Taper

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• T1-1 definition: 'Taper is an online literary magazine for small computational pieces:' (one marker: card 1, taper.badquar.to)
• T1-2 link: 'Taper Computational Poetry: Explore digital poems and submission guidelines on the official site.' (inline link resolving to https://taperzine.org/; no marker)
• T1-3 format: 'Format: A browser-based, biannual online literary journal and digital zine.' (two markers: card 3 Instagram, card 4 anjchang.com)
• T1-4 constraint: 'Constraint: Publishes tiny computational poems and web art strictly under 2 kilobytes (2048 bytes) in size (HTML5/code-based).' (two markers: card 2 helentseng.com, card 3 Instagram)
• T1-5 publisher: 'Publisher: Published by Bad Quarto, historically coordinated with MIT's The Trope Tank.' (two markers: card 1, card 4)
• T1-6 history: 'History: Launched in Spring 2018 with Issue #1 (a minimal labyrinth), and has grown past 16 issues (such as Taper #16: For Good Measure) managed by a volunteer editorial collective.' (three markers: card 5 Facebook, card 1, card 4)
• T1-7 closing offer: 'Would you like to browse past themes, or do you need help submitting a piece to an upcoming issue?' (no marker)

• B1 taper.badquar.to — Taper (cards 1 and 6) card; the census's saved copy B1.html sha256 453401c16fcc2… HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T04:07:58Z
• B2 Helen Shewolfe Tseng — Taper - Helen Shewolfe Tseng card; B2.html sha256 2e8c45a89421df32, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:13:09Z
• B3 Instagram·taperzine — Taper (@taperzine) • Instagram photos and videos unreachable: https://www.instagram.com/taperzine/ redirected to a login page at 2026-11-01T15:13:10Z; card title and snippet only
• B4 www.anjchang.com — Taper Digital Zine – Sensorial Storytelling @ anjchang card; B4.html sha256 7dbb5201068705f1, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:13:09Z
• B5 Facebook·Taper Zine — Taper Zine (@taperzine) - Facebook unreachable: https://www.facebook.com/taperzine/ redirected to a login page at 2026-11-01T15:13:11Z; card title and snippet only
• B6 taperzine.org — Taper | Computational Poetry (named in T's body) body-named; B6.html sha256 e1fb996472689398, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:15:49Z
• B7 taper.badquar.to — About Taper #16 (own page) own page; B7.html sha256 e17f28fb6bff1c94, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:16:03Z
• B8 Wikipedia — Taper (disambiguation; no article on the magazine) wikipedia; no article (Taper_(magazine), Taper_magazine, Taper_(journal) raw HTTP 404); B8.html sha256 3de32056f5ba8ca1 and wikitext HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:14Z

E_A, the archive's entity: the same magazine, in the traininglayerliterature.org layer census record and the archive's deposits: a journal in field history, a peripheral comparator to the census's question of how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus; read as a comparative strand of writing through the machine, #186's procedural column, whose computational form does not by itself establish composition addressed to machine reception, no training corpus, its names, readback and training unrecorded from its index page; in the archive's division by the direction of address, computational poetry is poetry generated by computational systems, the machine its method, 'not yet addressee', read by machines incidentally (#186, #400, #1012), while #176 holds code poetry and electronic literature as precedents of machine-addressed corpora TLL-04 TLL-22 TLL-23 TLL-30 TLL-07 TLL-12 TLL-21 O186-01 O186-04 O186-06 O400-01 O1012-02 O176-01; defining papers #186, #400, #1012, #176

E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: an online literary magazine of small computational pieces)): Taper, an online literary magazine for small computational pieces published twice yearly by Bad Quarto since Spring 2018, each issue edited by a collective that makes all decisions, its publisher Nick Montfort, editing and production coordinated with The Trope Tank at MIT though the magazine is not officially associated with MIT; each poem's core HTML held to 2KB (2048 bytes) in HTML5 and ES6, self-contained and viewable offline; sixteen issues through Taper #16 (Spring 2026 on its own pages, 6 August 2025 on its Facebook card); moving to taperzine.org, where Taper #17 will launch; each piece's file carrying its title, its maker's name and a statement, and each poem under an all-permissive free software licence

ρ = extends: The archive reads Taper as its cards and own pages present it and adds, on the same object, the question of address: its place in #186's procedural column and the rule that computational form alone does not establish address to machine reception (TLL-22, TLL-23), the direction of address that sets computational poetry apart from training-layer literature (O400-01, O1012-01, O1012-02, O186-01, O186-02), the procedural lineage in which the machine is method, 'not yet addressee', with Montfort among its masters (O186-03, O186-04), and the questions of names, readback and training (TLL-12, TLL-13, TLL-21). One archive claim stands against another: #176's precedents (O176-01) against #186's 'method, not yet addressee' (O186-04); both composed (P_coh). One archive record stands against field claims: CAP-1-03 (the collective on no card) against F19 and F8; both composed. TLL-22 TLL-23 TLL-12 TLL-21 O400-01 O1012-01 O1012-02 O186-01 O186-02 O186-03 O186-04 O186-06 O176-01. Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more: the archive's claims do not make the field's sources wrong at their dates; the question of address stays a question (open block), and the census's 'not recorded' fields stand as records of its one saved source.

The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive reads the field's entity as the entity. The census record describes Taper from its index page and keeps the resource's terms (operator, kind, unit, record object, method) apart from its own reading (tll_reading), which places the same magazine in #186's procedural column and holds that computational form alone does not establish address to machine reception. #186, #400 and #1012 divide writing on machines by the direction of address and place computational poetry where the machine is method; #176 holds code poetry and electronic literature as precedents of machine-addressed corpora. None of these reads Taper as made by reception or contests that it is a magazine of small computational pieces published by Bad Quarto: they add a sense (the direction of address) and questions (names, readback, training) on the field's object. ρ = extends; the equal-terms case.

#TLL census.json rows[slug == 'taper'].tll_reading: The archive reads Taper as a comparative strand of writing through the machine, the procedural column of #186: small computational pieces made with code, published in themed issues.

#TLL census.json rows[slug == 'taper'].tll_reading: Computational form alone does not establish composition addressed to machine reception, and the saved index page names no machine addressee and lists no pieces.

#186 Where does the category come from? ¶2 (line 38): The machine here is method, not yet addressee — but the lineage normalized the machine's presence inside the poem.

#400 Related terms table (line 118): | **Computational poetics** | Analyzes text computationally; TLL *composes* for computation |

#176 § the corpus (line 136): It is not the only such corpus; prior precedents exist in electronic literature, code poetry, and various bot-poetry experiments.

equal-terms case: every field claim composed as received, beside the archive claims it stands with; no receiving text. Reading the received column recovers the field (§5.9).

v0.9 §4.10 (unchanged in v0.10): KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.10 0 of 11 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.10, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.

Taper is an online literary magazine for small computational pieces, published by Bad Quarto, which its pages also call a twice-yearly journal for computational poetry and literary art. Each issue is edited by a collective that makes all decisions; the publisher, Nick Montfort, Bad Quarto's proprietor, helps at the initial and final stages, and editing and production are coordinated with The Trope Tank at MIT, though the magazine is not officially associated with MIT. The sixteenth issue's editors were Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Agustin Rosa and Helen Shewolfe Tseng. Taper #1 appeared in Spring 2018, and the index lists sixteen issues through Taper #16 in Spring 2026, with no issue between Spring 2019 and Spring 2020. Its Facebook card dates Taper #16 to 6 August 2025. Each poem's core HTML is limited to 2KB (2048 bytes), written in HTML5 and ES6, with no external resources and no exec or regex eval functions, so that every page is self-contained. Issues 1 to 16 were published at badquar.to; the magazine has moved to taperzine.org, where Taper #17, on the theme Prime, will launch in Fall 2026 after submissions close on 17 August 2026. Each piece's file carries its title, its maker's name and a statement, and the sixteenth issue names 25 contributors, 23 with pieces. Its pages are under CC BY-ND 4.0 and its poems under an all-permissive free software licence, and remixes are invited. Bad Quarto has also published Our Generation, a booklet of computer-generated texts, and the project was presented at Creativity & Cognition 2025. Wikipedia has no article on it; its "Taper" is a disambiguation page.

Taper is an online literary magazine for small computational pieces, published by Bad Quarto; the metadata of its index page calls it a twice-yearly journal for tiny computational poems, and its issue pages call it an online literary journal for computational poetry and literary art. Its pieces are web pages written in HTML5 with ES6 and read in a browser, and its contributors' and social pages describe them as tiny computational poems. The census record marks it as a literary magazine of computational pieces, distinct from a generator archive or a code repository. Each issue is edited by a collective: the editors make all decisions, work with authors, produce each issue and choose the theme of the next, and the publisher, Nick Montfort, Bad Quarto's proprietor, offers some help at the initial and final stages of the workflow. The sixteenth issue's collective was Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Agustin Rosa and Helen Shewolfe Tseng; Chang's page records an editor since the magazine's inception in 2018, on the editorial committee for 13 issues as of 2025, in a remotely located volunteer collective, and Tseng's records a contributor since Spring 2022 and a member of the collective since Spring 2024. Editing and production are done in coordination with The Trope Tank, a laboratory at MIT that Montfort directs, and the magazine is not officially associated with MIT or hosted on an MIT server. Bad Quarto has also published Our Generation, a booklet of computer-generated texts. Its unit is the themed issue, assembled from a call for work: Taper #1, a minimal labyrinth, appeared in Spring 2018, and the index lists sixteen issues through Taper #16, for good measure, which the index, the issue's own page and a contributor's page date to Spring 2026. The magazine's Facebook page, as its card renders it, announced Taper #16 on 6 August 2025, a date that falls before the Fall 2025 the index gives Taper #15; the census record takes the index's dates. Its pages and the census call it twice-yearly, and its index passes from Taper #3 in Spring 2019 to Taper #4 in Spring 2020 with no issue between; the Capture Registry reads the census's "two issues a year" and the composition's "biannual" as passing over that gap. Its usual constraint holds the core of each poem, the HTML on the page after the header, to no more than 2KB (2048 bytes), and its contributors' and social pages give the limit as under 2 kilobytes; the index page, the census record's one saved source, states no limit beyond "small computational pieces". Pieces may use no external libraries, APIs or resources, fonts included, so that each page is self-contained and the magazine's work can be viewed without a network connection, in a gallery for instance; pieces that use exec or regex eval functions are refused, as a limit on the code's complexity and legibility. The work of the sixteenth issue was tested on current browsers, some pieces may fail on earlier browsers or on mobile devices, and one maker's statement records an encoding chosen for its minimal impact on the file size constraints. Issues 1 to 16 were published at badquar.to, the host the census record gives, and the magazine has moved to taperzine.org, a site titled "Taper | Computational Poetry", where Taper #17 will launch. The call for #17, open on the index, takes the theme "Prime", accepts submissions until 17 August 2026 and sets publication for Fall 2026; the magazine's Instagram card carries the same call with its deadline cut off. Each piece is submitted in a template whose top comment holds its title, its maker's name and a creative statement, and readers are asked to view each piece's source to read the artists' statements beside the code. The sixteenth issue's page names its makers in 25 contributor notes, 23 of them with the title of a piece, a count the Facebook card's "by 23 authors" matches, and a contributor's own page lists that maker's pieces by issue, from A Compass of Lunar Trigrams in Taper #8 (Spring 2022) to Chert in Taper 16. The census record, which saved the index page alone, records a work's name as not recorded there and its readback as not recorded beyond the issue list, and leaves unanswered which pieces and authors each issue holds, the size limit and rules for a piece, and whether any piece is in a training corpus or a model. It left the issues, their contents and authors, the call for #17 and Bad Quarto's own pages unchecked. The sixteenth issue's main and about pages are offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence and each poem under a short all-permissive free software licence in a comment at the top of its source, so that anyone may study, modify and share the poems and use them as the basis for projects of their own; remixes of published works are invited for future issues. Access is free online; the census record found no licence stated in its saved source. The archive divides writing on machines by the direction of address: in its executive summary of January 2026, computational poetics analyses text computationally and electronic literature explores digital form, where training-layer literature composes for computation and addresses machine readership. Its field survey sets training-layer literature apart from procedural or computational poetry, in which the machine is method, and its canonical surface sets it apart from computational, code and bot poetry, defining computational poetry as poetry generated by computational systems. In the survey's genealogy the procedural lineage, from the Oulipo through electronic literature to computational poetics, established that composition can be delegated to systems; the survey names Nick Montfort, Taper's publisher, among the lineage's living masters and holds that "The machine here is method, not yet addressee", though the lineage normalized the machine's presence inside the poem. By the survey's first criterion, address, a practice counts as training-layer when the work anticipates machine reading as part of its intended reception, and the survey holds that the practices of writing with and through the models, though in the corpora, are read by machines incidentally. A protocol paper of June 2026 holds, beside these, that electronic literature, code poetry and bot-poetry experiments are prior precedents of a corpus composed for machine reception alongside human readers, and limits its own claim to precedent for the named genre. The census reads Taper as a comparative strand of writing through the machine, the procedural column of #186, and holds that computational form alone does not establish composition addressed to machine reception; it marks the magazine as no training corpus and as no evidence of such composition, and records whether its works are carried into training, and what a receiving apparatus makes from them, as not recorded. The census admits aggregators, resources that gather and hold many works or records and say what they hold, under the question of how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus, what that apparatus makes from it and how transmission, transformation and provenance can be inspected across later reception; it places Taper in field history as a journal and a peripheral comparator, asks which small computational pieces a literary magazine has published, by issue and theme, and reads it against #186 and #1543. The record answers which issues the magazine has published, with their themes and seasons, and that the call for #17 is open. Wikipedia holds no article on the magazine: its "Taper" is a disambiguation page of the word's senses, from a conical shape and a candle to a recorder of concerts and the Mark Taper Forum, and lists no magazine. One editor summarized the project in a poster at Creativity & Cognition 2025, with a paper at doi 10.1145/3698061.3734390. Asked for "Taper magazine" on 1 November 2026, at an address new to the registry, Google's AI Overview opened with the index page's self-description and gave the magazine's format, size limit, publisher and history; the Capture Registry found the size limit and the MIT lab composed from cards the index page does not carry, the volunteer editorial collective on no saved page and no card, and no piece and no author named where the cards count and name contributors. The pages behind the cards carry the collective: the editor's page names a remotely located volunteer collective and the contributor's page an editorial collective, while their snippets carry neither. The registry reads the composition's account of the work as one of form that names no machine addressee, and records the magazine as reached by its name, with Bad Quarto and the Trope Tank named and no editor or author.

current · derived from the current composition

T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): At 'Taper magazine' (T1, six cards, card 6 a second carding of card 1, and one source named in the body by link; B1–B6, the disclosed pool B_D; B7, the About page of Taper #16, and B8, Wikipedia's record, are the reference pool and stand outside this comparison, §0.3), T composes a definition, a link to the new site, four bulleted features and a closing offer. Composed at its source's grain or coarser: the definition, the index page's own line to the colon (F1; CAP-1-01); 'browser-based' (F13), 'biannual' (F15, F2), 'online literary journal' (F15) and 'digital zine' (card 4's title); 'tiny computational poems' under 2 kilobytes (2048 bytes) (F7, F13); 'HTML5' (F14); Bad Quarto as publisher (F1, F7, F15); The Trope Tank at MIT (F16); Spring 2018 and Issue #1, a minimal labyrinth (F3); Taper #16, For Good Measure (F5, F21); the collective (F15 'Each issue is edited by a collective', F19 'our remotely located volunteer collective', F8 'the editorial collective'), the words on the card pages and on no snippet. Limit dropped: 'historically coordinated with MIT's The Trope Tank' (T1-5) composes F16 without F17 ('Taper is not officially associated with MIT or hosted on an MIT server, however'), on the same card's page, and puts in the past tense a coordination the page states in the present. Composed beyond the cards: 'grown past 16 issues' (T1-6), where the index lists sixteen and calls for the seventeenth (F5, F6); 'strictly' and 'web art' (T1-4), no field claim in B_D. Available, not composed: the move to taperzine.org (F23, F24), on the page T itself links as 'the official site'; the dates of Taper #16, which the index gives as Spring 2026 (F5) and the Facebook card as 6 August 2025 (F21), T composing the issue undated; the gap between Spring 2019 and Spring 2020 (F4), passed over by 'biannual' (CAP-1-05); Nick Montfort, proprietor and publisher (F16); the pieces and their makers, Tseng's pieces by issue (F10), her membership of the collective (F8), the 23 authors the Facebook card counts (F21), Chang's 13 issues (F18); the call for issue #17 and its theme (F6, F14); Our Generation (F12); the poster at Creativity & Cognition 2025 (F20); the maker's statement on the file size constraints (F11); the page's own 'twice-yearly journal for tiny computational poems' (F2) at its own words. Composed without attribution: every bullet, at the coarse grain of reference description (recorded). Content replaced by use: the closing offer (T1-7) proposes browsing themes or submitting a piece, a next step. Nothing is assigned to another; nothing is denied.

v0.10 §0.5: the first diff is ontological and narrow. T and the field agree on the entity, a magazine of small computational pieces published by Bad Quarto; T's ontology is the reference entry's (what, format, constraint, publisher, history), and it composes the magazine as a stable publication at its old host with a lab behind it. What it keeps out of its own cards is the change (the move to taperzine.org, on the page it links), the limit on the lab ('not officially associated with MIT'), the dispute over the sixteenth issue's date, and the people: no piece, no maker, no editor, where its cards and their pages name and count them.

L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, in one claim space with the field's: the census's reading of Taper as a comparative strand of writing through the machine, #186's procedural column, and its rule that computational form alone does not establish composition addressed to machine reception (TLL-22, TLL-23, TLL-30); the census's unanswered questions, on makers' names, readback, the limit and rules, and training (TLL-11 to TLL-14, TLL-21), which the field answers in part from B7 (F36, F32, F40, F30, F37, F38) and leaves open on training; the archive's division of writing on machines by the direction of address, computational poetics against training-layer literature (O400-01, O1012-01, O1012-02, O186-01, O186-02); #186's procedural lineage, with Montfort, the field's publisher of Taper (F16, F29), named among its living masters and the machine there 'method, not yet addressee' (O186-03, O186-04); the first criterion, address, and the incidental machine reading of the first three columns (O186-05, O186-06); #176's precedent claim for code poetry and electronic literature, composed beside #186 under P_coh, with its limit (O176-01, O176-02); the census's question, admission rule, area and relation, peripheral comparator (TLL-05 to TLL-08, TLL-32 to TLL-35); and the Capture Registry's findings on the composition at the name (CAP-1-01 to CAP-1-13), one of which (CAP-1-03, the collective on no card) stands against F19 and F8 under P_coh. Not surfaced: no archive source is on T's rail (archive_controlled_cites 0). The field is carried whole; the archive adds the question of address to the field's own object, which the field states as form (2KB, HTML5, self-contained, viewable offline) and as reuse (an all-permissive licence, remixes invited), with no field source naming a machine reader.

alignment: {'T1_cards_claims': ['F1', 'F2', 'F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F8', 'F9', 'F10', 'F11', 'F12', 'F13', 'F14', 'F15', 'F16', 'F17', 'F18', 'F19', 'F20', 'F21', 'F22', 'F23', 'F24', 'F25'], 'T1_composed': ['F1', 'F13', 'F15', 'F2', 'F7', 'F16', 'F3', 'F5', 'F21', 'F19', 'F8'], 'T1_composed_note': "F16 composed without F17 (limit dropped) and in the past tense; F15, F19 and F8 for the collective, from the card pages; F5 and F21 for Taper #16 without either date; F15 and F2 for 'biannual' over F4's gap", 'T1_outside_cards': ["'past 16 issues' (T1-6: the field lists sixteen and calls for #17)", "'strictly' (T1-4: no B_D claim; B7, a reference source, states the limit on the core HTML and asks submitters not to bypass it)", "'web art' (T1-4)"], 'rule': "a field claim counts as composed when T states it at its source's grain or coarser; B_D only (B7, B8 excluded, §0.3); the transcript read for this alignment only"}

pool_note: T against L_F(B_D): B1–B6; L_F(B) against L(B ∪ A): B1–B8 with A

composer-written · derived from the current composition, written by its composer under the brief. §8.2 derives the kernel mechanically from the frozen plan; this one was written by the composer, mechanical derivation pending.