Subject Index

• 140 characters, 8, 12

• Access tokens, 96

• Affordances, 142
• AI, symbolic, 113
• Aleatoric tradition, 11
• Alphaville, 237, 263
• Analogy, 133
• Analyze Words (website), 164, 225
• Antialiasing, 212
• Antonyms, 120
• Application programming interface (API), 4, 63, 91, 95, 228
  • REST, 94
• Aptness, 131, 133
• Aristotle, 4, 132
  • Poetics, The, 132
• Art, 201
  • found art, 157
• Artifacts, 59
• Authentication, 92
• Automata, cellular, 207

• Babbage, Charles, 25
• Bakkila, Jacob, 39
• Barbarella, 221
• Behan, Brendan, 174
• Benchley, Robert, 2
• Bergson, Henri, 152
• Bhatnagar, Ranjit, 6
• Bibliomancy, 303
• Big Ben, 29
• Big Lebowski, The, 10, 199, 240
• Big Mac, 8
• Bisociation, 116
• Blackjack, 67
• Blade Runner, 237, 240, 263
• Bletchley Park, 14, 140
• Blinkers, 208
• Boden, Margaret, 110
• Bogost, Ian, 282
• Bookends (to a story), 262
• Borderlands, 68
• Borges, Jorge Luis, 15, 61, 318
  • “Library of Babel, The,” 16, 61
• Bots, 29
  • #botally, 42, 169, 277, 280, 293
  • community, 276
  • controversy, 30, 38, 59
  • eBooks, 35, 36
  • Feed, 30
  • honeybot, 286
  • Interactor, 34, 39
  • Learner, 41
  • malicious, 6, 46, 48, 308
  • mashup, 37
  • protest, 300
  • registration of, 95
  • second-order, 148
  • Statement, 43
  • taxonomy of, 30, 32, 36, 41, 43, 45
  • Watcher, 32, 309
• Bot Summit, 275
• Braitenberg, Valentino, 134
• Bricolage, 21
• Brodsky, Jonathan, 178
• Brough, Michael, 200
• Buckenham, George, 70, 80, 284
• #BuildTheWall, 122
• Bullshit, 299
• Burroughs, William S., 40, 168, 298
• Byron, Baron George Gordon (Lord), 25

• Call
  • to adventure, 105
  • and response, 273
• Callbacks, 95
• Callich, Tyler, 222
• Campbell, Joseph, 241
• Capote, Truman, 17
• Case-based reasoning, 73
• CBDQ, 70, 284, 298
• Cell death, 208
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 8, 153
• Chandler, Raymond, 128, 238
• Chatterbox syndrome, 20, 38
• Cheap Bots Done Quick (website), 70, 284, 298
• CHEF (bot), 73
• Chiasmus, 20
• Chomsky, Noam, 31, 145, 233
• CIE LAB (color space), 154
• Clarke, Arthur C., 14
• Clickbait, 34, 47, 310
• Clinton, Hillary, 165
• Cloze tests, 131
• Cocktail party syndrome, 20
• Coen brothers, 199
• Cohen, Leonard, 312
• Colbert, Stephen, 174, 225
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 297

• ColorAutomaton

  (class), 219
• Colour Lovers (website), 156, 159, 230
• Comic, 152
• Community (of bot-builders), 276
• Comparatives, 121
• Comprehensibility, 130
• Compton, Kate, 68, 70, 88, 284, 299
• ConceptNet, 152
• Conceptual blends, 271
• Conrad, Joseph, 240
• Constraints
  • search, 110
  • semantic, 56
• Consulting the Oracle, 305
• Consumer key, 95
• Conviction, bots of, 300
• Conway, John, 207
• Cook, William Wallace, 244, 317
• Corpora, 279
• Corpus, 56, 62, 81
• Cosine similarity, 149
• Countdown, 291
• Covfefe, 79
• Craps, 66
• Creativity, 5, 110
  • metacreativity, 5
  • transformational, 110
• Crowdflower (website), 130
• Crowdsourcing, 130
• Cutup method, 40, 246

• Dalhousie, Lord, 3
• Davidson, Donald, 128
• DBpedia (website), 293
• de Bono, Edward, 303
• Decommissioning, 59
• Desserts

  • DessertMaker

    (class), 76
  • generator of, 90
  • Just Desserts (Tracery grammar), 76
  • list of, 75
• Diachronic behavior, 101
• Dick, Philip K., 240, 295
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 240, 337n6
  • Man in the High Castle, The, 295, 302–304
• Dictionary
  • dream, 146, 162
  • rhyming, 86
  • Wordnik, 63, 151, 279
• Direct messages (DM), 96
• Divergence (in thinking), 111
• Doggerel, 80
• Dorsey, Jack, 7, 29
• Dreams, 128
  • dictionary of, 146, 162
• Dubbin, Rob, 35, 170, 178
• Duchamp, Marcel, 157
• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), 64, 286, 304

• EDI (Stealth), 42
• Educated insolence, 4, 314
• ELIZA (software), 36
• Ellroy, James, 5
  • #JamesEllroyStarWars, 5, 106
• Emoji, 181, 231, 258
• Ethics, 46, 49, 280
• Euclidean distance, 171
• Eurydice, 239
• Everett, Edward, 12
• Exquisite corpse, 186

• Facebook, 163, 300
• Fairness, 194
• Feed bots, 30
• Feel Train, 286
• Fénéon, Félix, 10, 301
• #FiftyShadesOfDorianGray, 186
• Fillmore, Charles, 113
• Flickr, 163, 168
• Folktale
  • morphology of, 243
  • multilingual database of, 243
• Follow backs, 46
• Fonda, Jane, 221
• Fontana, 201
• Ford, Harrison, 18
• Forgery, 291
• Fountain (Duchamp), 157
• Fourth wall, breaking the, 269
• FrameNet, 113
• Frames, semantic, 113
• Frankenstein, Victor, 186
• Frankfurt, Harry, 299
• #FreeOlivia, 35
• Freud, Sigmund, 1, 128, 145
• Fry, Stephen, 31

• Game of Life, The, 207
• Gentner, Dedre, 132
• Gettysburg Address, 12
• GIF the Feeling, 282
• Giora, Rachel, 135
• Github, 53
• Gliders, 208
• Godard, Jean-Luc, 237
• Gong Show, The, 23
• Google
  • Knowledge Graph, 93
  • n-grams, 157, 204
• Grammar, 56, 71
  • context-free, 71
  • context-sensitive, 72
  • police, 34
  • replacement, 71
  • semantic, 56
  • Tracery, 70, 82, 124, 162, 196, 235, 272, 284, 294, 299, 321
  • visual, 221
• Graphs, conceptual, 138
• Gray, Dorian, 163
  • #FiftyShadesOfDorianGray, 186
• Grep, 109
• Guardian, 66, 230
• Guilford, J. P., 111
• Gysin, Brion, 40, 168

• Hackers, 6
• HAL 9000, 299
• Hamlet (Shakespeare), 123, 143, 241
• Hammond, Kristian, 73
• Handcrafted representations, 62
• Hansen, Tully, 178
• Harry Potter (Rowling), 188
• Hashtag, 5
  • #botally, 42, 169, 277, 280, 293
  • #BuildTheWall, 122
  • colonization, 311
  • #DonaldTrump, 104
  • #FiftyShadesofDorianGray, 186
  • #Free Olivia, 35
  • #Irony, 164
  • #JamesEllroyStarWars, 5, 106
  • #MakeItHappy, 283
  • #PaintMySoul, 228
  • #Sarcasm, 164
  • #ThingsJesusNeverSaid, 106
  • #ThingsMosesNeverSaid, 117
  • #ThingsYodaNeverSaid, 106
• Hayes, Bradley, 168
• Hemingway, Ernest, 1
• Hero
  • with a thousand faces, 241
  • visual metaphor, 224
• Hexagram, 303
• Historicity, 296
• Hjelmslev, Louis, 233
• Hodge, Susie, 201
• Hogwarts houses, 189
• Homer, 155
• Honeybots, 286
• Hulk, 103
• Hyde, Marina, 231
• Hydrocephalus, 20
• Hydrogen bomb, 2
• Hyperspace, 117
• Hypertext, 238

• Iambic pentameter, 6
• IBM, 100, 237, 248
• I Ching, 303–307
• IDE (interactive development environment), 79
• Idioms, rendering with, 258
  • idiom savants, 14
• Imagination, 271
• Ingredients, list of, 75
• Innovation, optimal, 135
• Instagram, 51, 163
• Interactor bots, 34, 39
• Interdimensional cable TV, 320
• iPod, 135
• #Irony, 164

• #JamesEllroyStarWars, 5, 106
• Java, 72, 91
• Jaws, 127
• Jobs, Steve, 262, 295
• Joyce, James, 1, 240
• JULIA (software), 73
• Jurassic Park, 271
• Just Desserts (Tracery grammar), 76

• Kael, Pauline, 18
• Kane, John, 290
• Kaspersky (company), 48
• Kazemi, Darius, 13, 178, 275, 276
  • bot etiquette, 46–48, 280–282
  • Corpora, 279
  • cutup method, 39, 40, 171
  • Feel Train, 286
  • honeybots, 43, 286
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30
  • Sorting Hat, 189
  • tiny subversions, 6, 24, 326n12
  • Wordnik, 63, 129
• Kenny G, 135
• Kerouac, Jack, 17
• Keys, 95
  • access, 96
  • consumer, 95
  • secret, 95, 96
• Klondike Space, 218
• Knowledge, 134
  • engineering, 5
  • gradient, 136
  • handcrafting, 62

• KnowledgeBaseModule

  (class), 93, 115, 118, 136
• Knowledge Graph (Google), 93
• Koestler, Arthur, 116
• Kolodner, Janet, 73
• Kremlin, 44
• “Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 297

• Language, 21, 31, 135, 233
  • formal analysis of, 100
• Latent Dirichlet Allocation, 149, 173
• Laurie, Hugh, 31
• Law of downhill invention, 134
• Law of uphill analysis, 134
• Learner bots, 41
• LEGO, 50, 93
• Le Guin, Ursula K., 64
• Leonardo da Vinci, 262
• Lévy flight, 217
• “Library of Babel, The” (Borges), 15, 61, 100
• Lincoln, Abraham, 12
• Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), 164
• Logic, 128
• Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, 168
• Lovelace, Countess Ada, 25, 88, 132, 246
• Lublin, David, 161
• Lucas, George, 18, 240, 261, 271
• Lucknow, 3
• Lynch, David, 229

• MacFarlane, Seth, 173
• MacGuffin, 242
• Magic Circle, 25
• #MakeItHappy, 283
• Man in the High Castle, The (Dick), 295, 302–304
• Mankoff, Robert, 194
• Mashups, 37
• Markov text generation (MTG), 37
• Martin, Steve, 11
• Masked Magician, 26
• Matins, Le (Paris), 10
• Matrix, The, 237, 241
• McClure, Andi, 200
• McKean, Erin, 279
• McKeganey, Neil, 21
• McKesson, DeRay, 287
• McNally, Lotte, 169
• Meta
  • creativity, 5, 24
  • narrative, 296
  • rule, 214
  • satire, 315
• Metadata, 139
• Metaphor, 127, 132, 145, 154, 195
  • deliberate, 195
  • generation, 227
  • visual, 204
• Metaphor magnet, 152
• Meter (poetic), 82, 84
  • iambic pentameter, 6
• Microsoft, 41, 135
• Mirroring (of images), 213
• Moby-Dick (Melville), 61
• Monomyth, 241
• Moore, Alan, 239
  • Watchmen, 239, 337n4
• Morality, 120, 124
  • exemplars, 117
• Moral maze, 120, 124
• Morpheus, 241
• Morse, Samuel, 2
• Moses, 119
• Mystery Men, 19

• Napier, Charles, 2
• NASA, 200
• National Rifle Association (NRA), 44, 153
• National Security Agency (NSA), 44
• Nelson, Ted, 238
• Neo, 241
• Neologisms, 89
• Networks, neural, 168
• New Testament, 106
• N-grams (web/Google), 156, 204, 208
• Nixon, Richard, 267
• No Man’s Sky, 68
• Non-official characterization (NOC) list, 136, 191, 246, 263, 314
• Nonterminals, 74
• Norman, Donald, 278
• Norris, Chuck, 227
• Novelty, 131

• Oatmeal, ten thousand bowls of, 68
• Obama, Barack, 224, 286
• O’Brien, Flann, 238, 318
• Ontologies, 115
• Oppenheimer, Robert, 238
• Origin rule, 73
• Orpheus, 239
• Orwell, George, 24
• Oswalt, Patton, 5
• Oudh, 3
• Oulipo, 107, 110
• OWL (Web Ontology Language), 138

• #PaintMySoul, 228
• Parker, Dorothy, 302
• Parrish, Allison, 30, 200, 220, 278
• Pash, Adam, 283
• Patreon, 286
• “Peccavi
• Pennebaker, James, 164
• Perceptual differentiation, 69
• Perkins, David, 218
• Perkins, Maxwell, 1
• Pet Sounds (Tracery grammar), 88
• Photography, 51
• Picasso, Pablo, 18
• Pinterest, 163
• Pipkin, Katie Rose, 221
• PleaseRespectTables (Reddit bot), 45
• Plots, 245
• Plotto, 244, 317
• Poetics, The (Aristotle), 132
• Poetry, 80
  • generation, 80
  • meter, 6, 82
  • poetical science, 25, 88, 275
• Pollock, Jackson, 158, 201
• Possibility space, 59, 67, 68, 87, 92, 100, 123, 148, 215

• postTweet

  (method), 99
• Predestination, character, 274
• President of the United States (POTUS), 109
• Pretense, 296
• PRISM (NSA program), 44
• Probability theory, 66
• Profanity, 282
• Propaganda, computational, 311
• Propp, Vladimir, 243
• Protest, bots that, 300
• Pseudo-logic, 128
• Pubs, English, 55
• Punch (magazine), 3
• Punching up, 49
• Python, 72, 91

• Quayle, Dan, 3
• Queneau, Raymond, 107

• Randomness, 64, 207, 213, 304
• Rate limiting, 47
• Readymades, 157
• Reddit (website), 45
• Reed, Nora, 286, 298
• Registration of bots, 95
• Rendering, idiomatic, 258
• Resource Description Framework (RDF), 138
• RESTful API, 94
• Retweet, 7
• Reverb, 279
• RGB (color space), 15, 153, 204, 230
• Richardson, Leonard, 49, 284, 292
• Rick and Morty, 320
• Riesling, 135
• Rigidity, comic, 152
• Riley, Bridget, 158, 201
• Rivera, Geraldo, 233
• Romero, George A., 308
• Rorschach blots, 208
• “Roses are Red
• Rothenberg, Matthew, 186
• Rothko, Mark, 158, 201
• Rotten Tomatoes (website), 178
• Rowling, J. K., 189
  • Harry Potter, 188, 189
  • Hogwarts houses, 189
  • Voldemort, Lord, 171

• Sample, Mark, 300
• Sankin, Aaron, 171
• Santé, Luc, 10
• #Sarcasm, 164
• Scéalextric, 253
• Schmidt, Loren, 221
• Schwartz, Ellen, 21
• Science
  • a new kind of, 211
  • poetical, 25, 88, 246, 275
• Search
  • constraints, 110
  • in Twitter, 98
• Searle, John, 154
• Seelbach hotel/cocktail, 297
• Selfies, 163
• Semantics
  • frames, 113
  • knowledge, 93, 113
  • networks, 115, 138
  • triples, 93, 293
• Semantic Web, 115, 138
• Semiotics, 237
• Sentiment analysis, 164
• Sex, 31, 34
• Shakespeare, William, 123, 135
  • Hamlet, 123, 143, 241
• Similes, web, 162
• Snapchat, 51
• Sondheim, Stephen, 240
• Sorting Hat, 189, 335n15
• Sphinx, 20
• Spielberg, Steven, 127
• Spreadsheet, 93
• Staircase wit, 2
• Standage, Tom, 4
• Stanton, Courtney, 286
• Star Trek, 221
• Star Wars, 5, 18
• Statement bots, 43
• Status update, 7
• Stealth (film), 42
  • EDI, 42
• Steen, Gerard, 195
• Stereotypes, 105
• Still life, 207
• Stone, Biz, 8
• Stories, 240, 296
  • generation grammar, 273
  • as races, 252
• Streaming (on Twitter), 228
• Style
  • exercises in, 107
  • transfer, 291
• Sublime, 31, 64, 302
• Sunset Boulevard, 261
• Superlatives, 121
• Symbol grounding, 154
• Symmetry (in images), 213

• Tab-separated values (TSV), 75
• Tarzan (film), 237
• Tay (Microsoft bot), 41
• Telegrams, 1
• Teller, Edward, 2
• Ten Commandments, 119
• Terms of service, 33, 34, 47
• Tesla, Nikola, 247
• #ThingsJesusNeverSaid, 106
• #ThingsMosesNeverSaid, 117
• #ThingsYodaNeverSaid, 106
• Thompson, Stith, 243
• Thricedotted, 34
• Timeline, 92
• Tiny subversions, 6
• Tolkien, J. R. R., 64
• Topicality, 148
• Tracery, 70, 82, 124, 162, 196, 235, 272, 284, 294, 299, 321
• Tribbiani, Joey, 227
• “Tricky Linguistics” (sketch), 31
• Triple
  • semantic, 93, 115, 293
  • stores, 93
• Trump, Donald, 104, 312
  • #BuildTheWall, 122
  • Covfefe, 79
  • #DonaldTrump, 104
  • President of the United States (POTUS), 109
  • @realDonaldTrump, 164, 307
• Truth
  • truthiness, 225
  • value, 128
• Tumblr, 46
• Turing, Alan, 22, 132, 140, 143, 250
• Turing Test, 22
• TV Tropes (website), 246

• TweetLaunchpad

  (class), 92, 101
• Twitter4J, 92, 97, 228
• Twitter Counter (website), 173, 226

• TwitterFactory

  (class), 97

• Underwood, Frank, 267
• Unicode, 222
• Uniqueness, 68

• van der Goot, Jeffry, 59
• Vector spaces, 171
• Victorian Internet, 4
• Virus (metaphor), 197
• Vogler, Christopher, 241
• Voldemort, Lord, 171
• von Braun, Wernher, 238
• “Vovi

• Wabi-sabi (Japanese term), 301
• Warhol, Andy, 185
• Watcher bots, 32, 309
• Watchmen (Moore), 239
• Watson (IBM computer), 100
• Web Ontology Language (OWL), 138
• Weizenbaum, Joseph, 36
• Western Union, 7
• WikiHow (website), 34
• Wilde, Oscar, 302
• Wilder, Billy, 261
• Winfrey, Oprah, 141
• Williams, Evan, 8
• Winkworth, Catherine, 3
• Wolfram, Stephen, 211
  • code, 211
• Wonka, Willy, 308
• Wordfilter, 281
• Wordnik (website), 63, 151, 279
• Wu (Japanese term), 301

• XML, 138
• XYZ metaphors, 144

• Yeats, W. B., 111
• Yoda, 106
• Yorke, John, 241

• Zombies, 308
• Zoom, dolly, 127
• Zune, 135
• Zymurgy, 32