約翰・凱奇的《日記》是20世紀美國前衛藝術中最獨特且深具思想性的作品之一，橫跨1965至1981年，融合隨機操作、禪意故事與深刻社會觀察。這本擴充版平裝書完整收錄全部八部內容，並新增凱奇第九部手稿影印頁與真菌學家大衛・羅斯的專文。書中文字經由機率方式決定排版、字體與顏色，視覺效果如音樂般律動，呈現語言的聲響與空間感。從日常生活到全球議題，凱奇用機緣與幽默回應戰爭、藝術與人性，是當代思想與藝術實驗的經典之作。"Over 16 years, beginning in 1965, John Cage compiled anecdotes, observations and koanlike tales, originally typing everything on an IBM Selectric and using chance methods to determine the formatting of texts that twist down each page. The Siglio edition preserves the graphic effects, but, more important, it gives a sense of the company he kept during these years--Marcel Duchamp, R. Buckminster Fuller, D.T. Suzuki--and of his passionate feeling about a world locked in a state of perpetual warfare. Cage has a reputation for being a Zen-inspired wit. He was also much more, an intensely engaged moral thinker." -Holland Cotter, New York TimesNow available in an expanded paperback edition, Diary registers Cage's assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portent
