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"The formal logic. . ."
Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediations: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, p. 273.

Hobyah
Panshin, Alexei. Masque World. New York: Ace Books, 1969.

Huizinga
Salen, Katie and Eric Zimmerman. Rules of Play. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, p. 4.

Anecdote of Car
Kronos Quartet. "A Door is Ajar." Winter Was Hard. New York: Nonesuch Records, 2004.

Doctor Cool
Liu, Alan. Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 2004.

posthumanly sideways
Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 2005.

Hayles offers "transmediation" as a broader and more accommodating alternative to Bolter and Grusin's concept.

premedially back
Grusin, Richard. Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

The new term seems more of a shift into a different register than a modification of the old, pre-milliennial idea.

the Synner
Cadigan, Pat. Synners. New York: Bantam Spectra, 1990, p. 32.

Or set
Name in which we conjure.

Noah knows
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009, p. 1.

most sublime act
Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. See, e.g., Erdman, David V., ed. The Poetry and Prose of William Blake. New York: Doubleday, 1970, p. 35.

ergon-hodos
Aarseth, Espen Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997, p. 2.

Transverse City
Zevon, Warren. Transverse City. Los Angeles: Virgin Records, 1989.

"man woman"
You could look it up.

outside Ireland
Joyce, Michael. The War Outside Ireland: A History of the Doyles in North America with an Account of Their Migrations. Jackson, MI: Tinkers Dam Press, 1982.

Actually, not these Doyles.

sleuth's muse
Doyle, A.C. "A Scandal in Bohemia."

Dorothee Metlitzki
Professor Metlitzki, who taught at Yale for 25 years, was a fellow of Ezra Stiles College, where the conversation in question took place sometime in 1988.

daughter of computer
Hayles borrowed the title of her book, My Mother Was a Computer, from Balsamo, whose mother really did work during the 1940s as a tabulation clerk, or as the U.S. government officially designated, a computer.

"change for the machines"
Cadigan, p. 143.

a not so idle hand
Hayles, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008, p. 116.

The passage is worth quoting: "Interactive text. . . stimulates sensorimotor functions not mobilized in conventional print reading, including fine movements involved in controlling the mouse, keyboard, and/or joystick, haptic feedback through the hands and fingers, and complex eye-hand coordination in real-time dynamic environments."

Wesch
Wesch, William. "The Machine is Us/ing Us." http://blogs.tlt.psu.edu/courses/disruptive/2010/01/wesch-the-machine-is-us.html/.

when Laurel pitched
This is from a remark Laurel made before her keynote at the second Cyberspace conference, in Santa Cruz, California, in the spring of 1991.

raise a glossy tombstone
Facebook, foursquare, and Twitter were primitive instrumentalities for micro-blogging within social networks, thought by some to have been focus of considerable interest in early proto-gnominids. "Stuart Moulthrop" is conjectured to have been a language function associated with certain de-industrialized sites of Old North Am.

Cayley
I quote from John Cayley's keynote address to the 2008 Visionary Landscapes conference, called "Weapons of the Deconstructive Masses." Only the first part of this paper has been published so far, and I quote the passage here with the author's permission.

The Simpsons never did
See Season 21, Episode 10, "Once Upon a Time in Springfield," in which Bart writes on the hallowed blackboard: "THE WORLD MAY END IN 2012 BUT THIS SHOW WON'T."

T. Memmott, J. Nelson
I'm thinking particularly of Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia, and various pieces by Nelson, including "I Made This. You Play This. We Are Enemies."

America's Army
I mean the video game.

here for a reason
Indeed.

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