Another 'fundamental' metaphor for what a computer 'is' has been the
card-index and there's an essay by Benjamin, written well before computers,
that suggests that the card-index will have a root level effect on writing.
On 3 April 2010 23:32, Uche Ogbuji <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Looking at a database as fundamentally what a computer is, even the
> > operating system itself, how can art be made with this thing?
> >
>
> Hmm. Isn't a database just an elaboration of the even more fundamental
> concept of a hash table? And isn't a hash table just a computerization of
> anaphora (in the linguistic sense)? And isn't anaphora one of the utter
> foundations of poetry?
>
>
>
> > I liked the solution provided by this approach at:
> > http://thesis.diana-lange.de:
> >
> > Visualizing poetry it says.
> >
>
>
> Wow! That is something! All I would have been able to come up with is the
> poor, pedestrian Wordle
>
> http://www.wordle.net/
>
>
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