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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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