Wikipedia is a modern-day miracle. The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit has become a monumental repository of common knowledge, a springboard for research, a source of entertainment, a site of discussion, an archive, a hobby, and a digital representation of information forever in flux.
In The Wiki of Babel, Kyle Flemmer subjects Wikipedia articles to chance operations and poetic constraints, building up an intriguing and bewildering bricolage from fragments of text. Drifting through data, he divines playfulness and humour in the logic of hyperlinks and the surprising juxtapositions they afford. This is poetry of the paratactic leap, a core sample taken from an ever-shifting network of oblique associations.
Fancifully factual, The Wiki of Babel shows how the organization of information and the method of its navigation changes its meaning. A celebration of collaborative expertise and hypertext publications on the internet, this book takes a reverent look back at Oulipian wordplay and a bold step forward in digital poetics.
| ISBN: | 9781773856735 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2026 |
| Author: | Kyle Flemmer |
| Publisher: | University of Calgary Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 122 pages |
| Series: | Brave & Brilliant |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Digital, video and new media arts Poetry by individual poets |
Wikipedia is a modern-day miracle. The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit has become a monumental repository of common knowledge, a springboard for research, a source of entertainment, a site of discussion, an archive, a hobby, and a digital representation of information forever in flux.
In The Wiki of Babel, Kyle Flemmer subjects Wikipedia articles to chance operations and poetic constraints, building up an intriguing and bewildering bricolage from fragments of text. Drifting through data, he divines playfulness and humour in the logic of hyperlinks and the surprising juxtapositions they afford. This is poetry of the paratactic leap, a core sample taken from an ever-shifting network of oblique associations.
Fancifully factual, The Wiki of Babel shows how the organization of information and the method of its navigation changes its meaning. A celebration of collaborative expertise and hypertext publications on the internet, this book takes a reverent look back at Oulipian wordplay and a bold step forward in digital poetics.
The Wiki of Babel features in the following genres: Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Digital, video and new media arts, Poetry by individual poets
The Wiki of Babel is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Wiki of Babel was written by Kyle Flemmer and published by University of Calgary Press
The Wiki of Babel has 122 pages
Yes it is part of Brave & Brilliant series
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