Oulipo – Post Position https://nickm.com/post Nick Montfort Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:30:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/wp-content/stuff/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Oulipo – Post Position https://nickm.com/post 32 32 The Mutable Stanzas https://nickm.com/post/2014/08/the-mutable-stanzas/ https://nickm.com/post/2014/08/the-mutable-stanzas/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:20:00 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3887 Continue reading "The Mutable Stanzas"

]]> Yesterday first-person-shooter Borges, intimate, infinite, and based on prose; today cut-up Spenser, mutable and poetic.

The Mutable Stanzas

This dynamic digital poetry piece, by Stephen Pentecost, is quite compelling. The author writes:

The Mutable Stanzas is a digital poetry installation and deformance experiment inspired by Raymond Queneau’s Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes, by the work by Jerome McGann et al on “Deformance and Interpretation,” and by the work of my collegues in the Humanities Digital Workshop.

The Mutable Stanzas disassembles Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene into its constituent lines, groups lines according to terminal rhyme, then randomly reassembles lines into new stanzas.

While the stanzas are structured by end rhyme, and each line is not independent of others, I wonder, as a reader, whether it’s best to avail myself of the pause button or whether I should simply continue reading down the page.

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2014/08/the-mutable-stanzas/feed/ 0 This Interview with Harry Mathews https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/this-interview-with-harry-mathews/ https://nickm.com/post/2014/07/this-interview-with-harry-mathews/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:52:01 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3794 …is really excellent. Anyone interested in Harry’s work, or, more broadly, the Oulipo, should read it. Thanks, of course, to Barbara Henning for doing the interview and EOAGH for publishing it.

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