Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Revenge of the Text -- 2. Language as Material -- 3. Anticipating Instability -- 4. Toward a Poetics of Hyperrealism -- 5. Why Appropriation? -- 6. Infallible Processes: What Writing Can Learn from Visual Art -- 7. Retyping On the Road -- 8. Parsing the New Illegibility -- 9. Seeding the Data Cloud -- 10. The Inventory and the Ambient -- 11. Uncreative Writing in the Classroom: A Disorientation -- 12 Provisional Language -- Afterword -- Notes -- Source Credits -- Index