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  • by Amitai Romm
  • 73 blocks • a day ago
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  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 330 blocks • a day ago
Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies is a story collection written according to a Tarot deck: the cards are assembled in columns and rows which intersect each other, and the stories are based each on one row or one column of cards. The effect, then, is that also the stories intersect each other; they use the same materials, but the meaning of each card depends on the current story. The collection of stories is yet again an example of multilinearity - the Tarot cards serve as building blocks, of which different combinations and different stories have been put together. Without knowing the technique behind the collection, an unwary reader might easily miss the whole interconnectedness of the stories. But it is not just explained, there are also illustrations of the respective Tarot card tables in the book; in this The Castle of Crossed Destinies very much resembles one of the most complex hypertexts yet written, namely Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl. In this hypertext (in which passages from Frankenstein are mingled with Jackson's own fiction, quotations from feminist and French philosophers and interpretations of Frankenstein) the cognitive map of the hypertextual structure is in a few places used as a site of signification (especially in a section called "Crazy Quilt"; see figure). Calvino's story collection (as well as the Oulipo poetics in general) should be a useful sample case to people developing programs for computer-generated stories, but it also serves well as one more example of how print fiction can imitate ergodic literature (Calvino's writing procedure, as he describes it in the Epiloque, is a description of pre-digital ergodic text making

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Theme: Individuation - Non-human subjectivities

  • by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff
  • 47 blocks • 6 hours ago

Theme: Companionship

  • by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff
  • 72 blocks • 15 hours ago

Ecology Articles

  • by Bjarke Kure
  • 234 blocks • a day ago

Technologies of The Self

  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 169 blocks • a day ago

Theme: Narrative structures

  • by Amitai Romm
  • 159 blocks • a day ago

All research materials for: Moving in Multiple...

  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 177 blocks • a day ago

Neurodiversity

  • by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff
  • 80 blocks • 2 days ago

Representations of iconic parallelity rather than...

  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 15 blocks • 2 days ago

Effective / Affected : structured and...

  • by Amitai Romm
  • 14 blocks • 2 days ago

Hybrid Organizations

  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 371 blocks • 2 days ago

Circulating Extractions

  • by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff
  • 26 blocks • 3 days ago

Commons/P2P/Open...

  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 108 blocks • 3 days ago

Theme: Trickster

  • by David Hilmer Rex
  • 138 blocks • 4 days ago

Digital Imaginaries / Ontologies

  • by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff
  • 266 blocks • 4 days ago

Podcasts

  • by Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff
  • 43 blocks • 4 days ago

Diagram as Ruin

  • by Amitai Romm
  • 3 blocks • 4 days ago

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