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Allison Posts
Posts from Allison Parrish, poet and programmer.
Latest posts
Writing Two of Pentacles
Notes on my latest book of poem things
Language models can only write ransom notes
On large language models and the visibility of the cut
Nothing survives transcription, nothing doesn’t survive transcription
In a sense, the very goal of making a transcription is to make an argument about what cannot be transcribed
When to hold ’em and when to fold ’em: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
The Game Boy Pocket SP
Material paratexts
Keynote for ICCC 2022, in which I invent the word “cistextuality”
Solar powered dawn poems: progress report
My lab notes, plus thoughts on solar powered poetics
Creative writing with computers, noise and mulch
Pulling language apart, grinding it down, and making it unfamiliar
Collaborative creative writing with computation
A hands-on introduction to creative writing with computational tools
Desire (under)lines: Notes toward a queer phenomenology of spell check
Spell check is a “straightening device”
Language models can only write poetry
But only a person can write a poem
Rewordable versus the alphabet fetish
Undoing Alfred Butts’ axiom
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