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2title: Autocento of the breakfast table 2title: Autocento of the breakfast table
3subtitle: abstract 3subtitle: _abstract_
4genre: prose 4genre: prose
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14## Brief Description 14Technology has utterly changed the ways in which we interact with ourselves, society, and nature.
15Ways of thinking and collaborating thought all-but-impossible less than a generation ago have become commonplace, even necessary, in the Internet age.
16_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an attempt to leverage the power of the Internet to capture the [author][]’s inspiration, composition, and revision processes all at one time, through a linked hypertext.
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16_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. 18As a website, _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is at first enigmatic.
17I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. 19The reader is unable to merely consume the text; they must actively interact with it---by clicking links, in this case---in order to create a meaning.
18To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform. 20In doing so, the reader empathetically engages with the author’s published self, journeying with the author or around the author to create a text that is utterly unique to the moment it’s being read.
21In a sense, the reader is not merely a reader, but a user of the text in front of them: they can get as much or as little from it as they are willing.
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20## Things to notice 23The Internet is the perfect medium for a text like _Autocento of the breakfast table_.
24Scott Rosenberg, in his essay “[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?][]” on Medium, notes that “originally, the exact purpose of links was” to make “conceptual links” and connect “disparate thoughts” across a democratic space---the Web.
25The Web, envisioned this way, removes the arbitrary structuring of page order, publishing imprints, and temporality that print technology is bounded by.
26With a Web-like platform, ideas can live of themselves, by themselves, and for themselves: instead of ordering ideas by some value system, we can organically link them together by similarities.
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22Take a look around the site. 28The ideas that _Autocento of the breakfast table_ works with and links together are the [_hapax legomenon_][], or “something said only once,” and the _cento_, or “patchwork garment.”
23See how it's navigable: there are links within each article to other articles and to the wider web, mapping common images, themes, or inspirations; 29These two ideas are held in a kind of balance when expanded to the scale of a poem: while every word has necessarily been said before, every thought unoriginal, the author can hope to arrange these unoriginal thoughts into their own shapes.
24 there's also navigation links at the bottom of each page: 30To put it another way, we’re all making pots out of the same clay, but each one is irrevocably ours.
31The cento of _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is the project itself, in its entirety; I am a composite of everything I’ve done.
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26- The **φ** shows you the backlinks to each page. 33_Case Duckworth_
27- The **◊** takes you back to the cover of the project, to start over. 34_Flagstaff, 2015_
28- The **ξ** takes you to a random article in the project.
29- Some pages also have _previous_ and _next_ links. These take you to other articles in their original project-order. It's another way to navigate the page.
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31Check out my [process narrative][] for the technical details of putting this site together, or see my [about page][] for an artist's statement. 36[author]: about_author.html
32 37[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?]:
33[process narrative]: process.html 38[_hapax legomenon_]: hapax.html
34[about page]: about.html
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2title: How it happened 2title: How it happened
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