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Excerpts from “The Defective Record” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909–1939, copyright 1938 by New Directions, reprinted by permission of New Directions and Carcanet Press. Excerpts from Stan VanDerBeek, Poemfield #2, copyright 1971 Estate of Stan VanDerBeek.
A portion of chapter 1 was previously published in a different form in “EXE TXT: Textwarez & Deformance,” in Code und Konzept: Literatur und das Digitale, ed. Hannes Bajohr (Berlin: Frohmann), copyright 2016 by Daniel Scott Snelson. A portion of chapter 3 was previously published in a different form in “Live Vinyl MP3: Mutant Sounds, PennSound, UbuWeb, SpokenWeb,” Amodern 4: The Poetry Series, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, copyright 2015 by Daniel Scott Snelson. A portion of chapter 4 was previously published in “Incredible Machines: Following People Like Us into the Database,” Avant, June 4, 2014.
Banner images in the print edition of chapter 4 from We Edit Life (2002) are published courtesy of Vicki Bennett (People Like Us).
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