Chemical Process: “It takes 1 cup wine 1/2 hr to reduce by 1/2 at 400 degs.”

Digestion started in 2009 as a set of experiments about metabolizing information. Eaders Digest currently takes the form of a publication.

In each issue, a six-stage metabolic reaction is begun. A previously published text is selected and sent to the first participant, who is asked to digest the text into another piece that must be a fixed number of words fewer than the original. The response can take any form within the word count constraint, borrowing from or transforming the source material. The digested text is sent to the next contributor with the same instructions. The word count shrinks weekly, until the final reduction phase is performed by the writer of the first seminal text.