NMR "The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin" by William Burroughs

Brion Gysin was a painter and writer in the 1950s & 60s. He conducted experiment where he cut up newspaper articles and rearranged them at random to create a new, coherent prose. This cut-up method is similar to collage and camera/film editing. This idea of "cut and paste" would then be applied to several things including game and military strategy, the processing of scientific data, and computer use.