Electronic Literature, Chapter 6: Network Writing
This research collection includes references from the sixth chapter of Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg (Polity, 2018), on Network Writing. Network writing is electronic literature created for and published on the Internet. It may require readers to visit multiple sites to experience the narrative, it may interrogate the nature and materiality of the network itself, it may use the Internet’s potential for collaboration, or use the network as a site for performance. For electronic literature, networks are both platform and material. As technology has led to rapid societal change, one of the most logical extensions of the project of electronic literature is to serve as a locus of reflexive critique of the position of the human within the technological apparatus.
This chapter of Electronic Literature considers various practices of network writing that share an interest in the material properties of the global network and the writing environments it affords. While this constellation of practices is admittedly less squarely defined than some of the other genres addressed in the book, as it includes several subgenres with their own specific approaches to the network, there are clearly important strands of electronic literature that primarily engage with the architecture, code, and social structures of the network itself.
People:
Name | Residency |
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Johanna Drucker |
CA
United States
California US
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William Gillespie |
IL
United States
Illinois US
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Scott Rettberg |
Bergen
Norway
NO
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Dirk Stratton |
WA
United States
Washington US
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Frank Marquardt |
CA
United States
California US
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Rob Wittig |
Duluth
, MN
United States
Minnesota US
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Philip Wohlstetter |
Seattle
, WA
United States
Washington US
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Judd Morrissey |
Chicago
United States
US
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Mark Jeffery |
Chicago
United States
US
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N. Katherine Hayles |
Durham
, NC
United States
North Carolina US
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Tom Phillips | |
Christy Dena |
Parkville
Australia
AU
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Jill Walker Rettberg |
Bergen
Norway
NO
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Talan Memmott |
United States
US
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Caleb Crain |
United States
US
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Rob Wittig |
Duluth
, MN
United States
Minnesota US
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Mark C. Marino |
Los Angeles
, CA
United States
California US
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Ray Johnson | |
Alan Sondheim |
United States
US
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Mez Breeze |
Australia
AU
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Organizations:
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Mass-Observation |