Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Revenge of the Text 14
6. 2. Language as Material 34
7. 3. Anticipating Instability 63
8. 4. Toward a Poetics of Hyperrealism 83
9. 5. Why Appropriation? 109
10. 6. Infallible Processes: What Writing Can Learn from Visual Art 125
11. 7. Retyping On the Road 150
12. 8. Parsing the New Illegibility 158
13. 9. Seeding the Data Cloud 175
14. 10. The Inventory and the Ambient 188
15. 11. Uncreative Writing in the Classroom: A Disorientation 201
16. 12 Provisional Language 218
17. Afterword 222
18. Notes 229
19. Source Credits 245
20. Index 247