If multivoxel (pattern) analysis is writing a novel, then multivoxel (pattern) analysis is neither without statistical pattern analysis nor writing a novel.
Either brain reading or brain decoding.  All brain decoding is extracting information from BOLD signals. No extracting information from BOLD signals is without statistical pattern analysis.  Writing a novel is without statistical pattern analysis. If multivoxel (pattern) analysis is without statistical pattern analysis and a brain reading, then multivoxel (pattern) analysis is without statistical pattern analysis and brain decoding.
∀x (BrainReading(x) ∨ BrainDecoding(x))  ∀x (BrainDecoding(x) → ExtractingInformationFromBOLDSignals(x)) ∀x (ExtractingInformationFromBOLDSignals(x) → ¬WithoutStatisticalPatternAnalysis(x)) ∀x (WritingANovel(x) → WithoutStatisticalPatternAnalysis(x))  WithoutStatisticalPatternAnalysis(multivoxelPatternAnalysis) ∧ BrainReading(multivoxelPatternAnalysis) → WithoutStatisticalPatternAnalysis(multivoxelPatternAnalysis) ∧ BrainDecoding(multivoxelPatternAnalysis)