{"id":926,"date":"2010-06-08T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=926"},"modified":"2010-06-08T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:40:58","slug":"wheel-make-you-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/06\/wheel-make-you-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheel Make You Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\"><i>ebr (Electronic Book Review)<\/i><\/a> is Whitney Anne Trettien&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\/thread\/electropoetics\/combinatory\">&#8220;Computers, Cut-ups, and Combinatory Volvelles.&#8221;<\/a> (We already love computers and cut-ups, but be aware that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=Volvelles\">volvelles<\/a> are extremely cool.) Some illustrations are still to come, but the article&#8217;s text and references are now up &#8230; I believe in link early, link often.<\/p>\n<p>The article is born of Trettien&#8217;s born-digital MIT Comparative Media Studies thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitneyannetrettien.com\/thesis\">&#8220;Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms,&#8221;<\/a> a two-or-more-dimensional arrangement of reconfigurable texts. Like a conservative child reacting against his liberal parents, the <i>ebr<\/i> article is linear, but that should offer an helpful complement to the machinations of the thesis. The article reels back to long before the 20th century avant-garde to find recombinatory text machines and perspectives on reading that are relevant to the digital age. I highly recommend the <i>ebr<\/i> piece to those working with ergodic texts and operating today&#8217;s textual computer machines. It will hopefully serve as a nice gateway drug, too, interesting more readers in Trettien&#8217;s combinatory thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted at ebr (Electronic Book Review) is Whitney Anne Trettien&#8217;s article &#8220;Computers, Cut-ups, and Combinatory Volvelles.&#8221; (We already love computers and cut-ups, but be aware that volvelles are extremely cool.) Some illustrations are still to come, but the article&#8217;s text and references are now up &#8230; I believe in link early, link often. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/06\/wheel-make-you-texts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wheel Make You Texts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,57,17,41,64,36,42,13],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-cms","tag-digital","tag-history","tag-materiality","tag-mit","tag-web","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}