Humanities Homework Help

As described on the MEMORY SLAM home page (created by Nick Montfort), the first three pieces (Love Letters, Stochastic Texts, House of Dust) are re-implemented computational poems, “electronic literature, and digital literary art that was originally developed on batch processing systems” during the 1950s and 60s. House of Trust is a contemporary re-make of one of them. Cent mille millards de poèmes (or “A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems” or “One hundred million million poems”) is technically not originally a work of Electronic Literature, but a piece of writing that was created in book form that represents the type of composition that was happening in certain places in the era before computers became ubiquitous (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Thousand_Bil… (Links to an external site.) for more info,

this book– (select English as the language): https://x42.com/active/queneau.html

For your primary response you can discuss these works as a group, but it is probably best to focus on one or two pieces that interest you most. (2 paragraphs)

In your secondary response you should try to discuss works (or characteristics of works) that are not addressed in your initial post. (1 paragraph)