In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art,
nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war. With
their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists
sought to "signify no thing." Today, data also operates
autonomously. However, rather than dismantling tradition, data
organizes, selects, combines, quantifies, and simplifies the
complexity of actuality. Like Dada, data also signifies nothing.
While Dadaists protest with purpose, data proceeds without
intention. The individual in the early twentieth century agonizes
over the alienation from daily life and the fear of being converted
into a cog in a machine. Today, however, the individual in
twenty-first-century supermodernity merges, not with large
industrial machinery, but with the processual and procedural logic
of programming with innocuous ease. Both exclude human agency from
self-narration but to differing degrees of abstraction. Examining
the work of B.R. Yeager, Samuel Beckett, Jeff Noon, Kenji Siratori,
Mike Bonsall, Allison Parrish, and narratives written by artificial
intelligence, Wenaus considers the threshold of sensible narration
and the effects that the shift from a culture of language to a
culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers
a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests,
promises a future of open, hyper-contingent, unprescribed
alternatives for self-narration.
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