ABSTRACT

Links are the most important new punctuation mark since the invention of the comma, but it has been years since the last in-depth discussions of link poetics. Taking inspiration Raymond Queneau's Exercices De Style, we explore the poetics of contemporary link usage by offering exercises in which the same piece of text is divided and linked in different ways. We present three different exercises—varying the division of a text into lexia, varying links among lexia, and varying links within lexia—while pointing toward potential aesthetic considerations of each variation. Our exercises are intended descriptively, not prescriptively, as a conversational starting point for analysis and as a compendium of useful techniques upon which artists might build.

摘要

链接是自逗号发明以来最重要的新标点符号，但距离上一次对链接诗学的深入讨论已经过去了好几年。以 Raymond Queneau 的Exercices De Style 为灵感，我们通过提供练习以不同方式分割和链接同一段文本，探索当代链接使用的诗学。我们展示了三种不同的练习——将文本划分为 lexia，不同 lexia 之间的链接，以及 lexia 内部的不同链接——同时指出每个变体的潜在美学考虑。我们的练习是描述性的，而不是规定性的，作为分析的对话起点和艺术家可能建立的有用技术的纲要。