The Deletionist: Erasure Poetry from any Web Page

Announcing The Deletionist, a project by Amaranth Borsuk, Nick Montfort and myself.

This is a bookmarklet (added to the bookmark bar in one’s browser) that automatically creates erasure poetry from any page on the World Wide Web, revealing an alternate mesh of texts called the Worl. Amaranth and Nick presented The Deletionist for the first time this week at the E-Poetry festival in London, at Kingston University. http://thedeletionist.com/

For every page, The Deletionist weighs 30 different principles of erasure to see which is most appropriate for a given text.

Please post any interesting examples that you may find by tweeting @thedeletionist or posting here!

Examples

Games Telling stories

This is the alliteration rule – this guys’ clearly obsessed with the word “narrative”!

Waxy.org  (example by waxy.org)

The “it’s not you it’s me”-rule.

Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation

The Steinian Continuous Present rule.

Bioshock Infinite ending spoiler

Readable, without spoiling much! The “I am Interesting” rule.