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1. Soothcircuit

   Soothcircuit is a large-scale work of Web poetry that relies on interactive mechanisms inspired by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese oracle book. The work echoes the I Ching’s purpose of providing not so much glimpses into the future as insights into different situations. Each reader’s individual interaction with the work will produce a different combination of aphoristic stanzas. Each unique result can be approached as both a traditional poem and as a reflection upon the reader’s unique personal circumstances -- an oracular“analysis of the reader's current situation. If the reader addresses a question to the Soothcircuit, the reading can also be viewed as an (indirect) answer to the question.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 23:27

2. Quinze aphorismes personnalisés

   In 1985 Paul Braffort and Marcel Bénabou’s program “Fifteen Personalized Aphorisms” was presented at the Centre Pompidou. In the 1990’s, Éric Joncquel created the online version on the ALAMO website. This program is a digital remediation of the Oulipian method of creating aphorisms. The politician Jean Jaurès formulated his famous aphorism “A small bit of internationalism distances us from patriotism, but a lot brings us very close to it” from Roger Bacon’s “A small bit of Science distances us from Faith, but a lot brings us very close to it.” Even though these two sentences discuss two very different subjects, the method of formulating an aphorism allows us to place these two subjects in the same lexical context. At its most essential, an aphorism unites what is separated and separates what is united (this sentence itself is indeed an aphorism!). The four most common tools of doing this in the Oulipian method are equivalence, antithesis, parallelism, and proportion. Jaurès’ quote is an aphorism of implicit proportion because the relationship between the words created by the aphorism is not immediately obvious.

   Scott Rettberg - 11.07.2013 - 11:51

3. Máquinas Pensantes: Aforismos Gerados por Computador

   Barbosa’s theoretical-practical trilogy closes with Máquinas Pensantes: Aforismos Gerados por Computador [Thinking Machines: Computer-Generated Aphorisms] (1988), as it can be understood as the third volume of A Literatura Cibernética. Here, the author presents a long series of literary aphorisms, in which the generation of texts is said to be “computer-assisted” (Computer-Assisted Literature) in BASIC language. The “A” series (Re-text program) deals with combinatorial “re-textualizações” [re-textualizations] (1988: 59) of a fragment (“matrix-text”) by Nietzsche and the “B” series (Acaso program), which had been partially published in the Jornal de Notícias (1984), draws upon the conceptual model created by Melo e Castro’s poem “Tudo Pode Ser Dito Num Poema” [Everything Can Be Said in a Poem], included in Álea e Vazio [Chance and Void] (1971). Finally, the “C” series (Afor-A and Afor-B programs) comprises reformulations of traditional Portuguese aphorisms, which result in new interpretations, sometimes ironic, sometimes surreal.

   Alvaro Seica - 19.11.2013 - 14:22

4. Les Aphorismes

   According to Pedro Barbosa (1996: 166), the aphorisms developed by Marcel Bénabou rely on a set of abstract formal structures and concrete words stored in the program's memory and were programmed in APL in 1979 for the "Journées Afcet".

   Alvaro Seica - 01.05.2015 - 12:36

5. Re-textualizações (Série A)

   Series of aphorisms appropriated from a fragment (“matrix-text”) by Nietzsche and recreated by Pedro Barbosa. The aphorisms were developed in BASIC with a program written by Barbosa, RE-TEXT. The series were published in the third volume of the cybernetic literature series, Máquinas Pensantes (1988).

   Alvaro Seica - 02.05.2015 - 15:25

6. Aforismos (Série B)

   Series of aphorisms developed in BASIC with a program written by the Barbosa, ACASO. The series were firstly published in the newspaper Jornal de Notícias (1984) and then in the third volume of the cybernetic literature series, Máquinas Pensantes (1988).

   Alvaro Seica - 02.05.2015 - 15:38

7. Aforismos (Série C)

   Series of traditional Portuguese aphorisms appropriated and recreated by Pedro Barbosa. The aphorisms were developed in BASIC with two programs written by Barbosa, AFOR-A and AFOR-B. The series were published in the third volume of the cybernetic literature series, Máquinas Pensantes (1988).

   Alvaro Seica - 02.05.2015 - 15:45

8. 'Máquinas Pensantes' by Pedro Barbosa

   Barbosa’s theoretical-practical trilogy closes with Máquinas Pensantes: Aforismos Gerados por Computador [Thinking Machines: Computer-Generated Aphorisms] (1988), as it can be understood as the third volume of A Literatura Cibernética. Here, the author presents a long series of literary aphorisms, in which the generation of texts is said to be “computer-assisted” (Computer-Assisted Literature) in BASIC language. The “A” series (Re-text program) deals with combinatorial “re-textualizações” [re-textualizations] (1988: 59) of a fragment (“matrix-text”) by Nietzsche and the “B” series (Acaso program), which had been partially published in the Jornal de Notícias (1984), draws upon the conceptual model created by Melo e Castro’s poem “Tudo Pode Ser Dito Num Poema” [Everything Can Be Said in a Poem], included in Álea e Vazio [Chance and Void] (1971). Melo e Castro himself would write an early review on the aphorisms, in the Colóquio Letras (1986) literary magazine, revealing Barbosa’s outputs as undeniable literary productions.

   Alvaro Seica - 04.09.2015 - 02:47