Departing from all prior models of academic writing, Sandy Baldwin's The Internet Unconscious is the first book of digital criticism to meet its object on its own terrain. Written on the border of fiction, Baldwin's book enacts the phantasmagoric electronic text of scrambled authorship and algorithmic flirtation whose claim to the label literature is only the repetitive intonation of the impossible status of the literary in the digital age. Underpinned by an encyclopedic purview that stretches across philosophy, engineering, poetics, and fanboy familiarity with the forms and contents of digital production, this book is both unassailably expert and unabashedly experimental. I wish I had written it, though if Baldwin's premises about the ambiguity of electronic authorship are to be taken seriously, perhaps I did. * Aden Evens, Associate Professor of English, Dartmouth College, USA * Sandy Baldwin's compelling book implicitly asks you to read it aloud to capture its rhythm. This poetic and probing analysis rewrites how the computer constantly writes, while at once performing a phenomenological account of how we are constantly tuning into the various demands--and permissions--of the machine and the network. We operate in the imperatives of this milieu of media. * Jussi Parikka, Professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK, and author of Digital Contagions *
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