Reading and Writing Electronic Texts - Week 03

Assignment 01:

For this assignment I have altered some lines of the Love letter generator (original by Christopher Strachey).

I was drawn to the way in which it amplifies affection desire and emotion. When looking at the code structured from lists where words are being chosen randomly. The list made me think of the things that I list myself - which is boringly groceries list. thinking about groceries and desire made me contemplate on Karls Marx's observation regarding the alienation individuals experience from the products they create (and purchase?).

I thought it would be intersting to research that path more, shedding light on the contrast between the romantic and the mundane. Building of on this notion, I aspired to create a poem that conveys the spirit of Pop-Art. (alongside surealisme and dada which felt like an inherent part of randomising).

In order to achieve the contrast between intimacy and alienation I have changed the saluttauons to informal ones. Most of the nouns were changed into names of groceries (names I found their sound pleasing, having an interesting texture or symbolic - though the groceries were limited to items I actually buy).

I tried to make a transition between different kinds of corporate language patterrns in the begining and ending of the letter.

I excpected that the output of all of the above would generate some sort of surreal sarcastic criticism about capitalist society but was happy the result was much more complex, turning the allegedly mundane nouns I have used to vivid, symbolic and somehow erotic metaphors.

As we read in the first assignments, juxtapposed words that are not directly designed by humans just hit in a different way. one of the outcomes of this assignment that I would love to further explore is the emotional relations between objects, as well as addressing cold capitalist terms through an emotional lens.

This is a result I liked:

This was also interesting. how the products treasure the inflation. i feel like it's hard to even imagine constructing such a sentence.