please combine me combine please me: A Collection of Factorial Literature [l!]

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please combine me combine please me is a collection that takes on the concept of factorial literature [l!] as a transtemporal genre. Taking into consideration the essay “A Literatura Factorial [l!]” (Seiça 2013) as a starting point, this collection of resources selects literary works that have a permutational structure of composition, in addition to critical writing that has addressed this domain, specifically in the case of factorial poetry [p!].

Being the intrinsic nature of these works concerned with combinatory practices, I acknowledge here the fact that combinatorial poetics is an art that has been developed throughtout the ages. By selecting a wider number of literary artifacts, I am expanding the initial analysis I had done when defining the term “factorial literature [l!]” (2011).

As Christopher Funkhouser states, “All works of text generation, or archetypal computer poetry, can be seen as performing some type of permutation in that they transform or reorder one set of base texts or language (word lists, syllables, or preexisting texts) into another form.” (2007: 36) To render the question of combination and permutation more debatable, among other used sources, I consulted the frequencies of specific tags in the ELMCIP database. As of August 26, 2013, here are the searched tags by frequency: permutations (1), permutation (3), poetry generation (6), recombinant (6), text generation (7), combinatory poetics (8), text generators (8), generator (8), procedural (13), combinatory (16), generated poetry (17), combinatorial (21), algorithmic text generation (22), generative poetry (23), poetry generator (28).

Po-ex.net entry:
http://www.po-ex.net/taxonomia/transtextualidades/metatextualidades-alog...

People:

Name Residency
William Poundstone
Los Angeles
United States
US
Raymond Queneau
France
FR
Georges Perec
Florian Cramer
Rotterdam
Netherlands
NL
Chris Funkhouser
Newton , NJ
United States
New Jersey US
Brion Gysin
William S. Burroughs
Pedro Barbosa
Porto
Portugal
PT
Theo Lutz
Esslingen
Germany
DE
Abraham A. Moles
Strasbourg
France
FR
Nanni Balestrini
Jason Nelson
Witheren , QLD
Australia
Queensland AU
Joan Campàs
Alan Sondheim
United States
US
Bernard Magne
France
FR
Antoine Denize
France
FR
Philippe Bootz
Paris
France
FR
Daniel C. Howe
Hong Kong
Hong Kong S.A.R., China
HK
Aya Natalia Karpinska
New York
United States
US
Richard W. Bailey
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Teaching Resources:

Title Type Author
Digital Poetry (English 3116) Syllabus Lori Emerson
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Publishers:

Name Location
Eugen Gomringer Press
Switzerland
CH
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