The literature of exclusion : Dada, data, and the threshold of electronic literature /
In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war.With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists sought to "signify no thing." Today, data also operates autonomously.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Literature of Exclusion
- Where Word Breaks Off: Language, Finance, and Automated Signification
- Digital Modernism
- Digital Supermodernism: Dataism, Psychopolitics, and Neuro-totalitarianism
- The Voice of the Unknown: Dada and the Superidiot
- Power Is All about Making Things Easy: Neuro-totalitarianism and Poiesis
- The Apparatus Turned Human: AI and Self-Narration
- The Chapters
- Notes
- Chapter 1: Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer, Cognitive Transformation, and Exclusion
- The Flower's Coleridge: Platonism and Cognitive Linguistics
- Coleridge's Flower: Phenomenological Engagement
- Psycho-ecology
- Notes
- Chapter 2: The Radical Poetics of Impersonality: The Posthuman, the Inhuman, and Dada
- Dada and the Radical Poetics of Impersonality
- Notes
- Chapter 3: The Divine Neutrality of the Apparatus: The Self-Reflexive Conceptual Horror of B. R. Yeager
- Notes
- Chapter 4: "Something Is Taking Its Course": Zero-Player Games, Proceduralism, and Samuel Beckett's Endgame
- Procedure without Intention
- Actants and Pataphysics: Imagining Exclusion
- Endgame, Experimentation, and Scientific Narrative: Experiment without Experimenter
- Zero-Player Games and Proceduralism: Endgame as Automaton
- Simulation Fever: Endgame as Zero-Player Simulation
- Thinking Exclusion: Endgame, Flusser, and Information Illiteracy
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Blossoming Ghost: Memetic Engineering, Hauntology, and Metamorphiction in Jeff Noon's Falling Out of Cars
- Impersonal Memetic Engineering and Metamorphiction
- Hauntology and the Specter of the Novel
- The Spectrality of Epistolary Writing and the Chaotics of Memory
- Characters as Metasignals and Writing Pattern from Randomness.
- The Chaotics of Memory, Narcosis, and Contingent Consolation
- Notes
- Chapter 6: Swarm Annihilation and Supermodern Transcendence: Chaotics, Granular Synthesis, and the Glitch Poetics of Kenji Siratori
- Glitching the English Language
- Mavo in Japan
- Cyberpunk in extremis and the Japanese Avant-Garde
- Electronic Music, Granular Synthesis, and Digital Cut-Ups
- Siratori, Antinationalism, and the Western Avant-Garde
- Glitching the Nervous System
- Swarm Annihilation
- Notes
- Chapter 7: The Electronic Literature of Exclusion and Autopoiesis: Obsession and Fictionalism
- Coping with Zero to a Million Decimals: Mike Bonsall's J. G. Ballard Twitter Bots, Autopoiesis, and Functionalist Psychopathology
- Nothing Is Going to Be a Thing: Benjamin's Sunspring, Mathematical Fictionalism, and AI Narrative
- Notes
- Chapter 8: The Electronic Literature of Exclusion and Allopoiesis: Asemic Word Processing, Technical Images, and Allison Parrish's Ahe Thd Yearidy Ti Isa
- Notes
- Conclusion: Extro-Science Fiction, Hyper-Contingent Literatures of Exclusion, and Unthinkable Thought
- Narrating Contingency with Noise
- Factiality, Probability, and Hyper-Chaos: Extro-Science Fiction and Hyper-contingent Literatures of Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
