A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher's "...(Total Runout)".
This article analyzes Ian Hatcher's online and kinetic poem "...(Total Runout)" (2015) from a point of view of a critique of corporate and governmental black boxing, at the level of its code, text, visual output, sound, and live performance. The multimodal poem is part of the Drone Pilot suite, and...
| Publicado en: | Poetics Today Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 503 - 538 |
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Duke University Press
Dec2020
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