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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315225203321

Autore

Rosenbridge Bardsley

Titolo

To be, or not to be : paraphrased / / Bardsley Rosenbridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2016

Den Haag, Netherlands : , : Uitgeverij, , 2016

ISBN

9789491914089

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Soggetti

Poetry

Deconstruction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

To Be, or Not to Be: Paraphrased is an expanding deconstruction of Hamlet’s famous existential question, achieved by putting the line through paraphrasing software 50 times. With each permutation, the quotation grows longer and its meaning is distorted, causing the question to question its own existence by acting as a faulty self-replicator, a nonsensical self-affirmation that destroys itself in the process of becoming. This controlled explosion of a sentence was performed by Bardsley Rosenbridge as part of his work with the Dark Meaning Research Institute, a group of parasemantic experimenters developing innovative ways to extract hidden meaning from the world around us.