im Schatten 140:80" (poetry)
• "2000 Light Years from Home" (poetry/prose)
• Aleister Crowley: "Of Eroto-Comatose Lucidity" (essay)
• Eckhard Rhode: "23 Fluchtpunkt" (prose)
• Daniel Dubbe: "Schreiben" (prose)
• Kall Kollmann: "Aufhören..." (prose)
• Fritz Teufel: "Brief" (letter)
• William Levy: "Aufruf zum Chaos" (poetry)
• Pociao: "Am Anfang war die Zukunft" (essay)
• Die Autoren