Electronic Literature, Chapter 2: Combinatory Poetics
This research collection includes references from the second chapter of Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg (Polity, 2018) on Combinatory Poetics. Computer programs access and present data, whether internal to the program and provided by external sources and user input, and then through algorithmic processes, modify or substitute the data presented by the system. It is in this procedural substitution of data, and of language, that computation is most concretely connected to combinatory poetics in experimental writing traditions such as Dada, Surrealism, and Oulipo. This chapter of Electronic Literature considers how elements of chance and procedurality served as the foundation for combinatory and generative art and literature. Combinatory poetics emerged in twentieth-century avant-garde movements, further developed in poetry generators in the early history of computing and remains today an essential mode of practice in electronic literature.
People:
Name | Residency |
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Jean-Pierre Balpe |
France
FR
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Jason Nelson |
Witheren
, QLD
Australia
Queensland AU
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James Tenney | |
Jacob Harris | |
J. R. Carpenter |
United Kingdom
GB
|
Ian Hatcher |
New York
United States
US
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Hugh Kenner | |
Håkan Jonson |
Stockholm
Sweden
SE
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Georges Perec | |
George Maciunas | |
Everest Pipkin |
Austin
, TX
United States
Texas US
|
Erica T. Carter | |
Eric Snodgrass |
Sweden
SE
|
David Jhave Johnston |
Montreal
, QC
Canada
Quebec CA
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Daniel C. Howe |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong S.A.R., China
HK
|
Christopher Strachey |
United Kingdom
GB
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Brion Gysin | |
Brian Lennon |
PA
United States
Pennsylvania US
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Aya Natalia Karpinska |
New York
United States
US
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Amaranth Borsuk |
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