Notes for Ambient Beings: On Gauss PDF, Troll Thread, and Artificial Textual Ecologies
[1] Eddie Hopely, Snug,
Troll Thread, 2013, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/60910811549/ eddie-hopely-snug-troll-thread-2013-purchase.
[2] Alejandro Ventura, Speculative 2014 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Troll Thread, PDF, 2013, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/67387114918/speculative-2014-whitney-biennial-exhibition.
[3] Tom Comitta, The Nature Book, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2023; Tom Comitta, Airport Novella, Troll Thread, 2017, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/167457044854/tom-comitta-airport- novella-troll-thread-2017.
[4] Astrid Lorange, Pussy pussy pussy what what or Au lait day Au lait day, Gauss PDF, 2010, PDF, https:// www.gauss-pdf.com/post/1466856345/gpdf002-astrid-lorange-pussy-pussy-pussy-what.
[5] Sean Tatol, Long S, Gauss PDF, 2020, PDF, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/637576467645136896/gpdf294gpdfe052-sean-tatol-long-s.
[6] Trisha Low, Confessions [of a variety.], Gauss PDF, 2010, PDF, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/ 3449342095/gpdf022-trisha-low-confessions-of-a-variety.
[7] J. Gordon Faylor, “Gauss PDF Interview with J. Gordon Faylor,” interview by Tan Lin, Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation, May 4, 2014, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2014/05/gauss-pdf-interview-with-j-gordon-faylor.
[8] Chris Sylvester, Lawn Book, Troll Thread, 2017, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/ 166465644354/chris-sylvester-lawn-book-troll-thread-2017.
[9] Holly Melgard, Chris Sylvester, and Joey Yearous-Algozin, “Troll Thread Interview,” interview by Tan Lin,Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation, May 4, 2014, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2014/05/troll-thread-interview
[10] Ibid.
[11] Chris Sylvester, Lawn Book, Troll Thread, 2017, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/ 166465644354/chris-sylvester-lawn-book-troll-thread-2017, 3-4.
[12] Ibid, 302.
[13] Holly Melgard, Fetal Position, New York: Roof Books, 2021, 37.
[14] Ibid, 39.
[15] Peli Grietzer, “A Theory of Vibe,” Glass Bead, Site 1, 2017, https://www.glass-bead.org/article/a- theory-of-vibe/?lang=enview.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Brian Ng, Fragment: after John Ashbery, Gauss PDF, 2020, PDF, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/ 625538099239321600/gpdf292-brian-ng-fragment-after-john-ashbery.
[19] Peli Grietzer, “Patterns of the Lifeworld,” Aeon, April 17, 2023, https://aeon.co/essays/why-poetry-is- a-variety-of-mathematical-experience.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Nadia John, Shews a very rare gal, i think, Gauss PDF, 2015a, Google Doc, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/ post/113793244845/gpdf164-nadia-john-she-ws-a-very-rare-gal-i, 1.
[23] Nadia John,The din of soot & glint of ver-de-gris, Gauss PDF, 2020. PDF. https://www.gauss-pdf.com/ post/634311829894709248/gpdf293gpdfe051-nadia-john-the-din-of-soot, 10; Ibid, 12.
[24] Ibid, 15.
[25] Ibid, 14.
[26] John, She ws a very rare gal, i think; Nadia John, don’t you love my gardening styles, Gauss PDF: 2015b, Google Doc, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/129576041615/gpdf184gpdfe018-nadia-john-dont-you-love-my.
[27] Ted Dodson, “Gauss PDF (2010–2022), ed. by J. Gordon Faylor,”BOMB, September 1, 2022, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gauss-pdf-2010-2022-ed-by-j-gordon-faylor/
[28] Tan Lin, Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004, The Joy of Cooking: [Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape], Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2010, 16.
[29] Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, “The Coming Age of Calm Technology,” CalmTechnology.com, https://calmtech.com/papers/coming-age-calm-technology.html.
[30] Ibid.
[31] Ibid, 202.
[32] Francisco J. Varelo, “Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves,” In Organisms and the Origins of Self, edited by Alfred I. Tauber, 79-107, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, 80.
[33] John Pætsch, Ctasy, —of shapes off shore, Philadelphia: Hiding Press, 2020.
[34] Ibid
[35] Ibid.
[36] J. Gordon Faylor, Registration Caspar, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016, 5.
[37] Ibid, 15.
[38] Ibid, 14.
[39] Harriet Staff, “Registration Caspar, by a Bay Area Beckett, Reviewed at Entropy,” Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation, October 16, 2016, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2016/10/registration- caspar-by-a-bay-area-beckett-reviewed-at-entropy.
[40] Yuk Hui, “Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics,” e-flux, Issue #86, 2017, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/161887/cosmotechnics-as-cosmopolitics/.
[2] Alejandro Ventura, Speculative 2014 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Troll Thread, PDF, 2013, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/67387114918/speculative-2014-whitney-biennial-exhibition.
[3] Tom Comitta, The Nature Book, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2023; Tom Comitta, Airport Novella, Troll Thread, 2017, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/167457044854/tom-comitta-airport- novella-troll-thread-2017.
[4] Astrid Lorange, Pussy pussy pussy what what or Au lait day Au lait day, Gauss PDF, 2010, PDF, https:// www.gauss-pdf.com/post/1466856345/gpdf002-astrid-lorange-pussy-pussy-pussy-what.
[5] Sean Tatol, Long S, Gauss PDF, 2020, PDF, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/637576467645136896/gpdf294gpdfe052-sean-tatol-long-s.
[6] Trisha Low, Confessions [of a variety.], Gauss PDF, 2010, PDF, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/ 3449342095/gpdf022-trisha-low-confessions-of-a-variety.
[7] J. Gordon Faylor, “Gauss PDF Interview with J. Gordon Faylor,” interview by Tan Lin, Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation, May 4, 2014, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2014/05/gauss-pdf-interview-with-j-gordon-faylor.
[8] Chris Sylvester, Lawn Book, Troll Thread, 2017, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/ 166465644354/chris-sylvester-lawn-book-troll-thread-2017.
[9] Holly Melgard, Chris Sylvester, and Joey Yearous-Algozin, “Troll Thread Interview,” interview by Tan Lin,Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation, May 4, 2014, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2014/05/troll-thread-interview
[10] Ibid.
[11] Chris Sylvester, Lawn Book, Troll Thread, 2017, PDF, https://trollthread.tumblr.com/post/ 166465644354/chris-sylvester-lawn-book-troll-thread-2017, 3-4.
[12] Ibid, 302.
[13] Holly Melgard, Fetal Position, New York: Roof Books, 2021, 37.
[14] Ibid, 39.
[15] Peli Grietzer, “A Theory of Vibe,” Glass Bead, Site 1, 2017, https://www.glass-bead.org/article/a- theory-of-vibe/?lang=enview.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Brian Ng, Fragment: after John Ashbery, Gauss PDF, 2020, PDF, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/ 625538099239321600/gpdf292-brian-ng-fragment-after-john-ashbery.
[19] Peli Grietzer, “Patterns of the Lifeworld,” Aeon, April 17, 2023, https://aeon.co/essays/why-poetry-is- a-variety-of-mathematical-experience.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Nadia John, Shews a very rare gal, i think, Gauss PDF, 2015a, Google Doc, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/ post/113793244845/gpdf164-nadia-john-she-ws-a-very-rare-gal-i, 1.
[23] Nadia John,The din of soot & glint of ver-de-gris, Gauss PDF, 2020. PDF. https://www.gauss-pdf.com/ post/634311829894709248/gpdf293gpdfe051-nadia-john-the-din-of-soot, 10; Ibid, 12.
[24] Ibid, 15.
[25] Ibid, 14.
[26] John, She ws a very rare gal, i think; Nadia John, don’t you love my gardening styles, Gauss PDF: 2015b, Google Doc, https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/129576041615/gpdf184gpdfe018-nadia-john-dont-you-love-my.
[27] Ted Dodson, “Gauss PDF (2010–2022), ed. by J. Gordon Faylor,”BOMB, September 1, 2022, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gauss-pdf-2010-2022-ed-by-j-gordon-faylor/
[28] Tan Lin, Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004, The Joy of Cooking: [Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape], Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2010, 16.
[29] Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, “The Coming Age of Calm Technology,” CalmTechnology.com, https://calmtech.com/papers/coming-age-calm-technology.html.
[30] Ibid.
[31] Ibid, 202.
[32] Francisco J. Varelo, “Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves,” In Organisms and the Origins of Self, edited by Alfred I. Tauber, 79-107, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, 80.
[33] John Pætsch, Ctasy, —of shapes off shore, Philadelphia: Hiding Press, 2020.
[34] Ibid
[35] Ibid.
[36] J. Gordon Faylor, Registration Caspar, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016, 5.
[37] Ibid, 15.
[38] Ibid, 14.
[39] Harriet Staff, “Registration Caspar, by a Bay Area Beckett, Reviewed at Entropy,” Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation, October 16, 2016, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2016/10/registration- caspar-by-a-bay-area-beckett-reviewed-at-entropy.
[40] Yuk Hui, “Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics,” e-flux, Issue #86, 2017, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/161887/cosmotechnics-as-cosmopolitics/.
