Chapter 7

1959
Brion Gysin

• cut newspaper articles into sections ad rearranged them at random to create a book called Minutes to Go
• inspired Burroughs to write about the cut-up method

1961
William S. Burroughs

• the cut and paste method that he describes is used today in "many aspects of new media in computer literary practice as well as game theory
• oulipo was insipired by this technique
• cut-ups can be used by anyone, universal participatory way to utilize art and create new and more interesting game situations.
  

This is an interesting experiment with chance operations, and it can wield some pretty interesting results, or it can be kind of unitelligable. I definitely think this is worth trying, but I'm not super excited about it.