Introduction: The literature of exclusion -- Metaphor and metanoia : linguistic transfer, cognitive transformation, and exclusion -- The radical poetics of impersonality : the posthuman, the inhuman, and Dada -- The divine neutrality of the apparatus : the self-reflexive conceptual horror of B. R. Yeager -- "Something is taking its course" : zero-player games, proceduralism, and Samuel Beckett's Endgame -- Blossoming ghost : memetic engineering, hauntology, and metamorphiction in Jeff Noon's Falling out of cars -- Swarm annihilation and supermodern transcendence : chaotics, granular synthesis, and the glitch poetics of Kenji Siratori -- The electronic literature of exclusion and autopoiesis : obsession and fictionalism -- The electronic literature of exclusion and allopoiesis : asemic word processing, technical images, and Allison Parrish's Ahe Thd Yearidy Ti Isa -- Conclusion: Extro-science fiction, hyper-contingent literatures of exclusion, and unthinkable thought.
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"The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration"-- Provided by publisher.
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