2x6 (Global Poetics) - Softcover

Montfort, Nick; Bouchardon, Serge; Campana, Andrew; Fedorova, Natalia; Leon, Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934254673 ISBN 13: 9781934254677

Verlag: Les Figues Pr, 2016

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Reseña del editor:

Poetry. Translation Studies. 2x6 consists of short "stanzories"—stanzas that are also stories, each one relating an encounter between two people. Appearing in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Polish, the stanzories are generated by a similar underlying process, even as they do not correspond to one another the way a translation typically does to a source text. These sixfold verses are generated by six short computer programs, the code of which is also presented in full. These simple programs can endlessly churn out combinatorial lines that challenge to reader to determine to whom "she" and "he," and "him" and "her," refer, as well as which is the more powerful one, which the underdog. As John Cayley writes, "Gender is the chief generative obstacle here—making more than two times six—distributed across the natural grammars of these micro- dramas, with their psychosocial, vocational, and hierarchical narrative vectors."

Biografía del autor:

Nick Montfort lives in New York City and Boston and is a professor at MIT. He is an author or editor of a dozen books and developed, individually or in collaboration, more than fifty digital art and poetry projects.

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• Verlag: Les Figues Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1934254673
• ISBN 13: 9781934254677
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255