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