| I propose a progression of partial correspondences which first links the monolithic world-systems of early twentieth century metamathematics to those of modernist poetics, and then leads into the parallel, rhizome spaces and systems of contemporary computer programming and postmodern literature/criticism.;Programming as a narrative effort is taken to provide a set of useful tools for criticism. The discussion stretches across texts from a variety of cultures and genres (e.g. Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce (Finnegans Wake), Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, and several critics and theorists) as well as across the boundaries of academic fields (into computer programming and metamathematics). |
