Let’s Get Oulipan

The Oulipo introduce arbitrary structural constraint and principle to the composition of texts. They make literature within explicit rules or rule systems.

Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards is a combinatory poem machine that can make one hundred trillion poems (I cite it in the diss to raise some of the questions regarding the literary study of texts with prohibitive scale). Cent mille milliards de poemes on the Web.

An Oulipan (Oulipesque?) blog and community site (from grandtextauto)