Textual interventions, deformance, tamperings, and algorithmic criticism share, according to Stephan Ramsay, a common approach and purpose: they alter a text in order to better understand how it works. In one sense, the radical practice of textual intervention in which you change a whole set of words or rewrite a text from the perspective of another character, […]

As I suggested in the first lecture for the week, the big difference between a textual intervention and any other form of rewriting (textual hacking and remaking) we’ve encountered this semester is one of purpose, of intent. Whereas the intent of a collage, a remix, a mashup, a cut-up, or an assemblage is to use […]

“Criticism begins with the recognition of textual power and ends in an attempt to exercise it. This attempt may take the form of an essay, but it may just as easily be textualized as parody or counter-text in the same mode as its critical object. As teachers we should encourage the full range of critical […]