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Avoiding the digital insanity: the attachment to constructivism in Brazilian literature
How to build a nation from words? My hypothesis in this paper is that the constructive role of the written text in Brazilian culture has been holding back its experiments on digital literature.
Ever since its inception, the relationship between Brazil and literature has been quite peculiar. Colonized by Portugal, which had a substantial literary history, the circulation of books and the establishment of the press has been forbidden until century XIX. The legal flow of texts, therefore, occurred shortly before the Brazilian independence in 1822. This fact linked literary expression to the idea of building a nation, especially until the middle of the 20th century
Although some local poets have been distinguished by its satirical and irreverent spirit, it is common to find between the Brazilian writers what the critic Antonio Candido called the "tradição empenhada." (“committed tradition”). This term defined a kind of engagement that sought to reflect in the literary text social utopias.Miriam Takvam - 03.10.2018 - 15:46
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After the Page: Digital Reading Practices and New Media Technology in the Writing Classroom
A significant pedagogical challenge emerging from the recent shift from print to digital-media formats is the need to develop and maintain critical reading strategies for online literary analysis. Because traditional approaches to literature and professional writing were developed to engage different genres of print-based texts, today’s university educators find it pointedly lacking when applied to digital reading environments. This discrepancy appears simultaneously at both a practical and cognitive level. Students reading electronic texts, studies show, are more likely to avoid active note-taking, highlighting key passages or comparing multiple works (Barry, 2012; Gold, 2012). As a result, higher levels of comprehension, including remembering crucial premises and text-specific-terminologies, are adversely affected. Speaking to the difficulty of building critical analyses in electronic formats, one researcher feels “[l]iterary criticism in the academy has reached a crisis point, and what we mean by ‘reading’ stands at the center of the storm” (Freedman, 2015).
Jane Lausten - 03.10.2018 - 15:48
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Splatter Semiotics / Semiotics of Splatter
The paper would be a presentation, with video, on the subject of Splatter Semiotics, and The Semiotics of Splatter, which is concerned with 'messy' digital lit / digital literacy. It will discuss Trump's tweets, Russian hacking, blockchain, and disruptive technologies which possess 'spread' as, not only a form of digital literature, but also a new and dangerous cultural horizon, one that threatens the very foundations of democratic institutions. This work stems out of my thinking about 'gamespace / edgespace / blankspace' that I've presented at other conferences (including ELO); the three terms reference gaming and habitus as forms of political, social, and artistic thinking; I would include a summary of this work and indicate its relationship and dissolution in splatter.
Li Yi - 03.10.2018 - 15:52
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Cling-Clang-Cornelius: Digital Sound Poetry as Embodied Posthumanism
Starting from the problematic gap between the unicity of the human voice and the socio-cultural variables that are unavoidably attached to her expressions, this presentation proposes the phenomenon of ‘sound poetry’ as paradigmatic bridge between a biological reality and its posthuman condition. The underlying reasoning harks back to media artist and philosopher Norie Neumark’s remark that sound poetry like no other mode of artistic expression “stimulates reflection on the uncanny and complicated relation between embodiment, alterity, and signification” (2010). Most notably the appropriation and – literal – embodiment of electronic technologies in digital sound poetry has recently yielded a new dynamic to the performativity of poetic composition. With today’s technical possibility to sample and mediate minimal acoustic nuances in the here-and-now we are allowed a glimpse into the supplement of meaning generated by the meeting between text/script and voice/sound. Such post-human amplification of an intrinsically arch-human act accordingly finds its broader relevance broadside conventional aesthetic standards.
Carlos Muñoz - 03.10.2018 - 15:57
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(Latin American) E-Lit and its Experimental Nature. After the Great Divide?
One of the overarching themes that developed over the course of the conference was the gap between the field of electronic literature and mainstream digital culture. In her keynote, Claudia Kozak refered to this as “The Great Divide” between highbrow culture and lowbrow culture, where electronic literature is considered too experimental for mainstream media because of its use of technology. Kozak says we should not abandon the experiment, but rather bridge the gap, for instance through fan fiction, which she considers to function at the intersection of experimentalism, anti-authorship, and mass culture.
Jana Jankovska - 03.10.2018 - 15:57
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Distant Reading and Digital Reading Practices
In my home discipline of 19th Century Literature, Franco Moretti pioneered the notion of “distant reading,” in contrast to the close reading beloved by New Critics and deconstructionists alike. While close reading’s value to student engagement with both literary texts and their own writing in both classroom and writing center contexts has been demonstrated in practice, what about the value of distant reading for these endeavors?
Distant reading is known for the “graphs, maps, trees” of Moretti’s work of the same name; the results of a textual encounter with the CATA software Voyant remind one very much of a perusal of one of his scholarly works. Engaging with a literary text with CATA software enables students not only to read digital texts but also to contextualize the work on a larger scale, noting patterns of language, structure, and so forth, thus creating material for an effective distant reading.
Jane Lausten - 03.10.2018 - 16:00
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Locative Listening and the Construction of Dynamic Hybrid Space
When the contemporary pedestrian travels from home to work, campus, or coffee shop wearing earphones and listening to a mobile device, he is not trying to find silent refuge from the noise of modern life, rather, he is striving to replace one sonic overwhelm with another of his own choosing. Sound is unique in its ease of subversion and the degree of experiential immersion that can be achieved through such an act. The nature of listening that the author will discuss is one that by way of design takes the quotidian act of mobile listening to a much more structured level of auditory experience with the hope of eliciting an event that is both multi-sensory and potent.
Carlos Muñoz - 03.10.2018 - 16:01
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Divides in the Post-Print Classroom? Bringing Critical Social Research Methods to the Fore
The “post-print” classroom has gained significant momentum in the last decade, with some universities even attempting to mandate “e-text-only” curricula (Kolowich, 2010; Graydon, Urbach-Buholz and Kohen, 2011). The impact this trend has on a range of practical concerns, from literacy and comprehension to classroom and programmatic assessment, should no doubt be a key focus of pedagogical research. But so, too, should students’ and instructors’ perceptions of this shifting environment. What variations exist within groups of students engaging in digital reading practices? How do their experiences differ from those of their instructors? Critical social research methodologies can help gain necessary insight into individual perceptions of digital reading practices. Perhaps more importantly, such methods also enable us to search for the ways in which structural factors such as gender and socioeconomic status may shape variation in such perceptions - and ultimately, how to adapt our practices and tools accordingly.
Jane Lausten - 03.10.2018 - 16:03
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Reading the Ethics and Poetics of the Digital through John Cayley’s The Listeners
Earlier this year, poet-scholar John Cayley proposed that scholars and makers of electronic literature attend to the “delivery media for ‘literature’ that are, historically, taking the place of physical, codex-bound books” (John Cayley, 2017, “Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature,” electronic book review). Among those emerging delivery media are so-called Virtual Digital Assistants (VDA) like Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Apple’s Siri. Capable of interpreting and producing human language, these domestic robots speak in pleasant female voices, offering access to information, music, social media, telephony, and other services. Their terms and conditions inform the consumer that once the device is activated, it records everything that is being said. The proliferation of VDA bears wide-reaching ethical and aesthetic ramifications that scholars in digital media should attend to.
Carlos Muñoz - 03.10.2018 - 16:07
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From Codex to Code: Computational Poetics and the Emergence of the Self- Reading Text
So irretrievably connected is the act of reading to works of print that any comparable digital engagement with a text often seems best considered as a unique activity of its own. Whatever we are doing with words viewed via electronic screens, doggedly poking at them with our fingers, moving them about from document to document with a simple double-click, or jumping erratically from one link to another in an ever-growing, highly fluid hypertext, we are not “reading” them. In her book, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Duke UP, 2014), Lisa Gitelman similarly adds, “[w]ritten genres in general are familiarly treated as if they were equal to or coextensive with the sorts of textual artifacts that habitually embody them. . . . Say the word ‘novel,’ for instance, and your auditors will likely imagine a printed book, even if novels also exist serialized in nineteenth century periodicals, published in triple-decker (multivolume) formats and loaded onto—and reimagined by the designee and users of—Kindles, Nook, and iPads” (3).
Jane Lausten - 03.10.2018 - 16:07
