Tools for exploring Oulipo constraints, aleatoric methods, and language model authorship — drawn from SFPC and MIT OCW curricula.
Pick an Oulipo writing constraint — lipogram (no letter E), N+7 (replace nouns with the 7th word after them in a dictionary), snowball — and get a prompt to write under it, with examples from Oulipo authors.
Pick a chance-based text generation rule — random word insertion, dice-roll decisions, newspaper cut-up — and produce a piece of constrained writing, exploring how aleatory methods challenge authorial control.
Read excerpts and decide: human-written, human-assisted, or AI-generated? Then explore what the distinction actually means — for authorship, creativity, intent, and the history of experimental writing that preceded AI.
Describe a text generation pattern — every third word is a color, each sentence begins where the last one ended — and the app helps you apply it to produce a short experimental piece.
Pick a divinatory system and trace how its language creates meaning — the semantic space it constructs, the interpretive tradition that develops around it, and the role of the reader in completing the meaning.
