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Here is some netpoetics. I’ve found some at last. Writing digital media. Language-driven digital poesis. Digital poetics even? “Something already ?” (Tom Phillips, A Humument, p. 99)

“The purpose of this writing is to address”
“an edge of chaos.”
“Specifically, the point or points”
“in sequences of words that”
“delimit phrases”
“found to be unique in our”
“most accessible corpus.”

[Google, Sat Oct 3, 2009, completed 10:27am.]

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“The purpose of this writing is to address an”
“is to address an edge of”
“address an edge of chaos”
“an edge of chaos. Specifically,”
“edge of chaos. Specifically, the”
“of chaos. Specifically the point”
“Specifically, the point or points in”
“the point or points in sequences”
“or points in sequences of”
“points in sequences of words”
“in sequences of words that delimit”
“of words that delimit phrases”
“words that delimit phrases found”
“phrases found to be unique”
“found to be unique in our most”
“unique in our most accessible”
“in our most accessible corpus.”

[Google, Thu Oct 1, 2009, completed 9:17am.]

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• Process: Write into the Google search field with text delimited by quote marks until the sequence of words is not found. Record this sequence. Delete words from the beginning of the sequence until the sequence is found. Then add more words to the end of the sequence until it is not found. Repeat.

• Thoughts:   — The sentence used above was composed on the fly and thought out during the process of the experiment. I would now prefer to improve the composition of the sentence/thought and perform the process once again. Especially important since I would like to produce seeded permutations based on the results, viz: — Put the resultant text up on the web and wait while Google indexes it (or not, how do we know?), then perform exactly the same process again, at which point none of the resultant sequences will, any longer, be unique, i.e. they will be found.   — Alternately, don’t put any of the resultant text up on the web and simply perform the same process at a succession of intervals to see how the corpus has changed.   — The rules could be made more complex if attention were paid to, say, concatenations suggested by those searches immediately before the search that finds no results, especially if these searches produce a single result (a Googlewhack).   — Instead of a self-reflexive seed, use something intended to engage with sociocultural/sociopolitical concerns. — Instead of a self-reflexive seed, write with a found text, something pre-composed, authoritative, magisterial, dense, poetic, found (!) none of its sequences should be discovered to be unique. Use a famous (writer’s) text and an unknown (writer’s) text.

• Process 2: Write into the Google search field with text delimited by quote marks until the sequence of words is not found. Delete the rightmost word. Record the text that is found. Continue with the sequent text in your writing. Repeat. Use this method as a way to lineate your text in a set of phrases that are found, that are not unique, that share some properties with (magisterial) text that is found.

• Process 2a: Write into the Google search field with text delimited by quote marks until the sequence of words is not found. Delete the rightmost word. Rewrite the righthand part of the text until it produces only one search result in Google. Then continue with the sequent text in your writing trying as best you can to complete your thought. Repeat.

• Process 3: Write into the Google search field with text delimited by quote marks until the sequence of words is not found. Delete the rightmost word. Record your words together, in turn, with three words that are sequent in in the Google search results. Make these a verse. End the verse with your own sequence (the found one). Continue making such verses until the writing is done.

• Thoughts:   — Begin to note some of the difference between this variety of practice and other conceptualisms. This is not flarf or conceptual poetry (the history of which has now ended thanks to Kent Johnson’s Day). Algorithmic, but decidedly manual, compositional. Compositional also in relation to the media, the interface. Writing digital media. A poetics driven by language (and language use, suddenly and overwhelmingly accessible to us) but also by the inherent, emergent poetics of the net. To program the process would make it less humanly engaged but would make it no more a matter of expressive process (cf. Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s new book).   — Temporality. The process is experimental but cannot (in theory) be repeated. In theory, shortly after I post these texts to netpoetics, they will all be findable by Google. They will have become part of the corpus. Canon fodder. Found.   — Not exhausted by its concept. Couldn’t be. Perhaps because actively and temporally engaged with the media, with the net. Implies rather, a way of writing. Like Baldwin’s digital poetics. But there is, in my approach, an explicit address to literature, to the found. It’s there. I’m writing against it. On an edge of chaos.

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If I write, quoting, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep,” these words will be found. Perhaps they will now always be found. I write, in part, in the hope that what I write will be found.

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“If I write,”
“quoting, ‘And the”
“earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.’ These”
“words will be found.”
“Perhaps they will now”
“always be found.”
“I write, in part, in the hope that”
“what I write will be found.”

[Google, Sat Oct 3, 2009, completed 9:16am.]

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“If I write, quoting,”
“I write, quoting, “And”
“write, quoting, “And the”
“quoting, ‘And the earth”
“‘And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep,’ these words”
“upon the face of the deep,’ these words will”
“deep,’ these words will be found”
“these words will be found. Perhaps”
“will be found. Perhaps they will now”
“Perhaps they will now always”
“they will now always be found”
“will now always be found. I”
“always be found. I write”
“be found. I write, in part”
“I write, in part, in the hope that what”
“in the hope that what I write will be found.”

[Google, Sat Oct 3, 2009, completed 2:04am.]

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“If I write a quote, ‘And”
“the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.’ These highlighted”
“words will be found now.”
“Perhaps they will always have the”
“certainty now of being able to go”
“on being found. I will”
“write, in part, in the hope that”
“what I write will be found valuable.”

[Google, Sat Oct 3, 2009, completed 9:26 - whacks]

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3. Old Southwark and its people … – Google Books Result?by William Rendle – 1878 – History – 333 pages The armorial device of the Borough of Southwark is at the end of the book.8 I must remark that the same words will be found now and then to be diversely … books.google.com/books?id=Rl0JAAAAIAAJ…
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“If I write a”
“If I write to”
“If I write this”
“If I write,”

“quoting, and the development”
“quoting and the OEM”
“quoting and the other”
“quoting, ‘And the”

“earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. These highlighted
“earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. These are”
“earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.’ These two”
“earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.’ These”

“words will be found rapidly”
“words will be found too”
“words will be found. Your”
“words will be found.”

“Perhaps they will now realize”
“Perhaps they will now reconsider”
“Perhaps they will now be”
“Perhaps they will now”

“always be found in”
“always be found picking”
“always be found | lyrics”
“always be found.”

“I write, in part, in the hope that no more lives”
“I write, in part, in the hope that”

“what I write will be found.”

(Knowing in advance there’s no way to conceal …
(valuable to those who are interested. If you disagree …

[Google, Sat Oct 3, 2009, completed 10:21]

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