Culture critic Mark Dery has posted his funny, short, sharp take on the Dada-esque poetry that emerges from spammers' attempts to beat filters by throwing random words in the email. From Mark's blog post:
…If Marcel Duchamp had lived to read spam, the man who nonchalantly proclaimed snowshovels and hatracks "found" sculptures would surely have edited a Library of America anthology of spam, the signature genre of our times (not to mention our only truly new literary form, one written increasingly by machines). Printed, as always, on acid-free paper and set in Galliard type, bound in the finest binding cloth, and topped off with a ribbon marker, the better to mark memorable passages, such a volume would be grist for a million dissertation mills:
automat see ammonia try petrifaction in capistrano
be mosaic !
algorithmic or gregory try attack the stool on
checkerberry it cedric
not bullhead or duke and bankruptcy not mint some
reinstate may vice
some conflagrate on cell , alsop on cycad be haphazard
a locomotive may
moss it moose , corrugate be discussion it's chunky be
equatorial on
layup be lawbreaking it intelligible on hemorrhoid a
despond some conley, coronado try. Not, go here…
