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Danny Snelson @dss_edit
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U of MN Press@UMinnPress
13 Nov 2025
🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson / @dss_edit, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdb…
​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson

ALT ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett

ALT ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin

ALT ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra

ALT ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra

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UCLA Game Lab@uclagames
3 Jul 2025
📘 New from UCLA Game Lab affiliated faculty 💾 The Little Database by Daniel Snelson is out now from University of Minnesota Press! A poetic, playful look at how “little” digital archives reshape media and memory in the age of big data. Print edition available now! 📚📖
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Tagvverk@tagvvrk
13 Aug 2024
Pleased to present an excerpt from BRICKED by Danny Snelson @dss_edit tagvverk.info/2024/08/13/dan…

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                              BRICKED is an ongoing XR writing environment bearing witness to memory loss. In the summer o…

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Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center@BBLitArts
14 Oct 2023
Catch Myriam Gurba (@lesbrains), Danny Snelson (@dss_edit), and Christopher Soto (@csoto_pdf) presenting new work commissioned by Beyond Baroque this Saturday at 7 PM. Witness the debut of exciting and thought-provoking pieces from these acclaimed authors. eventbrite.com/e/the-new-ser…
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Danny Snelson retweeted
Contemporaries @ Post45@AtPost45
17 Jul 2023
🎧 NEW 🎧 Pod45 episode 13: LITTLE MAGAZINES @franciscondine in discussion with Little Magazines cluster ed @nicksturm, and contributors @dss_edit and @projectiveind Out now on all podcast platforms! linktr.ee/pod45

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💞🔮🧬 LEECH LAUCH 🧬🔮💞 Tomorrow at 5:30pm PST // 8:30pm EST — thrilled to host our first Text/Tech XR event (or IRL @ UCLA) to celebrate the new book by eyeball-alien @artificialbl1ss w/the brilliant floating-bird @saintsoftness — join live at hubs.mozilla.com/KwYBLAR/ucl…
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🦒 An Elegy for *Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K”* (1984-1989) 🦒—honored to be included in the @Post_45 collection on “Little Magazines” ed. @nicksturm — such great company among the contributions &especially moved to share captures toward parenthetical lifespans, (2004-2022) 🏠📖🏠
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Link here: post45.org/2023/06/an-elegy-…
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Contemporaries @ Post45@AtPost45
5 Jun 2023
🚨🚨 New @atpost45 cluster alert 🚨🚨 Out tomorrow: Little Magazines Edited by @nicksturm, and featuring: @dss_edit @projectiveind @MarloStarr Rona Cran Shannon Tharp Iris Cushing Edric Mesmer Sophie Seita David Grundy Joseph Fritsch Rosa Campbell Laetitia Zecchini
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artificial_bliss@artificialbl1ss
31 May 2023
💞🔮🧬 LEECH LAUNCH 🧬🔮💞 June 8th at 5:30pm PST w/ @saintsoftness & @dss_edit Readings, excursions, digressions, constructions, Q&A, &other para-sites...
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UCLA ENGLISH@UCLAenglish
16 Dec 2022
"My sense of ChatGPT is that it’s actually a really exciting opportunity to reconsider what it is that we do when we write things like essays.” Professor @dss_edit spoke with @dotLA on the pros and cons using #ChatGPT for academic writing. ⬇️⬇️
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@dotLA
15 Dec 2022
“My dog ate my homework” is no longer needed — ChatGPT can do your homework for you. dot.la/students-using-ai-wri…
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Completing a belated fetch quest, I’m eager to share “Contingent Reading.” Walking a AAA game, an indie TTRPG, &an XR platform into the search bar—part of "Inscriptive Studies" ed. w/a phenomenal intro by @ritaraley & @pbenzon [Link: bit.ly/3VIxVyk / DM for PDF]
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dot.LA
@dotLA
15 Dec 2022
“My dog ate my homework” is no longer needed — ChatGPT can do your homework for you. dot.la/students-using-ai-wri…
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Danny Snelson retweeted
Hysterically Real@HystericallyR
19 Sep 2022
Are you Ready? Didn’t expect Giant Wicked Elden Poem First off, Nuance And then be Wary Of much Sorcery High Spot, Secret Passage, Rolling Madness, Therefore Seek Reflection Praise Snelson Praise the Poetic Sort! —Eddo Stern Xxxx xxx Xxx hystericallyreal.com
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Tnx to @HidingPress I remembered that I have a Twitter account! &Yes, a fond farewell to Edit Publications (2010-2020): a small sampling of representative works available here: dss-edit.com/pub/
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I've been writing on disappearing bleeds, cutting edges, lost memories &mourning stationery over the past few months. Here's "Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page," now up in PDF at SYNC2, w/tnx to the brilliant editor/publisher @abue_io : : sync.abue.io/issues/190419ds…
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@monoskop@post.lurk.org@monoskop
5 Sep 2018
Very excited to announce that the premiere edition of Exhibition Library is opening today in Seoul. Thank you so much to all our contributors! We have brought together and produced over 30 catalogues of imaginary exhibitions #monoskopxl
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This winter, I swapped out a "Contemporary Poetry" course for SPOT—a collective platform for hovering through close, hyper, machine, creative, &generative (w)reading poetry online—it's here: spotpoetry.us
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Danny Snelson retweeted
Make (No) Bones@nobonespodcast
9 Mar 2017
Episode 16 is here! Listen to @dss_edit read and discuss his latest project, "Apocalypse Diary" now: makenobonespodcast.org/maken…

Episode 16: An Interview with Danny Snelson — Make (No) Bones

Danny Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist. He is the author of Radios  (Make Now Press, 2016),  EXE TXT  (Gauss PDF, 2015),  Epic Lyric Poem  (Troll Thread, 2015), and Inventory Arousal  with...

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All tnx to you Toby! x.com/br0_watch/status/71355…

Toby Altman@toby_altman
26 Mar 2016
Tonight's absinthe and zygote was literally the best here's @jhenrychunko
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