Of the Subcontract
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Of the Subcontract

Or Principles of Poetic Right

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Of the Subcontract

Or Principles of Poetic Right

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About This Book

Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living. Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.

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Publisher
Coach House Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9781770564909
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. FOREWORD: Earn Money Just by Writing Your Mind
  6. ARTIFICIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  7. BENEFITS OF ON DEMAND, ELASTIC STAFFING
  8. DATA CLEANSING, NORMALIZATION, AND DEDUPLICATION
  9. BELLOWS, REEDS, LEVERS; A THROAT, A NASAL CAVITY, A MOUTH OF INDIA RUBBER
  10. AFTERWORD: Title of Essay in Plain Type
  11. ABOUT THE AUTHORS