Word toys : poetry and technics /

An engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works-poetic, novelistic, and programmed-as technical objects With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia, networked, conceptual, and other as-y...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stefans, Brian Kim (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1516440
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Beyond estrangement
  • Playing the field: figures toward a speculative prosody
  • The new commodity: technicity and poetic form
  • Pilots of the pharmakon: bodies, precarity, and the milieu
  • Fictions of immanence: undigests and outsider writing
  • Terrible engines: toward a literature of sets
  • Miscegenated scripts: the gramme and transpacific hybridity
  • Discompositions: troubling ground in graphic design
  • Just ask lattice: a poetics of grids, numbers, and diagrams
  • Appendix: "Objects" in programming and philosophy.