The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. 'The Poetics of Information Overload' reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication, data storage, and bureaucratic control. Table of Contents: ContentsPreface: Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of DataIntroduction1. "Reading At It": Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis2. Bob Brown, "Inforg": The "Readies" at the Limits of Modernist Cosmopolitanism3. Human University: Charles Olson and the Embodiment of Information4. "When Information Rubs/Against Information": Poetry and Informatics in the Expanded Field in the 1960s5. Paradise and Informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and the Posthuman Adamic6. Vanguard Total Index: Conceptual Writing, Information Asymmetry, and the Data GlutAfterword. "Proliferating Raw Data": Robert Grenier in the Expanded Field of New Media PoeticsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexBiographical Note: Paul Stephens has taught at Bard, Emory, and Columbia. He edits the journal "Convolution" and lives in New York City.

Contributor Bio:  Stephens, Paul David J. Drum has over twenty years of ministry experience with the Christian Fellowship Ministries; serving as pastor, international evangelist and missionary for five years in SOWETO, South Africa. He is the author of two books. David resides with his wife Hilda in Santa Rosa, CA. For more information visit www.daviddrum.com