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[curtModerator]

Here is a reading list. Feel free to add to it. I will try to link to actual texts (pdf or html) if possible. If not, I will link to books at amazon.

Also, feel free to link to things at wikipedia. This is a pragmatic investigation, not a rigorously footnoted academic exercise.

None of this is by any means “required” reading, but just a resource, and perhaps a way for us to begin getting on the same page.

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Oulipo entry at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

OuGeneraPo: resonances & affinities between generative art and oulipian writing

http://lab404.com/oulipo

Oulipo: Six Selections
(useful background information, particularly relevant to computing)
download from http://lab404.com/lang/

GltchLnguistx: The Machine in the Ghost / Static Trapped in Mouths

http://lab404.com/glitch/

An essay on glitch + uttered language

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William Burroughs: The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin

http://www.ubu.com/papers/burroughs_gysin.html

Brion Gysin: On Tape Recorder Experiments with William Burroughs

http://www.10111.org/0.php?wakka=TapeRecorderExperiments

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Gregory Ulmer: Applied Grammatology
(on what might be created from Derrida’s understanding of homophonic slippage)
download from http://lab404.com/lang/

Marjorie Perloff: Grammar In Use
(about Wittgenstein, Stein, and Marinetti)
download from http://lab404.com/lang/

Michel de Certeau: Vocal Utopias
(about speaking in tongues)
download from http://lab404.com/lang/

Oulipo Compendium

http://www.amazon.com/Oulipo-Compendium-Harry-Mathews/dp/0974355437/

A useful glossary of Oulipo constraints and terms

Oulipo Laboratory

http://www.amazon.com/Oulipo-Laboratory-Anti-Classics-Raymond-Queneau/dp/0947757899/

Source texts/constraints written by the original Oulipians

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from Cabinet Magazine, Issue 1: two essays on invented languages:

Daniel Rosenberg: Speaking Martian

http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_martian.php

A. S. Bessa: Öyvind Fahlström’s Aviary

http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/bessa.php

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composer Olivier Messiaen‘s relation to birdsong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiaen#Birdsong

[thats_how_i_feelParticipant]

I’m so excited to read these!

[steven_hammerParticipant]

Various manifestos of the zaumniks, a group of Russian Cubo-Futurists concerned with the development of a new, transrational language called zaum.

Zaum information: (the wikipedia article is pretty good, but far from comprehensive)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaum

Burliuk, Kruchenykh, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov (1913): “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”

http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/slap.html

A. Kruchenykh:
“Declaration of the Word as Such” AND
“New Ways of the Word (the language of the future, death to Symbolism)”
I cannot locate either online, but they are published in this text:

http://books.google.com/books/about/Words_in_Revolution.html?id=zhif_LpgBfAC

 

[abillmillerMember]

When I heard about your topic, I couldn’t help but think about Exercises In Style

http://books.google.com/books/about/Exercises_in_Style.html?id=3aPbGd3hkBAC

In this text Queneau rewrites the same narrative through different voices – its like a series of versions. Included are algorithmic process as well as traditional forms like haiku.

 

[curtModerator]

via Adam Trowbridge, more burroughs/gysin:

Burroughs/Gysin: The Third Mind
download from http://lab404.com/lang/

[curtModerator]

also, this is a great essay that Daniel co-wrote on glitch in general >>
Daniel Temkin/Hugh S. Manon: Notes on Glitch

http://worldpicturejournal.com/WP_6/Manon.html

it addresses materiality and process in ways that seems relevant to our thread.

[jonCatesModerator]

4RTCR4X0RZ: Hacking Open Together: New Media Art, Activism and Computer Counter Cultures - jonCates ++ jake elliott (2006)
http://gl1tch.us/4RTCR4X0RZ.html

[curtModerator]

A really great resource by Florian Kramer (I think) on permutational writing:

http://permutations.pleintekst.nl/

It went offline for a while, but now it is back. It’s basically a site that aggregates a bunch of historical methods (gysin, tzara, etc) of permutational writing, and then automates these methods.

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