Introduction : toward an anthropology of computational creativity
Jazz : mimicry, originality, sociality. "I prefer playing with it to playing with most people" : the computer as a musical conversation partner; An island of interactivity in an ocean of nonreactivity : the trade-offs of a made-to-order artificial musical world; "A device that would generate new musical ideas" : the computer as a source of musical inspiration
Separating noise from signal : the ethnomethdological uncanny as aesthetic pleasure in human-machine interaction
Poetry : indeterminacy, potentiality, intentionality. Computer-generated poetry and some of its aesthetic and technical dimensions; "I randomize, therefore I think" : computational indeterminacy and the tensions of American liberal subjectivity; Analog precursors and their digital logical end : the Oulipo; Crosscurrent and opposing perspectives
Conclusion : neither our doom nor our salvation : open-ended digital systems and cultural critique.