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The Exquisite Digital Corpse

Cadavre Exquis (André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Yves Tanguy)

Year: 1925. Place: Rue de Château no. 54, Paris, France. Characters: André Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. Plot: A group of surrealists invents a collaborative storytelling technique called cadavre exquis (the Exquisite Corpse) named…

Twitter and The Remediation of Short Texts

Aphorisms, Haiku’s, SMS, Twitter

“What are you doing?” This basic question of Twitter can easily be answered in the limited 140 characters a ‘tweet offers. They key characteristic of the famous microblogging site, it’s short message length, actually isn’t really new. The history of the use of short texts goes way back; an early example of it can