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The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration.
List of contents
Introduction: The Literature of Exclusion
Chapter 1: Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer, Cognitive Transformation, and Exclusion
Chapter 2: The Radical Poetics of Impersonality: The Posthuman, the Inhuman, and Dada
Chapter 3: The Divine Neutrality of the Apparatus: The Self-Reflexive Conceptual Horror of B.R. Yeager
Chapter 4: "Something Is Taking Its Course": Zero-Player Games, Proceduralism, and Samuel Beckett's Endgame
Chapter 5: Blossoming Ghost: Memetic Engineering, Hauntology, and Metamorphiction in Jeff Noon's Falling Out of Cars
Chapter 6: Swarm Annihilation and Supermodern Transcendence: Chaotics, Granular Synthesis, and the Glitch Poetics of Kenji Siratori
Chapter 7: The Electronic Literature of Exclusion and Autopoiesis: Obsession and Fictionalism
Chapter 8: The Electronic Literature of Exclusion and Allopoiesis: Asemic Word Processing, Technical Images, and Allison Parrish's Ahe Thd Yearidy Ti Isa
Conclusion: Extro-Science Fiction, Hyper-Contingent Literatures of Exclusion, and Unthinkable Thought
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By Andrew C. Wenaus
Summary
The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration.
