Poetic Prosthetics, or ‘The Six Million Dollar Poet’
In this short course, students will consider how they are already ‘plugged in’ and extended by contemporary technologies, and what that might mean to their writing practice. You will read through works by a number of contemporary writers who make explicit use of ‘prosthetics’ in the act of writing – and in so doing, complicate the very idea of the ‘author’. From the conceptual purity of Kenneth Goldsmith to historical predecessors like the poetry-writing program RACTER, you will take every opportunity to use the unique resources that having the Internet at our fingertips provides to generate new texts and new ways of thinking about texts.
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