Index

CONTENTS

    Preface: Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of Data   ix

    Introduction   1

1.  “Reading at It”: Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, 
    and the Makings of Americanitis   37

2.  Bob Brown, “Inforg”: The “Readies” at the Limits of
    Modernist Cosmopolitanism   63

3.  Human University: Charles Olson and the Embodiment 
    of Information   87

4.  “When Information Rubs/Against Information”: Poetry
    and Informatics in the Expanded Field in the 1960s   109

5.  Paradise and Informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, 
    and the Posthuman Adamic   133

6.  Vanguard Total Index: Conceptual Writing, Information 
    Asymmetry, and the Data Glut   153

    Afterword.“Proliferating Raw Data”: Robert Grenier
    in the Expanded Field of New Media Poetics   177

    Acknowledgments   189
    Notes   191
    Index   235