CONTENTS

 

Acknowledgments

Introduction

 

 1    Revenge of the Text

 2    Language as Material

 3    Anticipating Instability

 4    Toward a Poetics of Hyperrealism

 5    Why Appropriation?

 6    Infallible Processes: What Writing Can Learn from Visual Art

 7    Retyping On the Road

 8    Parsing the New Illegibility

 9    Seeding the Data Cloud

10   The Inventory and the Ambient

11   Uncreative Writing in the Classroom: A Disorientation

12   Provisional Language

Afterword

Notes

Source Credits

Index