rot (edition rot)

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The legendary Stuttgart concrete-poetry / experimental-text series 'rot' (edition rot), edited by Max Bense and Elisabeth Walther, 1960–1997. Square 15×15 cm booklets in the unmistakable red moiré-striped cover. 57 booklets were published, numbered 1–44 and 50–62 (the numbers 45–49 were never used). HELD ON THE SHELF — 18 issues: · 22 — Konrad B. Schäuffelen — en gros & en detail · 25 — Haroldo de Campos — versuchsbuch: galaxien · 26 — Hansjörg Mayer — alphabetenquadrate · 28 — Franz Mon — 5 beliebige fassungen · 30 — Francis Ponge — praxis der sprache aus malherbe · 31 — Witold Wirpsza — bruchsünden und todstücke · 32 — Diter Rot (Dieter Roth) — 80 wolken 1965–1967 · 36 — Hegel — vorlesungen über die ästhetik (sel. Bense) · 37 — George D. Birkhoff — einige mathematische elemente der kunst · 38 — Max Bense — kleine abstrakte ästhetik · 39 — Aloisio Magalhães — der weg eines zeichens · 40 — Burkhardt / Döhl — poem structures in the looking glass · 41 — konkrete poesie international 2 · 42 — Friederike Roth / Gabbo Mateen — minimalerzählungen · 43 — Bernard Bolzano — semiotik · 44 — Charles S. Peirce — graphen und zeichen · 51 — Yona Friedman — gruppen – netzwerke · 52 — Charles S. Peirce — zur semiotischen grundlegung von logik und mathematik MISSING — 39 issues to hunt (of 57): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. Priorities for the collection's computer-art focus among the missing: rot 19 (Georg Nees — computer grafik / programme / projekte generativer ästhetik, 1965 — a foundational generative-art document), rot 8 (Abraham Moles — erstes manifest der permutationellen kunst), rot 7 (Noigandres — konkrete texte), rot 21 (konkrete poesie international, the Gomringer/Finlay/Rühm anthology), rot 13 (Hansjörg Mayer — alphabet), and rot 16 (Ernst Jandl — lange gedichte). [DETECTIVE] Wanted 'rot' (edition rot, Bense/Walther) issues, numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. Physical copies on the studio shelf; identified 2026-07-27. Authoritative series bibliography: stuttgarter-schule.de/rot.htm; scholarship: ZKM, 'Reading rot Again'. DIGITAL AVAILABILITY (found 2026-07-27): of the whole series, only two issues are digitized and freely readable — and both are gaps in this collection, the two most historically important ones: · rot 19 — Georg Nees / Max Bense, 'Computer-Grafik' (1965): full PDF — https://monoskop.org/images/b/b1/Rot_19_Computer-Grafik_1968.pdf · rot 21 — 'konkrete poesie international' (1965): full PDF — https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Rot_21_konkrete_poesie_international_1965.pdf (original source: Archivio Maurizio Spatola, https://www.archiviomauriziospatola.com/prod/pdf_storici/S00175.pdf) No other issue is digitized anywhere. The Sackner Archive (Univ. of Iowa) and ZKM Karlsruhe hold the full run physically but have put nothing online (ZKM's 2024 'Reading rot Again' show was physical-only). Everything else survives online only as bibliographic records (stuttgarter-schule.de, dada.compart-bremen.de) or dealer cover photos.