Locating the Literary in New Media

Rather than the endless expansion of markets and identities typical of the new liberal economic regime, and in contrast to the current overproduction of both popular entertainments and academic publications, the literary countertradition identified by Kevorkian, in its various attempts at "thinking inside the black box," seeks to know the mechanisms that both constrain expression and create alternative possibilities.

It is worth listing the authors in Kevorkian's counterweb, to give an idea of what a literary response to the new liberal technoculture might look like: Thomas Pynchon; Richard Powers; Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky; That Subliminal Kid; Jane Smiley; Mary Anne Breeze, a.k.a. Mez; Talan Memmott; Brian Lennon; John Cayley; and Walter Mosley.

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination	Matthew G. Kirschenbaum	2012
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts	N. Katherine Hayles	2005

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections	Joseph Tabbi	On the Human, Transcript	2009
One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature	Marjorie C. Luesebrink		2013
Where Are We Now?: Orienteering in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2	John David Zuern	Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2011

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