The Wiki of Babel
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-77385-674-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77385-674-2 (9781773856742)
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Person
Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher, and digital media artist from Calgary, Canada in Treaty 7 territory. In 2014, he founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Co., a small press focused on experimental poetics and visual art. His artworks and publications have been exhibited locally and abroad. Flemmer's other books include Barcode Poetry, Supergiants and TzAR: Pixel Art Anthology.