Third Hand Plays: The Comedy of Automation

By Eric Dean Rasmussen, 10 October, 2011
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These works make no pretense to the lyrical — they are not trying to simulate an “I,” and don’t acknowledge the tradition of literary forms unless it be that particularly 20th-century practice, parataxis (the list) as open-ended form...

The comedy of automation is present in all electronic literature works that dynamically generate “literary” content without the work of a writer...