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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction. Reading the Little Database
  9. 1. Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com
  10. Interlude 1. EXE TXT
  11. 2. Distributing Services: Periodical Preservation and Eclipse
  12. Interlude 2. L≠A≠N≠G≠U≠A≠G≠E
  13. 3. Live Vinyl MP3: Echo Chambers among the Little Databases
  14. Interlude 3. Also This: No Title
  15. 4. Dropping the Frame: From Film to Database
  16. Interlude 4. Flash Artifacts
  17. Epilogue. The EPC: On the Persistence of Obsolescent Networks
  18. Acknowledgments.zip
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. Series List Continued (2 of 2)
  22. Author Biography

Contents

  1. Introduction. Reading the Little Database

  2. Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com

    Interlude 1. EXE TXT

  3. Distributing Services: Periodical Preservation and Eclipse

    Interlude 2. L≠A≠N≠G≠U≠A≠G≠E

  4. Live Vinyl MP3: Echo Chambers among the Little Databases

    Interlude 3. Also This: No Title

  5. Dropping the Frame: From Film to Database

    Interlude 4. Flash Artifacts

  6. Epilogue. The EPC: On the Persistence of Obsolescent Networks
  7. Acknowledgments.zip
  8. Notes
  9. Index
  10. Author Biography

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and the UCLA Library.

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.

Copyright 2025 Daniel Scott Snelson. The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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