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'''Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines | '''Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines'''<br> | ||
Special Issue # 28 | '''Special Issue # 28'''<br> | ||
The Reader''' | '''The Reader''' | ||
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This reader is a resource. These texts provide references and examples of practice which give context for your work on Special Issue # 28. | This reader is a resource. These texts provide references and examples of practice which give context for your work on Special Issue # 28. <br><br> | ||
'''The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader | '''The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader | ||
–Weeks 1-4: Alphabet as Software''' | –Weeks 1-4: Alphabet as Software'''<br><br> | ||
Ursula Le Guin - A Rant About Technology (200*) | Ursula Le Guin - A Rant About Technology (200*)<br> | ||
Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011) | Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011)<br> | ||
Italo Calvino – Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967) | Italo Calvino – Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)<br> | ||
Walter J. Ong – Orality and Literacy (1982) | Walter J. Ong – Orality and Literacy (1982) <br> | ||
Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman – Information Ages, Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution (2000)– Orality and The Problems of Memory. | Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman – Information Ages, Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution (2000)– Orality and The Problems of Memory. <br><br> | ||
Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970) | Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970)<br> | ||
William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin | William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin<br> | ||
Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013) | Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013)<br> | ||
William Burroughs – The Electronic Revolution (c.1970) | William Burroughs – The Electronic Revolution (c.1970)<br> | ||
Steve Rushton – The Fabulous Loop de Loop –Time Binding and Time Scrambling (2024) | Steve Rushton – The Fabulous Loop de Loop –Time Binding and Time Scrambling (2024)<br> | ||
Extracts from Radical Software (1969-74) | Extracts from Radical Software (1969-74)<br> | ||
Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2019) | Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2019)<br> | ||
OuliPo Group (Ouvroir de las Litterature Potentieelle) (1960s) <br> | |||
Harry Mathews – Liminal Poem to Martin Gardner<br> | |||
Michael Winkler – Where Signs Resemble Thoughts <br> | |||
Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961)<br> | |||
Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961) | |||
Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967) | Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967) | ||
(HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html) | (HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)<br> | ||
Paul Fournel – The Theatre Tree: A Combinatory Play<br> | |||
Marcel Benabou – Rule of Constraint (c. 1984)<br><br> | |||
J.R.Meehan Tale-Spin, an interactive program that writes stories (1977) <br> | |||
N. Katherine Hayles –Writing Machines (2002) – Material Metaphors; Technotexts<br> | |||
Gregory Bateson – Cybernetic Explanation (1967)<br><br> | |||
Ursula K. LeGuin – Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986)<br> | |||
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)<br> | |||
N. Katherine Hayles – Writing Machines (2002)<br> | |||
Charlie Gere – Digital Culture (2002)– The Digital Avant Garde<br><br> | |||
'''• The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –Weeks 5-7: 20th Century Practice - 21st Century Context''' | |||
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Jennette Winterton – AI, Alternative Intelligence (2025) | Jennette Winterton – AI, Alternative Intelligence (2025)<br> | ||
Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025) | Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025)<br> | ||
Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans | Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans | ||
Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour | Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour<br> | ||
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (2004)– Timeline: The Mechanisation of Thinking; Time Line: The Evolution of Intelligence. | Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (2004)– Timeline: The Mechanisation of Thinking; Time Line: The Evolution of Intelligence.<br><br> | ||
N. Katherine Hayles – My Mother Was a Computer (2000)– Speech, Writing, Code | N. Katherine Hayles – My Mother Was a Computer (2000)– Speech, Writing, Code <br> | ||
Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) –Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor | Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) –Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor <br> | ||
John Markoff, What the Doremouse Said, How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)– Augmentation | John Markoff, What the Doremouse Said, How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)– Augmentation<br> | ||
Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron – The Californian Ideology (1995) | Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron – The Californian Ideology (1995)<br> | ||
John C. Lily, M.D. The Human Biocomputer (1974) | John C. Lily, M.D. The Human Biocomputer (1974); <br> | ||
Dr. Gordon Pask & Susan Curran, Maverick Machines, from Microman, Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (1982) | Dr. Gordon Pask & Susan Curran, Maverick Machines, from Microman, Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (1982); | ||
The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –Weeks 7-13, Augmented Reader | '''The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –Weeks 7-13, Augmented Reader''' | ||
Revision as of 16:14, 13 May 2025
Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines
Special Issue # 28
The Reader
This reader is a resource. These texts provide references and examples of practice which give context for your work on Special Issue # 28.
The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader
–Weeks 1-4: Alphabet as Software
Ursula Le Guin - A Rant About Technology (200*)
Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011)
Italo Calvino – Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)
Walter J. Ong – Orality and Literacy (1982)
Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman – Information Ages, Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution (2000)– Orality and The Problems of Memory.
Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970)
William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin
Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013)
William Burroughs – The Electronic Revolution (c.1970)
Steve Rushton – The Fabulous Loop de Loop –Time Binding and Time Scrambling (2024)
Extracts from Radical Software (1969-74)
Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2019)
OuliPo Group (Ouvroir de las Litterature Potentieelle) (1960s)
Harry Mathews – Liminal Poem to Martin Gardner
Michael Winkler – Where Signs Resemble Thoughts
Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961)
Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967)
(HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)
Paul Fournel – The Theatre Tree: A Combinatory Play
Marcel Benabou – Rule of Constraint (c. 1984)
J.R.Meehan Tale-Spin, an interactive program that writes stories (1977)
N. Katherine Hayles –Writing Machines (2002) – Material Metaphors; Technotexts
Gregory Bateson – Cybernetic Explanation (1967)
Ursula K. LeGuin – Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986)
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)
N. Katherine Hayles – Writing Machines (2002)
Charlie Gere – Digital Culture (2002)– The Digital Avant Garde
• The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –Weeks 5-7: 20th Century Practice - 21st Century Context
Jennette Winterton – AI, Alternative Intelligence (2025)
Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025)
Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans
Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (2004)– Timeline: The Mechanisation of Thinking; Time Line: The Evolution of Intelligence.
N. Katherine Hayles – My Mother Was a Computer (2000)– Speech, Writing, Code
Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) –Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor
John Markoff, What the Doremouse Said, How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)– Augmentation
Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron – The Californian Ideology (1995)
John C. Lily, M.D. The Human Biocomputer (1974);
Dr. Gordon Pask & Susan Curran, Maverick Machines, from Microman, Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (1982);
The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –Weeks 7-13, Augmented Reader
Links to texts that are best navigated with HTML
==OuliPo Media==
Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967) –HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)
EXERCISES IN STYLE by Raymond Queneau Translated by Barbara Wright with new exercises translated by Chris Clarke https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/a/a2/Raymond_Queneau_Exercises_in_Style.pdf
Roland Bathes – Death of The Author (1967) as sound file bundle
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio
==Burroughs media:==
By
1963 Anthony Balch William Burroughs Towers Open Fire HD
https://archive.org/details/info_alibros_Info_201906
The spoken word. William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin
Brion
Gysin - Cut-ups self-explained
(43 mins in)
I am this painter -Brion Gysin
(47 mins in)
https://archive.org/details/youtube-dW0VQq94vO4
Brion Gysin
I Am 1960
https://archive.org/details/youtube-RnMKF5Zyc-0
The Cut Ups 1966
https://archive.org/details/youtube-Uq_hztHJCM4/The_Cut_Ups_1966_William_S._Burroughs-Uq_hztHJCM4.mkv
The Cut Up Films (1966?)
Time travel (2 mins in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTN5FNSpTU
About
Reframed- The Most Important Writer You Don't Want to Read (comprehensive [but moralistic?] overview of Burroughs Naked Lunch-Cut-Up period).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSxP4PZ2sf8
Barry Miles (Burroughs biographer) on Burroughs in London (7.30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqShSodSF4
Barry Miles Autobiography of Burroughs (13 mins= ‘question everything’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jCdcMHK10
Gavin Young – Demystifying Burroughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHx7soKPbQo
detrumpify
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detrumpify/hfhaalldkgmfbjjehkiddheghljjdjln