In order to compile so many words in such a short time, Leach leaned heavily on the Internet. He generated what he calls a “non-linear literary collage” by mining various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites, grabbing whatever words caught his eye.“The talk pages of Wikipedia and the reader comments on io9.com were my absolute favorites,” he said. “These are my people. I shamelessly plagiarized their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- at every opportunity, combining the anonymous messages with recycled content from ‘Marienbad My Love’ and entries from my dream journal. I repeatedly cut and pasted and searched and replaced, transforming the various writings into a completely new and unique literary work.”
My thesis: the era of online text and search engines, the value of indiscriminate writing has dropped to zero. Google killed collage, cutups and "spontaneous bop prosody" forever. If your text hasn't passed through your own Wernicke's area, you're spamming.
― alimosina, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link