{"id":441,"date":"2020-02-24T06:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/?p=441"},"modified":"2020-02-24T06:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:08:05","slug":"discussion-on-originality-and-authorship-in-regenerated-text-and-combinatory-poetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/2020\/02\/24\/discussion-on-originality-and-authorship-in-regenerated-text-and-combinatory-poetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Originality and Authorship in Regenerated Text and Combinatory Poetics"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Electronic Literature<\/em><\/a> by Scott Rettberg, regenerated and mutated existing texts are discussed by Rettberg (Rettberg 49). He highlights Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland\u2019s Sea and Spar Between<\/em><\/a>. This piece is made up of words exclusively from poems of Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville\u2019s Moby Dick<\/a>.<\/em> Since this piece is created from words that were used in specific texts, it raises the question, is Montfort\u2019s piece completely original. Additionally, are the makers of combinatory poetics considered authors?<\/p>\n

The originality question is one I believe is easy to answer. Due to Sea and Spar Between <\/em>rearranging the words from the previously existing texts into original structures, the piece is original. It is not like the creators of the piece copied long strings of the text together to copy the original texts\u2019 intentions. Thus, the intention of the authors is different than that of the creators of Sea and Spar Between.<\/em><\/p>\n

Authorship relating to the creation of combinatory poetics is an issue we have discussed in class. I think the authorship question comes down to intention, just like for originality. In combinatory poetics, the resulting pieces usually have so many varying permutations that the creator cannot intend for all of them to be a specific way. This is an issue that occurs with bots. For example, Dr. Sample made one of the bots that were shown in class on Friday. One of the issues with the bot was that it produced unintended outputs such as offensive language. This is not an issue an \u201cauthor\u201d runs into. Everything an author intends for a piece to be is what is produced in the final product. Pieces that are authored are static whereas combinatory poetics are dynamic. Therefore, I believe people who develop combinatory poetics should be regarded more so as creators rather than authors because of the unintended results that can be produced in pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg, regenerated and mutated existing texts are discussed by Rettberg (Rettberg 49). He highlights Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland\u2019s Sea and Spar Between. This piece is made up of words exclusively from poems of Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville\u2019s Moby Dick. Since this piece is created from words that were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-c"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}