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'''Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines


Special Issue # 28


The Reader'''
[[Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback|Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback]]<br>


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This reader is a resource. These texts provide references and examples of practice which give context for your work on Special Issue # 28.  
'''Special Issue # 28'''<br>
'''The Reader'''<br>
This reader is a resource. These texts provide references and examples of practice which give context for your work on Special Issue # 28. You won't be expected to read ALL these texts! We will devote time in the Methods classes (and at the AnnotationStation) to read and annotate some of them. They are here to enrich the discourse we develop over the course of producing Special Issue # 28.<br><br>




'''The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader
The ONLINE version is here: https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/shelf/111
–Weeks 1-4: Alphabet as Software'''


Ursula Le Guin - A Rant About Technology (200*)
'''Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback Reader'''<br>


Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011)–


Italo Calvino – Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)
Ursula Le Guin - A Rant About Technology (2005)<br>


Walter J. Ong – Orality and Literacy (1982)  
Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011) <br>


Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman – Information Ages, Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution (2000)– Orality and The Problems of Memory.
N. Katherine Hayles – Postprint (2021) – Introducing Postprint


N. Katherine Hayles – Writing Machines (2002) Technotexts and Media Specific Analysis<br><br>


Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970)


William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin
Amaranth Borsuk – The Book (2018) – The Book as Object<br>


Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013)
Walter J. Ong – Orality and Literacy (1982) [Library]<br>


William Burroughs  – The Electronic Revolution (c.1970);
Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman – Information Ages, Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution (2000)– Orality and The Problems of Memory. <br>


Steve Rushton – The Fabulous Loop de Loop –Time Binding and Time Scrambling (2024)
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montford – Output – an Anthology of Computer Generated Text 1953-2023 (2024) – ELIZA (1966), ZORK (1979), THE Listeners (2016)<br>


Extracts from Radical Software (1969-74)
<br><br>


Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2019)


Oulipo [Ouvroir de las Litterature Potentieelle]: A Primer of Potential Literature, includes these texts:<br>


OuliPo Group (Ouvroir de las Litterature Potentieelle) (1960s)
Harry Mathews – Liminal Poem to Martin Gardner<br>


Harry Mathews – Liminal Poem to Martin Gardner
Michael Winkler – Where Signs Resemble Thoughts <br>


Michael Winkler – Where Signs Resemble Thoughts
Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961)<br>
 
Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967)
(HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)<br>
 
Paul Fournel – The Theatre Tree: A Combinatory Play<br>
 
Marcel Benabou – Rule of Constraint (c. 1984)<br>
 
Georges Perec – The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise<br>
 
Italo Calvino – Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)<br>
 
 
Jonathan Bailleche – The Digital Reception of A Hundred Thousand Million Poems (2021)<br><br>


Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961)


Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967)
Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970)<br>
(HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)


Paul Fournel – The Theatre Tree: A Combinatory Play
William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin<br>


Marcel Benabou – Rule of Constraint (c. 1984)
Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013)<br>


William Burroughs – Nova Express (1961-66) – extracts (p173-190)<br>


William Burroughs – Time (1966)<br>


J.R.Meehan Tale-Spin, an interactive program that writes stories (1977)  
William Burroughs – The Invisible Generation (c. 1961)<br><br>


N. Katherine Hayles –Writing Machines (2002) – Material Metaphors; Technotexts


Gregory Bateson – Cybernetic Explanation (1967)
Alison Knowles – House of Dust (1967) – on line version– https://nickm.com/memslam/the_house_of_dust.html<br>


Ursula K. LeGuin – Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986)
Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2019)<br>
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)
N. Katherine Hayles – Writing Machines (2002)
Charlie Gere – Digital Culture (2002)– The Digital Avant Garde


James Meehan – Tale-Spin, an interactive program that writes stories (1977) <br>


'''• The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader
James Meehan – Tailspin (1977) – output<br>
–Weeks 5-7: 20th Century Practice - 21st Century Context'''


Will Crowther and Don Woods – Adventure (1977)<br>


Radical Software (1969-74) Issues 1 and 2<br>


Jennette Winterton – AI, Alternative Intelligence (2025)
Gregory Bateson – Cybernetic Explanation (1967)<br><br>
Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025)
Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans
Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (2004)– Timeline: The Mechanisation of Thinking; Time Line: The Evolution of Intelligence.


Ursula K. LeGuin – Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986)<br>
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)<br>
Ursula K. LeGuin – She Unnames Them (1984)<br>


N. Katherine Hayles – My Mother Was a Computer (2000)– Speech, Writing, Code 
Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) –Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor
John Markoff, What the Doremouse Said, How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)– Augmentation
Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron – The Californian Ideology (1995) 
John C. Lily, M.D. The Human Biocomputer (1974), extract;
Dr. Gordon Pask & Susan Curran, Maverick Machines, from Microman, Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (1982), extract;


'''• The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –
Weeks 8-12: Reading Ideology: Current Practices - Future Models'''


The Protocols-Feedback-WritingMachines Reader –Weeks 7-13, Augmented Reader
Jennette Winterton – OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving – Observer (March 2025)<br>
Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025)<br>


Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans<br>
Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour<br>
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna – The AI Con (2025)– Leisure for Me, Gig Work for Thee:AI Hype at Work.<br>
Emily M. Bender et al – On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (2022)<br>


Richard Brautigan – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1967)<br>
N. Katherine Hayles – Detoxifying Cybernetics: From Homeostasis to Autopoiesis and Beyond (2024)<br>
Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) –Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor <br>
John Markoff, What the Doremouse Said, How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)– Augmentation<br>
Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron – The Californian Ideology (1995)<br><br>
John C. Lily, M.D. The Human Biocomputer (1974); <br>
Dr. Gordon Pask & Susan Curran, Maverick Machines, from Microman, Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (1982);


Links to texts that are best navigated with HTML


=='''OuliPo Media'''==<br>
=='''OuliPo Media'''==<br>
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https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/a/a2/Raymond_Queneau_Exercises_in_Style.pdf
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/a/a2/Raymond_Queneau_Exercises_in_Style.pdf


Roland Bathes – Death of The Author (1967) as sound file bundle
Roland Bathes – Death of The Author (1967) read as sound file bundle (Xpub 2024)<br>
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio


https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/22/richard-beard-universal-turing-machine<br>
Memoir based on the method used in Life a User's Manual<br>




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detrumpify
detrumpify
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detrumpify/hfhaalldkgmfbjjehkiddheghljjdjln
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detrumpify/hfhaalldkgmfbjjehkiddheghljjdjln
=='''AI Media'''==<br>
Jeanette Winterson– Is humanity smart enough to survive itself? (2022) In which the writer asks: Is human consciousness obliged to materiality?<br>
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanette_winterson_is_humanity_smart_enough_to_survive_itself/transcript
plus +<br>
'Travesty Generator Lillian-Yvonne Bertram'<br>
https://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/travesty-generator/<br>
Talk:Lillian-Yvonne Bertram<br>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofwdzTX3zfc<br>
Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (Hardcopy)<br>
https://parnassusbooks.net/book/9780262549813
<br> Bowie and cut ups 4 mins in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZwKl2nSRU&list=PLA4DA50A409E1D5E9&index=2
[[Category: SI28]]

Latest revision as of 21:45, 30 November 2025


Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback

LivingBrainOriginal1964.png

Special Issue # 28
The Reader
This reader is a resource. These texts provide references and examples of practice which give context for your work on Special Issue # 28. You won't be expected to read ALL these texts! We will devote time in the Methods classes (and at the AnnotationStation) to read and annotate some of them. They are here to enrich the discourse we develop over the course of producing Special Issue # 28.


The ONLINE version is here: https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/shelf/111

Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback Reader


Ursula Le Guin - A Rant About Technology (2005)

Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011)

N. Katherine Hayles – Postprint (2021) – Introducing Postprint

N. Katherine Hayles – Writing Machines (2002) Technotexts and Media Specific Analysis


Amaranth Borsuk – The Book (2018) – The Book as Object

Walter J. Ong – Orality and Literacy (1982) [Library]

Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman – Information Ages, Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution (2000)– Orality and The Problems of Memory.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montford – Output – an Anthology of Computer Generated Text 1953-2023 (2024) – ELIZA (1966), ZORK (1979), THE Listeners (2016)




Oulipo [Ouvroir de las Litterature Potentieelle]: A Primer of Potential Literature, includes these texts:

Harry Mathews – Liminal Poem to Martin Gardner

Michael Winkler – Where Signs Resemble Thoughts

Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961)

Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967) (HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)

Paul Fournel – The Theatre Tree: A Combinatory Play

Marcel Benabou – Rule of Constraint (c. 1984)

Georges Perec – The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise

Italo Calvino – Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)


Jonathan Bailleche – The Digital Reception of A Hundred Thousand Million Poems (2021)


Brion Gysin – Cut-Up Self-Explained (1970)

William Burroughs – The Cut-Up Methods of Brion Gysin

Oliver Harris – Introduction to William Burroughs’ Nova Express (1964) (2013)

William Burroughs – Nova Express (1961-66) – extracts (p173-190)

William Burroughs – Time (1966)

William Burroughs – The Invisible Generation (c. 1961)


Alison Knowles – House of Dust (1967) – on line version– https://nickm.com/memslam/the_house_of_dust.html

Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot – House of Dust Journal (2019)

James Meehan – Tale-Spin, an interactive program that writes stories (1977)

James Meehan – Tailspin (1977) – output

Will Crowther and Don Woods – Adventure (1977)

Radical Software (1969-74) Issues 1 and 2

Gregory Bateson – Cybernetic Explanation (1967)

Ursula K. LeGuin – Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986)
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)
Ursula K. LeGuin – She Unnames Them (1984)


Jennette Winterton – OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving – Observer (March 2025)
Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025)

Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans
Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna – The AI Con (2025)– Leisure for Me, Gig Work for Thee:AI Hype at Work.
Emily M. Bender et al – On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (2022)

Richard Brautigan – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1967)
N. Katherine Hayles – Detoxifying Cybernetics: From Homeostasis to Autopoiesis and Beyond (2024)
Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) –Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor
John Markoff, What the Doremouse Said, How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)– Augmentation
Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron – The Californian Ideology (1995)

John C. Lily, M.D. The Human Biocomputer (1974);
Dr. Gordon Pask & Susan Curran, Maverick Machines, from Microman, Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (1982);


==OuliPo Media==

Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967) –HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)

EXERCISES IN STYLE by Raymond Queneau Translated by Barbara Wright with new exercises translated by Chris Clarke https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/a/a2/Raymond_Queneau_Exercises_in_Style.pdf

Roland Bathes – Death of The Author (1967) read as sound file bundle (Xpub 2024)
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/22/richard-beard-universal-turing-machine
Memoir based on the method used in Life a User's Manual


==Burroughs media:==

By
1963 Anthony Balch William Burroughs Towers Open Fire HD
https://archive.org/details/info_alibros_Info_201906
The spoken word. William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin - Cut-ups self-explained (43 mins in)
I am this painter -Brion Gysin (47 mins in)
https://archive.org/details/youtube-dW0VQq94vO4
Brion Gysin
I Am 1960
https://archive.org/details/youtube-RnMKF5Zyc-0
The Cut Ups 1966
https://archive.org/details/youtube-Uq_hztHJCM4/The_Cut_Ups_1966_William_S._Burroughs-Uq_hztHJCM4.mkv
The Cut Up Films (1966?)
Time travel (2 mins in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTN5FNSpTU

About

Reframed- The Most Important Writer You Don't Want to Read (comprehensive [but moralistic?] overview of Burroughs Naked Lunch-Cut-Up period).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSxP4PZ2sf8

Barry Miles (Burroughs biographer) on Burroughs in London (7.30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqShSodSF4
Barry Miles Autobiography of Burroughs (13 mins= ‘question everything’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jCdcMHK10
Gavin Young – Demystifying Burroughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHx7soKPbQo
detrumpify https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detrumpify/hfhaalldkgmfbjjehkiddheghljjdjln

==AI Media==
Jeanette Winterson– Is humanity smart enough to survive itself? (2022) In which the writer asks: Is human consciousness obliged to materiality?
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanette_winterson_is_humanity_smart_enough_to_survive_itself/transcript


plus +

'Travesty Generator Lillian-Yvonne Bertram'
https://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/travesty-generator/
Talk:Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofwdzTX3zfc
Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (Hardcopy)
https://parnassusbooks.net/book/9780262549813
Bowie and cut ups 4 mins in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZwKl2nSRU&list=PLA4DA50A409E1D5E9&index=2

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