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Chance Operations and Randomizers in Avant-garde and Electronic Poetry: Tying Media to Language
- Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation
- Society for Textual Scholarship
- Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 38-56
- Article
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This article explores and compares the use of chance procedures and randomizers in Dada, Surrealism, Russian Futurism, and contemporary electronic poetry. I analyze the role of materiality of media in creating unexpected literary outcomes through a discussion of Freud’s concept of the uncanny and Katherine Hayles’s concept of computation as symptom.