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“Electrónicolírica” por Herberto Helder y PO.EX Combinatorics

February 14, 2019March 24, 2015 by Álvaro Seiça

electronico-lirica — Recurso abierto sobre *Electrónico-Lírica*
por Herberto Helder

Nota del editor: Herberto Helder falleció el lunes 23 de marzo de 2015. Para honrar a su legado poético, queremos celebrar una de sus obras con esta entrada de Álvaro Seiça.

Herberto Helder es uno de los poetas portugueses más consistentes e innovadores de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. A pesar de que sus obras posteriores hayan sido marcadas por una reelaboración tradicional experimentalista del lenguaje elaborado, cuya poiesis se relaciona con un vocabulario muy idiosincrático, uno no debe olvidar la trayectoria ecléctica de Helder. Habiendo sido influenciado por, entre otros movimientos, el surrealismo y el experimentalismo vanguardista internacional, Herberto Helder fue, en primer lugar, junto con António Aragão (1964), y en segundo lugar con Aragão y E. M. de Melo e Castro (1966), editor de dos importantes antologías o cadernos, Poesia Experimental 1 y Poesia Experimental 2 . Ambas antologías abrieron la mayoría de los caminos principales del experimentalismo literario y artístico durante la década del 1960, adonde surgió el movimiento PO.EX (la poesía experimental). Varios géneros, temas formales y temáticos se probaron originalmente en estas dos antologías y el trabajo posterior del movimiento, específicamente la poesía concreta y visual, la ‘poesía cinematográfica’, la poesía fonética, la ‘poesía de objetos’, la ‘acción poética’ y el “happening.” Como lo destaca Helder en su primer editorial (“Introdução”) de los cadernos:

“Word Crimes” by Weird “Al” Yankovic and Jarrett Heather

March 13, 2019December 29, 2014 by Héctor López

Open “Word Crimes” by “Weird Al” Yankovic and Jarrett Heather

“Word Crimes” is an official music video designed and animated by Jarrett Heather for “Weird Al” Yankovic. The video uses kinetic typography and evocative visual images to reinforce the didactic tone. The song is a parody of Robin Thicke’s own “Blurred Lines” employing its catchy tune, lyric structure, and even typography (as in the case of the hashtags) repurposed tosatirizes common ways that language is used incorrectly in writing.

“Deal With It” Meme by Matt Furie and You

December 28, 2014 by Jonathan Negron

“Deal with it” is a meme based on a popular phrase or expression that uses image macros and/or animated GIFs as a snarky response when someone else notes disapproval, most frequently used online forums or social networks. This meme is characterized by an image of an iconic person, celebrity, or event, accompanied by the descending of sunglasses upon the subject’s face and revealing a caption which says “Deal with it.”

“Bust Down the Doors!” by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

December 27, 2014 by Sophia Caraballo

15496_heavy_bustdownthedoor_533 — Open “Bust Down the Doors! by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Versions: English, German, French

“Bust Down the Doors!”, a videopoem by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, opens with a countdown, preparing the reader to the challenge he or she is about to encounter. Quick flashing words that compose the poem begin to blink in and out of the screen, daring the reader to catch each word properly and keep up to rhythm. The contrast of the black letters against a white background creates an almost hypnotizing pattern to this race. This format is repeated in all three different language versions, which are English, German, and French.

“Endless Reader” by Originator

December 25, 2014 by Edcel Cintron

screenshot — Open the “Endless Reader” page.

“Endless Reader” is a children’s mobile application created by Originator, which has developed other recognized apps such as “Endless Numbers” and “Endless Alphabet.” This application is the follow-up to “Endless Alphabet,” integrating sight words with an interactive digital environment with the purpose of allowing children to hear words broken down to their simplest phonetic segments.

Slenderman, The Marble Hornets, and Totheark

December 24, 2014 by Vashti Tacoronte

slenderman-1-708110 Remember those chain emails your most obscure contacts would send you during the wee hours of the night that read something like “IF U DON’T FWD DIS A CREEPY CRAWLY GHOST OF A GIRL WILL COME OUT OF DA CLOSET AND KILL U” ?

Well they’re back. And they’re coming to get you for not forwarding all those emails.

“Blue Hyacinth” by Pauline Masurel and Jim Andrews

July 18, 2014 by Kyle Brett

Screen capture of Blue Hyacinth: M M M M Blue Hyacinth Pauline Masurel Jim Andrews V I S P O Stir Frys Tabitha flexes against the collar . I try to sound as though I know what I'm talking about. in the alleyway. I just like the look of the grey mare; the bookie can tell, it was probably obvious from the moment I walked in. the hyacinth itself or secreted When it happens the noise insists before, ...it goes on for months another in the corner is smoking. She's watching the race . Rather, it's a subtle matter of class, . when she can't gain entry, Across the road clubbers spill out on to the pavements - he comes. he goes. she waits for weeks. after all. she picks her way back across the landing - Do you want this, I could report it slowly, sadly who would care? and begins to stroke it through the sticky tangle of her hair. — Open “Blue Hyacinth” by Pauline Masurel and Jim Andrews

Slightly modifying the “cut-up” technique of Dadaist and Modernist writers in her digital work, “Blue Hyacinth,” Pauline Masurel encourages her readers not to destroy the original four poems, but rather jumble them together, stir them up, and weave them in a way that shares in the creative process of generating an individualized text. By presenting “Blue Hyacinth” as a stir-fry work (using Jim Andrews’ “Stir Fry Texts” framework) that allows readers to reflect on the original poems, Masurel is changing the author-reader relationship. Masurel ensures that readers become extensions of herself by encouraging readers to manipulate her writings and fashion a text that becomes less a traditional example of poetry and more a collaborative piece shared between individual reader and writer. With “Blue Hyacinth,” Masurel crafts a space where traditional print culture roles fade and are replaced by their mutable digital counterparts. Never once just a reader or an author, those that encounter “Blue Hyacinth” are able to exercise a semblance of autonomy that is novel to texts within the digital medium.

“Save the Humanities (@SaveHumanities)” by Mark Sample

June 18, 2014 by Leonardo Flores

Save the Humanities @SaveHumanities Daily tips on how to stop the crisis in the humanities. Real solutions! (Machine Generated by @samplereality) — Open “Save the Humanities (@SaveHumanities)” by Mark Sample

At face value this bot seeks solutions to what many call “the crisis of the Humanities” by offering “tips on how to stop the crisis in the humanities. Real solutions!” Its operation is conceptually straightforward: it completes a sentence template that begins with “To save the humanities, we need to” and then completes the sentence, I imagine with the results of a search in Twitter for tweets that contain “we need to” or “we must.” This creates grammatically correct sentences that offer solutions that vary in their fit or appropriateness. For example:

“Snowclone-a-Minute (@snowcloneminute)” by Bradley Momberger and “Pizza Clones (@pizzaclones)” by Allison Parrish

May 21, 2018June 17, 2014 by Leonardo Flores

These two bots are based on the concept of snowclones, which are a linguistic phenomenon best described by Erin O’Connor in her wonderful blog and resource “The Snowclones Database.”

A snowclone is a particular kind of cliche, popularly originated by Geoff Pullum. The name comes from Dr. Pullum’s much-maligned “If Eskimos have N words for snow, X surely have Y words for Z”. An easier example might be “X is the new Y.” The short definition of this neologism might be n. fill-in-the-blank headline.

Fill in the blank mnemonic phrases? This is ripe for a bot treatment.

Juxtaposition Bots: @TwoHeadlines, @oneiropoiesis, and @AndNowImagine

June 16, 2014 by Leonardo Flores

The three bots reviewed in this entry all carry out essentially the same technique– they create a tweet based on the juxtaposition of material from two different sources– yet produce output that feels quite different. The reasons for this are partly thematic, partly due to the data source, and partly because of the way the join the juxtaposed elements.

An important early bot that uses this technique is Ranjit Bhatnagar’s @Pentametron, which retweets iambic pentameter tweets joined by end rhyme and creating surprisingly cohesive and occasionally humorous couplets. Juxtaposition is also a poetic technique that became prominent with Modernism and is a central strategy in Ezra Pound’s poetry and poetics. This entry will analyze “Two Headlines” by Darius Kazemi, “Dreams, juxtaposed” by Allison Parrish, and “And Now Imagine” by Ivy Baumgarten.