Dichtung Digital 40
This edition reflects upon the need of techniques to approach the ongoing upheavals taking place in today's technology-driven production of (literary) art. The contributions assembled here all discuss ways of reading cultural objects created with digital media. The objects of interest are: a computer game (Soderman), a performance of a work that houses and visualizes its literary artifacts on a website - a huge database of texts by different authors (Rettberg), default settings and electronic poetics in an age of technological determinism (Heckman), literary artifacts in between book and programmable media (Vincler), story-telling in the Gulf (Lenze), and signs in a culture of mashups (Navas). In a time when cultural objects in digital culture reconfigure the reception of their addressees, it is important to develop not only a proper understanding of the impact of these ruptures on literary communication but also an interpretation of the presented moves into the scope of scholarly discussion. Such an engagement calls for what Roberto Simanowski proposes in his contribution: "digital hermeneutics."
Contents (Critical Writing):
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| (Re-)Reading Moving Letters: Love Notes, Codes and Digital Curtains: A Review | Martina Pfeiler |
| Electronic Literature and the Mashup of Analog and Digital Code | Eduardo Navas |
| Inside Outside the Box: Default Settings and Electronic Poetics | Davin Heckman |
| Performative Reading: Attending The Last Performance [dot org] | Scott Rettberg |
| Reading Digital Cultural Objects | Patricia Tomaszek |
| The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print | John M. Vincler |
| Understanding New Media Art Through Close Reading. Four Remarks on Digital Hermeneutics | Roberto Simanowski |
