1 According to http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/theall3.html
2 According to http://www.mindjack.com/feature/mcluhan.html
3 Outside the Anglo-American tradition, the word recombinations and cosmological imagination of Russian futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov manifests another pretext which itself triggered the quasi-computational structuralist poetics of Roman Jakobson
4 W. Rhys Roberts, editor. Longinus on the Sublime. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1899. [ 85 ], Edmund Burke. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990 (1757). [ 15 ], Immanuel Kant. Critique of the Power of Judgment. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. [ 53 ], Friedrich Schiller, On The Sublime, http://members.aol.com/abelard2/schiller.htm
6 This link was first made by English prelate John Tillotson in 1742, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
7 A rationalization that has been progressively extended in non-evangelical Protestant theology to practically all miracles and para- magical acts described in the Bible, most or all of which were subsequently declared allegorical.
8 Brion Gysin. Permutation poems. In: William S. Burroughs. The Third Mind. Viking, New York, 1978. [ 42 ].
12 ibid., p. 38
13 Roman Jakobson. Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances. In Fundamentals of Language, pages 115–133. Mouton, The Hague, Paris, 1971. [ 50 ]
19 Like that of Winckelmann and Lessing in the late 18th century in their respective analyses of the Greek Laocoon sculpture, or the aesthetic philosophy of Walter Pater; see Simon Richter. Laocoon’s Body and the Aesthetics of Pain: Winckelmann, Lessing, Herder, Moritz, Goethe. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1992. [ 84 ]and Harold Bloom, editor. Selected Writings of Walter Pater. Columbia University Press, New York, 1982. [ 10 ]
20 Andreas Alciatus. Emblematum Libellus. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1991 (1542). [ 2 ]
21 A comprehensive survey of their work can be found in Mercedes Blanco. Les rhétoriques de la pointe. Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris, 1992. [ 9 ].
22 Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. De Acuto et Arguto liber unicus. In Wykladi Poetyki, pages 1–20. Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wroclaw, Krakow, 1958. [ 87 ]
25 Eco, ibid., chapter 9
26 Anthony Bonner, editor. Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1993. [ 12 ]
27 Gracián’s book has the according title Agudeza y arte de ingenio. An electronic version of the 1648 book exists at http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12259950118927841194513/
28 From his book Streit der Interpretationen which, so far, has only been published in German, Umberto Eco. Der Streit der Interpretationen. Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz, 1987. [ 30 ]
29 See Miller Puckette’s homepage http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
30 Stockhausen’s analysis of an orchestra piece by Webern laid the groundwork for serial composition: Karlheinz Stockhausen. Weberns Konzert für neun Instrumente op. 24. In Texte zur elektronischen und instrumentalen Musik, pages 24–31. M. DuMont Schauberg, Köln, 1963 (1953). [ 96 ]
32 Most of Flynt’s writings are online under http://www.henryflynt.org
33 Donald E. Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1973-1998. [ 55 ]
34 Donald E. Knuth. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2001. [ 56 ]
35 Donald Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, p. 130
39 Maimon, ibid.
40 Sepher Yetzirah or The Book of Creation, translated by W.W. Wescott (1887), http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm
41 Sephe Yetzirah, ibid.
42 Sepher Yetzirah, ibid.
43 Stephen Hawking discusses this claim in depth in his lecture Does God Play Dice, http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html
47 According to Joscelyn Godwin. Athanasius Kircher. Edition Weber, Berlin, 1994 (1979). [ 37 ], p. 57
48 ibid.
51 Moshe Idel. Ramon Lull and Ecstatic Kabbalah. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 51:170–174, 1988. [ 49 ]
52 Jan Amos Komenský. Orbis sensualium pictus. In Opera Omnia, volume 17, pages 69–271. Academia Praha, Praha, 1970. [ 57 ]
53 The legend of Rabbi Loew has been told many times in books and films, see http://www.pantheon.org/articles/r/rabbi_loeb.html
54 Friedrich Rückert. Grammatik, Poetik und Rhetorik der Perser. Verlagsbuchhandlung Otto Zelle, Antiquariat Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Osnabrück (Gotha), 1966 (1874). [ 86 ]
56 Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius. Publilii Optatiani Porfyrii Carmina. Paravia, Turin, 1973. [ 77 ]
57 Anagrams likewise are permutations of letters; however, since anagram poems never or rarely ever permit all possible letter permutations, there formal-mathematical permutations typically do not correspond to the semanticly permitted permutations.
59 Scaliger, ibid.
61 G.W. Leibniz. Dissertatio de arte combinatoria. In Sämtliche Schriften, volume 1 of VI, pages 165–230. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1989. [ 62 ]
64 Moshe Idel. The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1988. [ 48 ]
65 La Monte Young. Composition 1960 #10 to Bob Morris. In Harald Szeemann and Hans Sohm, editors, happening & fluxus. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, 1970 (1960). [ 102 ]
67 Richard Stallman, The GNU manifesto, http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
68 Emacs is the universal text editor and integrated development environment of the GNU project.
69 Microsoft states on its page http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Articles/LicensingOverview.mspx that the copyleft rule “is what makes the GPL ‘viral,’ because it causes GPL terms to apply to software that incorporates or is derived from code distributed under the GPL, regardless of whether the program’s developer intended that result or even knew of the presence of GPL code in the program.”