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urn:uuid:b55c95a7-ce6e-4cfb-8945-cab4e04001e5 03 15 9789491914089 00 EB E107 10 01 01 To Be, or Not to Be Paraphrased 1 A01 Bardsley Rosenbridge <p><bold>Bardsley Rosenbridge</bold> is a lexicographer and quantum linguistics expert currently based in Oxford. He also works as a parasemantic investigator with the <ext-link xlink:href="http://www.darkmeaningresearchinstitute.org">Dark Meaning Research Institute</ext-link> and is aiming to bring about the linguistic singularity.</p> 01 eng 00 150 03 12 DCF 10 FIC064000 23 poetry 23 Thought Experiments 23 Languages+Translations 23 William Shakespeare 23 experimental writing 01 06 03 00 <p><italic>To Be, or Not to Be: Paraphrased</italic> is an expanding deconstruction of Hamlet’s famous existential question, achieved by putting the line through paraphrasing software 50 times. With each permutation, the quotation grows longer and its meaning is distorted, causing the question to question its own existence by acting as a faulty self-replicator, a nonsensical self-affirmation that destroys itself in the process of becoming. This controlled explosion of a sentence was performed by Bardsley Rosenbridge as part of his work with the <ext-link xlink:href="http://www.darkmeaningresearchinstitute.org">Dark Meaning Research Institute</ext-link>, a group of parasemantic experimenters developing innovative ways to extract hidden meaning from the world around us.</p> Uitgeverij 01 punctum books 04 01 20160617 02 WORLD 06 15 9789491914089 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01