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

5 Franz Dornseiff. Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie. Teubner, Leipzig, Berlin, 1925. [ 29 ].

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 ].

9 William  S. Burroughs. Electronic Revolution. Expanded Media Edition, Bonn, 1982. [ 19 ].

10 Klaus Maeck and Walter Hartmann, editors. Decoder Handbuch. Trikont, Duisburg, 1984. [ 64 ]

11 James  George Frazer. The Golden Bough. Macmillan, London, 1950. [ 35 ], p. 12

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 ]

14 Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989 (1976). [ 28 ]

15 William  S. Burroughs. Electronic Revolution. Expanded Media Edition, Bonn, 1982. [ 19 ], p.59

16 Jonathan Barnes, editor. Early Greek Philosophy. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 2002. [ 7 ]

17 Boethius. De Musica. In Opera omnia. Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1882. [ 11 ]

18 Franchino Gaffurio. De harmonia musicorum. Forni, Bologna, 1972 (1518). [ 36 ]

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 ]

23 Umberto Eco. The Island of the Day Before. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1996. [ 33 ]

24 See Mercedes Blanco. Les rhétoriques de la pointe. Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris, 1992. [ 9 ]

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 ]

31 Douglas  R. Hofstadter. Gödel, Escher, Bach. Basic Books, New York, 1979. [ 46 ]

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

36 Steven Levy. Hackers. Project Gutenberg, Champaign, IL, 1986 (1984). [ 63 ]

37 Hans  Otto Peitgen. The Beauty of Fractals. Springer, Heidelberg, New York, 1986. [ 73 ]

38 Solomon Maimon. An Autobiography. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 2001 (1792). [ 65 ]

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

44 Thomas Pynchon. Gravity’s Rainbow. Vintage, London, 1995 (1973). [ 79 ], p. 717

45 Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. Perennial Classics, New York, 1999 (1967). [ 80 ]

46 Umberto Eco. Foucault’s Pendulum. Ballantine Books, 1990. [ 31 ]

47 According to Joscelyn Godwin. Athanasius Kircher. Edition Weber, Berlin, 1994 (1979). [ 37 ], p. 57

48 ibid.

49 Giovanni Pico  della Mirandola. Oration on the Dignity of Man. MacMillan, 1985 (1486). [ 76 ]

50 According to Godwin [ 37 ], p. 63

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 ]

55 Frances Yates. The Art of Memory. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1965. [ 101 ]

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.

58 Julius  Caesar Scaliger. Poetices libri septem. Frommann, Stuttgart, 1964 (1561). [ 89 ]

59 Scaliger, ibid.

60 Johann  Heinrich Alsted. Encyclopaedia. Holzboog, Stuttgart (Herborn), 1989 (1630). [ 4 ]

61 G.W. Leibniz. Dissertatio de arte combinatoria. In Sämtliche Schriften, volume  1 of VI, pages 165–230. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1989. [ 62 ]

62 Quirinus Kuhlmann. Himmlische Libes-küsse. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1971 (1671). [ 60 ]

63 Aleister Crowley. The Book of Lies. Red Wheel Weiser, 1970 (1913). [ 26 ]

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 ]

66 William  S. Burroughs. Electronic Revolution. Expanded Media Edition, Bonn, 1982. [ 19 ]

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.”

70 Johann  Valentin Andreae. Fama Fraternitatis, Confessio Fraternitatis, Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994 (1973). [ 6 ]

71 Johann  Valentin Andreae. Turris Babel. Zetzner, Strasbourg, 1619. [ 5 ]