{"id":1792,"date":"2013-06-20T05:43:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2013-07-07T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T10:01:27","slug":"the-deletionist-erasure-poetry-from-any-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/06\/20\/the-deletionist-erasure-poetry-from-any-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deletionist: Erasure Poetry from any Web Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/delitionist_logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1800\" alt=\"delitionist_logo[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/delitionist_logo1.png\" width=\"213\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/delitionist_logo1.png 213w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/delitionist_logo1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Announcing <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/thedeletionist.com\/\">The Deletionist<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">, a project by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaranthborsuk.com\/\">Amaranth Borsuk<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/\">Nick Montfort<\/a> and myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a bookmarklet (added to the bookmark bar in one\u2019s 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/epc.buffalo.edu\/e-poetry\/2013\/\">E-Poetry festival<\/a> in London, at Kingston University.\u00a0<a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/thedeletionist.com\/\">http:\/\/thedeletionist.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For every page, The Deletionist weighs 30 different principles of erasure to see which is most appropriate for a given text.<\/p>\n<p>Please post any interesting examples that you may find by tweeting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDeletionist\">@thedeletionist<\/a>\u00a0or posting here!<\/p>\n<h1>Examples<\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestudies.org\/0101\/juul-gts\/\">Games Telling stories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/www.gamestudies.org-0101-juul-gts-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1793 alignnone\" alt=\"www.gamestudies.org-0101-juul-gts-\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/www.gamestudies.org-0101-juul-gts--150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the alliteration rule &#8211; this guy&#8217;s clearly obsessed with the word &#8220;narrative&#8221;!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/\">Waxy.org<\/a>\u00a0 (example by waxy.org)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deletionist-waxy-20130618-2129091.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1796 alignnone\" alt=\"deletionist-waxy-20130618-212909[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deletionist-waxy-20130618-2129091-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The &#8220;it&#8217;s not you it&#8217;s me&#8221;-rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Sontag: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldbacon.com\/writing\/sontag-againstinterpretation.html\">Against Interpretation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/www.coldbacon.com-writing-sontag-againstinterpretation.html.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1797 alignnone\" alt=\"www.coldbacon.com-writing-sontag-againstinterpretation.html\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/www.coldbacon.com-writing-sontag-againstinterpretation.html-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Steinian Continuous Present\u00a0<\/em>rule.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/04\/19\/understanding-bioshock-infinites-ending-ending-explanation\/\">Bioshock Infinite ending spoiler<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Understanding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1798 alignnone\" alt=\"Understanding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Understanding-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Readable, without spoiling much! The &#8220;I am Interesting&#8221; rule<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing The Deletionist, a project by\u00a0Amaranth Borsuk,\u00a0Nick Montfort and myself. This is a bookmarklet (added to the bookmark bar in one\u2019s 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/06\/20\/the-deletionist-erasure-poetry-from-any-web-page\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Deletionist: Erasure Poetry from any Web Page&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}