{"id":34,"date":"2007-10-31T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/31\/i-feel-better-a\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:16:57","slug":"i-feel-better-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/i-feel-better-a\/","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Better After I Type To You"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Lot 49<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Within the third of the ten files of user search queries AOL mistakenly released<\/a>, there’s a poem of sorts. Between May 7 and May 31 of this year, AOL user 23187425 submitted a series of more than 8,200 queries with no evident intention of finding anything – only a handful of the entries are paired with a search results URL. Rather, the author’s series of queries forms a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s fact or fiction, confession or invention, the search monologue is strangely compelling. It’s a uniquely temporal literary form in that the server time stamps make the passage of time integral to the storytelling. It could be the beginning of a new genre of writing, or simply an aberation. But it does beg further explanation. What circumstances prompted the author to converse thus with AOL’s search engine?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AOL user 23187425’s “stream of consciousness soliloquy” has now been turned into a book<\/a> by Superbunker<\/a> (Superbunker being “a framework for conducting and disseminating cultural research… operating as a cross between a think tank and a decentralized federation of neo-alchemical laboratories..”).<\/p>\n

I want one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Lot 49: Within the third of the ten files of user search queries AOL mistakenly released, there’s a poem of sorts. Between May 7 and May 31 of this year, AOL user 23187425 submitted a series of more than 8,200 queries with no evident intention of finding anything – only a handful of the … Continue reading I Feel Better After I Type To You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,16,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artefactual","category-found","category-private-theatre","category-textual","category-yes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}