I have attempted to frame my questions so as to provide as complete an overview as possible of Drucker's career, with particular emphasis on her recent interest in matters of the virtual. This essay explores electronic technology's opportunities for the production, archiving, distribution, and promotion of poetic texts but most importantly, argues that electronic space is a space of writing. For previous excursions into this a written terrain of links and jumps one need only look to the language experiments of certain poets writing in this century. Such poets include Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Language-related experimentalists such as Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, and Susan Howe. These include online hypertext itself, a mass of fits and starts.
Links are at the center of an electronic hypertextual writing and links introduce disjunction.
It is through a poetics of experimental poetries that a framework is sketched and progress is made towards the building of an electronic poetics, one where experiments that changed poetic language may inform the electronic air we breathe. Now they offer a model for understanding electronic web-sites. There is little secondary literature on these assemblings, and this essay seeks to introduce these works as well as explain how assemblings change the way one reads texts. The alternative examines the socio-poetics of texts that appear as part of networks of other texts and among many producers. The specific socio-poetics of these works includes an attempt at democratizing production and distribution.