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May 2007
7 x 9, 520 pp., 18 illus.
$35.95/£26.95 (CLOTH)
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0-262-01233-2
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978-0-262-01233-1

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META/DATA
A Digital Poetics
Mark Amerika

List of Illustrationsix
Series Forewordxi
Preface
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xiii
Acknowledgmentsxix
ISpontaneous Theories
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1
Cyberpsychogeography (An Aimless Drift in Twenty Digressions)3
Portrait of the VJ55
IIDistributed Fictions87
GRAMMATRON89
This Could Be the First Day of the Rest of My Life95
How to Be an Internet Artist101
OK Texts103
Memorandum from the Director of the Office of Political and Economic Insecurity105
10 Comms109
Globalization Is . . .111
Top Ten Reasons Why Net.Art Is Dead113
The . . . Writer . . . as . . . Pseudo-Autobiographical Work-in-Progress115
The Insider’s Guide to Avant-Garde Capitalism
Excelling at the Fine Art of Making Money
125
Natto Girls135
The Random Life of VJ Persona (A Mobile Medium in the Form of a Fiction)145
IIIAcademic Remixes161
Answers to Questions I Have Been Asked
A Technomadic Journey
163
Expanding the Concept of Writing
Notes on Net Art, Digital Narrative, and Viral Ethics
181
Teaching High Techne191
Anticipating the Present
An Artist's Intuition
201
IVImage Écriture209
VNet Dialogues221
WYSIWYG Subjects (with Eugene Thacker)223
Postcinematic Writing (with Adrian Miles)227
Stitch Bitch
The Hypertext Author as Cyborg-Narrator (with Shelley Jackson)
231
Dub Fictions (with Jeff Noon)237
Active/onBlur (with Talan Memmott)241
Hawaiian Net Art (with Dee Kine)251
The Organizational Game (with Amanda McDonald Crowley)255
The Animating Fluid of Cyberspace (with Melinda Rackham)261
Digital Hallucinogens (with John Vega)265
The Loss of Inscription (with Giselle Beiguelman)269
On Being Retro in the Zeroes (with Abe Golam)273
VIAmerika Online277
This Is All I Do Now279
Avant-Pop Manifesto
Thread Baring Itself in Ten Quick Posts
289
Hypertextual Consciousness
Notes toward a Critical Net Practice
295
The Work of Art in the Age of Virtual Republishing and Network Installation317
Network Installations, Creative Exhibitionism, and Virtual Republishing
An Attempt at Conceptualizing the Ongoing Ungoing Story of Being in Cyberspace
319
Cyberspace Installations
Do-It-Yourself Narrative Composition for the '90s
325
Surf-Sample-Manipulate
Playgiarism on the Net
331
Copyleftists
Form and Action in the Network Environment
337
Life Is Elsewhere
Cruising the Antipodal Trajectory
343
Prophesizing Infowar
Creating Expectations in the New Media Economy
349
The Private Life of a Network Publisher357
A Chair Is a Chair Is a Chair
Comments at Convergence
361
The Rhetorical Gesture363
Triptych
Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part One)
367
Triptych
Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Part Two)
373
Blurring Practices
The Work of Art as Public Offering
381
Sonic Upheaval
Using mp3 to Rip the System
389
Para-Sites and Host Connections
An Unconditional Love
395
Writing as Hacktivism
An Intervening Satire
401
Designwriting
A Postliterary Reading Experience
407
What in the World Wide Web Is Happening to Writing?413
What Is a Blog?417
Making History Up
A Serial Question Mark
419
Index
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