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chernobyl kinsman posted:experimental literature. 'ergodic lit' is an a) an unnecessary neologism, because it improves in little to no way upon the extant term 'experimental lit' and b) very poorly chosen, because ergodicity and ergodic theory are already established terms with meanings long predating the word's (very different) application to lit I'm not quite sure how I like the term ergodic lit but plain "experimental" doesn't really pass muster here. I mean literature described as ergodic is experimental but specifically in a way that the actual act of reading requires non-trivial effort. And anyway, the term fills a niche and if it catches on it doesn't really matter if it has different established meanings in different spheres. I agree it's far from perfect though since there seems to be no other common features in "ergodic" lit than funky typography/layout. So maybe it'll never really catch on because it is not really necessary to have a specific term for such books. And I have gone full circle and am currently devouring my own tail.
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