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Exe.cut[up]able statements - Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts
Florian Cramer (NL/DE)
Florian Cramer’s dissertation Exe.cut[up]able statements - Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstausführenden Texts investigates literature—older works as well as contemporary ones—that are based on calculation and algorithms. This text analyses cabbalistic combinations of utterances, word permutations, aleatory (combinational), stochastic (random) and recursive (running in reverse) texts, computer-generated literature as well as the poetics of programming languages and encoding systems. In going about this, calculations and algorithms are regarded as dimensions of language and literature like graphics and phonetics are perceived as dimensions of visual and acoustic compositions. A general characteristic of algorithmic literature is that calculations and algorithms cannot be separated from the text (and its meaning); rather, they possess their own poetics, which is why the text is “self-executing.” Its meaning (semantics) thus refers to the encoding system on which it is based and vice versa. Exe.cut[up]able contains a brief account of the history of this literary genre and also analyses two concrete texts: “Quirinus Kuhlmann’s 17th-century permutational sonnet XLI“ and “Vom Wechsel menschlicher Sachen and mez' _Viro.Logic Condition][ing][ 1.1_” by Libeskuß.
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