Sandy Baldwin is Associate Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is a teacher, critic, theorist, and artist working with electronic literature and new media. He has edited five volumes of essays on electronic literature. He regularly performs and stages interventions in virtual environments and computer games.

Departing from all prior models of academic writing, Sandy Baldwin's The Internet Unconscious is the first book of digital criticism to meet its object on its own terrain. Written on the border of fiction, Baldwin's book enacts the phantasmagoric electronic text of scrambled authorship and algorithmic flirtation whose claim to the label literature is only the repetitive intonation of the impossible status of the literary in the digital age. Underpinned by an encyclopedic purview that stretches across philosophy, engineering, poetics, and fanboy familiarity with the forms and contents of digital production, this book is both unassailably expert and unabashedly experimental. I wish I had written it, though if Baldwin's premises about the ambiguity of electronic authorship are to be taken seriously, perhaps I did.

• Introduction Foreword by Francisco J. RicardoI As if I wrote the Internet. The Great Beyond Weapon body Crust II For example oooo ooooooooo OMG LOL Leet or 1337 III Survivable Communication Ping Poetics Traceroute Urgent interruption Somatolysis IVLovers of Literature Handshakes Binding the Subject Chmod -777 Read/Write/Execute V Consumed by the net The Crowd of Electronic WritersDebts and Obligations Axiomatics The Literary CommunityVI I read my spam PLEASE REPLY MY BELOVED CAN SPAM The End of SpamEnd-to-End VIILogging in and getting offCAPTCHA Taking the Test The difference thought makesVIII Plaintext March 11, 1968. Character and Glyph Extreme Rendition Plaintext Performance One Time Pad Friend Request IX Bodies never touch Pervy Intimate Avatars Passion of the Avatar, Avatar of Passion Bibliography NotesIndex

Sandy Baldwin is Associate Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is a teacher, critic, theorist, and artist working with electronic literature and new media. He has edited five volumes of essays on electronic literature. He regularly performs and stages interventions in virtual environments and computer games.

Departing from all prior models of academic writing, Sandy Baldwin's The Internet Unconscious is the first book of digital criticism to meet its object on its own terrain. Written on the border of fiction, Baldwin's book enacts the phantasmagoric electronic text of scrambled authorship and algorithmic flirtation whose claim to the label literature is only the repetitive intonation of the impossible status of the literary in the digital age. Underpinned by an encyclopedic purview that stretches across philosophy, engineering, poetics, and fanboy familiarity with the forms and contents of digital production, this book is both unassailably expert and unabashedly experimental. I wish I had written it, though if Baldwin's premises about the ambiguity of electronic authorship are to be taken seriously, perhaps I did.

• Introduction Foreword by Francisco J. RicardoI As if I wrote the Internet. The Great Beyond Weapon body Crust II For example oooo ooooooooo OMG LOL Leet or 1337 III Survivable Communication Ping Poetics Traceroute Urgent interruption Somatolysis IVLovers of Literature Handshakes Binding the Subject Chmod -777 Read/Write/Execute V Consumed by the net The Crowd of Electronic WritersDebts and Obligations Axiomatics The Literary CommunityVI I read my spam PLEASE REPLY MY BELOVED CAN SPAM The End of SpamEnd-to-End VIILogging in and getting offCAPTCHA Taking the Test The difference thought makesVIII Plaintext March 11, 1968. Character and Glyph Extreme Rendition Plaintext Performance One Time Pad Friend Request IX Bodies never touch Pervy Intimate Avatars Passion of the Avatar, Avatar of Passion Bibliography NotesIndex

Sandy Baldwin is Associate Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is a teacher, critic, theorist, and artist working with electronic literature and new media. He has edited five volumes of essays on electronic literature. He regularly performs and stages interventions in virtual environments and computer games.

Departing from all prior models of academic writing, Sandy Baldwin's The Internet Unconscious is the first book of digital criticism to meet its object on its own terrain. Written on the border of fiction, Baldwin's book enacts the phantasmagoric electronic text of scrambled authorship and algorithmic flirtation whose claim to the label literature is only the repetitive intonation of the impossible status of the literary in the digital age. Underpinned by an encyclopedic purview that stretches across philosophy, engineering, poetics, and fanboy familiarity with the forms and contents of digital production, this book is both unassailably expert and unabashedly experimental. I wish I had written it, though if Baldwin's premises about the ambiguity of electronic authorship are to be taken seriously, perhaps I did.

• Introduction Foreword by Francisco J. RicardoI As if I wrote the Internet. The Great Beyond Weapon body Crust II For example oooo ooooooooo OMG LOL Leet or 1337 III Survivable Communication Ping Poetics Traceroute Urgent interruption Somatolysis IVLovers of Literature Handshakes Binding the Subject Chmod -777 Read/Write/Execute V Consumed by the net The Crowd of Electronic WritersDebts and Obligations Axiomatics The Literary CommunityVI I read my spam PLEASE REPLY MY BELOVED CAN SPAM The End of SpamEnd-to-End VIILogging in and getting offCAPTCHA Taking the Test The difference thought makesVIII Plaintext March 11, 1968. Character and Glyph Extreme Rendition Plaintext Performance One Time Pad Friend Request IX Bodies never touch Pervy Intimate Avatars Passion of the Avatar, Avatar of Passion Bibliography NotesIndex