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Library and Archives Canada Grants Exceptional CIP Approval to Disruptive Texts – New Canadian publisher enters the national bibliographic system with Jury of Peers, an experimental work examining art, authorship and artificial intelligence.
GUELPH, ON — [September 1st 2026] — Library and Archives Canada have granted Cataloguing in Publication approval to Jury of Peers: Artists on AI • AI on Art, the launch title from Guelph-based publisher Disruptive Texts, on an exceptional basis.
The decision followed a review of the publisher’s unconventional authorship and publishing model. Library and Archives Canada advised that Disruptive Texts that the usual eligibility criteria for the CIP program, which were developed around more traditional publishing structures. Recognizing that the work fell outside those established models, the institution elected to approve the title as a one-time exception.
“This decision matters because it acknowledges that new forms of publishing are emerging faster than the systems created to classify them,” said Mike Salisbury, founder of Disruptive Texts. “Disruptive Texts was established to publish works that challenge inherited categories, institutional assumptions and conventional ideas about authorship. Jury of Peers is the first demonstration of that mandate.”
Cataloguing in Publication data is created before a book is published and distributed through Canada’s national library and bibliographic systems. It allows libraries, booksellers, universities and other institutions to identify, catalogue and acquire new Canadian publications.
Jury of Peers assembles interpretive reconstructions of the ideas of more than eighty artists, critics and theorists, asking how their established positions might respond to contemporary AI systems capable of producing images. The book examines where art resides: in the object, the act of making, the intention of the maker, the surrounding institution, or the judgment of an audience.
The work is published under the name Chadwick Gepetti, a pen name used within the project to identify ChatGPT as the compiler of the ‘testimony’. Rather than presenting artificial intelligence as a novelty or technical spectacle, the book uses that attribution to deepen its inquiry into authorship, interpretation, originality and cultural authority.
Disruptive Texts was founded in Guelph in 2025 as an independent Canadian publisher of experimental literary, philosophical and conceptual works. Its editorial premise is direct: disruption is the product. The press seeks works that create new forms, challenge accepted structures and make difficult ideas visible.
The exceptional CIP approval marks the first formal entry of Disruptive Texts into Canada’s national publishing and library infrastructure.
Jury of Peers: Artists on AI • AI on Art will be released in September 2026 and available online through Amazon and through IngramSpark’s distribution network for trade and commercial orders. Review copies, interviews and additional background materials are available upon request.