7CV: A Critical Reader to Accompany Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies

Co-edited with Danny Snelson
With Chris Cuellar and Event Editors Eddie Hopely and Sueyeun Juliette Lee
2010

Released in Conjunction with Edit: Controlling Networked Publishing, an event series at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania. With one-paragraph excerpts from Charles Bernstein, Friedrich Kittler, the American Management Association, and others. For a full PDF of the Critical Reader, visit: http://aphasic-letters.com/edit/publications.html.

Contents include:

A RANGE OF PUBLISHING PRACTICES, WHICH IN TURN PROPOSE READING PRACTICES.

TEXTUAL PROSTHESES

BABBAGE’S ANALYTICAL ENGINE CAN DO WHATEVER WE KNOW HOW TO ORDER IT TO PERFORM.

THESE INCLUDE “CIRCUITS AND NETWORKS,” “FEEDBACK AND PURPOSIVE ACTIVITY,” “SIGNALS AND MESSAGES,” “INFORMATION AND PROBABILITY,” “COMMUNICATION.”

and

LAUREN BACALL IN THE BIG SLEEP
(1946, USA, DIR. HOWARD HAWKS)