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1. Digital Letterisms: Alternumeric Orders

   Digital Letterisms: Alternumeric Orders

   Ana Castello - 13.10.2018 - 16:51

2. Beyond Oral/Digital: Ghanaian Electronic Literature as a Paradigm for African Digital Textuality

   This dissertation speaks to a massive dearth of research in African electronic literature (African e-lit), a discipline that boasts a growing number of works but little scholarship. With African literature incorporating digital technology into its creative process, and with electronic literary criticism focusing on areas outside its predominantly western cannon, African e-lit positions itself as an important area of scholarly endeavor. After considering the implications of placing African e-lit as the direction in which both African literature and electronic literature take, this dissertation looks at three different genres of African e-lit in the context of oral literature. There are analyses of examples of concrete poetry, conceptual poetry, and mobile video games, all from Ghana. Ultimately, the aim of this project is to ascertain the ways in which oral tradition influences the nature, form, and shape of African electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.10.2018 - 23:20

3. Mail Art and Ephemera

   Mail Art and Ephemera

   Ana Castello - 28.10.2018 - 13:53

4. Source Code: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Meaning-Making in Generative Literature

   I consider the role of the source code of generative literature in the process of meaning making. The significance of code in the cultural meaning of generative works means the source code becomes a key factor to explore in literary studies. I use Critical Code Studies (Marino) which rejects the practice of only analyzing the output of electronic literature and instead proposes to look at code from a humanities perspective as an integral part of coded literature. To specify this emerging field specifically for generative literature, I propose a distinction between three levels on which the code is involved in the meaning-making process of generative literature: the linguistic level, the literary level. and the cultural level. On the linguistic level, I draw from structuralism, using Jakobson's notions of selection and combination as outlined in "Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances". Generative literature shows the meaning of language explicitly via selection and combination of linguistic units, and adds to this process a literary meaning employing the process of chiasm and overwriting.

   Hannah Ackermans - 28.11.2018 - 11:33

5. Curating Digital Archives: Interoperability and Appropriation @ PO-EX.NET

   The inherent complexity of multimodal databases constitutes a challenge in terms of structuring and interoperability. However, it also stimulates the translation of organized data into enhanced and adaptable interfaces. Using the Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature (www.po-ex.net) as a framework, I will describe possible strategies for curating digital archives, through appropriation and remixing of database assets, allowing artistic and creative re-interpretations of experimental and electronic literature.

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   Hannah Ackermans - 07.12.2018 - 11:03

6. Latin American Electronic Literature: When, Where and Why

   Latin American Electronic Literature: When, Where and Why

   Claudia Kozak - 07.12.2018 - 23:50

7. Space and Landscape in Hearts and Minds: The Interrogation Project – Uncomfortable Proximities

   This article focuses on the panoramic digital work Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, and examines how it uses immersive audiovisual experience to examine the relationship between narrative memory, space and landscape. It argues that the spatial aesthetic of the work forces the audience members, the artists, and the narrators to interrogate their own conflicted positions in relation to the narratives of military power and torture. Hearts and Minds engages with visual perspective and space, and focalization through individual human voices, to consider agency, victimhood, witnessing and trauma, and does this in a manner that denies its audience a detached position from which to observe the events set in its digitally created environment.

   Anna Nacher - 08.04.2019 - 20:41

8. In Search of a Female Technological Identity in Electronic Literature: Dancing with the Spanish Domestic Cyborg

   This chapter explores some of the most engaging female voices in Hispanic digital literature, aiming at discovering the singularity of their proposals and attempting to find patterns that will disclose, or not, the existence of a female techno-cultural identity in the field. This review of the work of female digital literature creators in Spanish responds to two main needs. First, to make visible the difference and give a space to women artists that create and type in Spanish. Second, to analyze the strategies used by women authors to discover whether common political strategies of possibility and difference are being generated, if similar models are being propagated, or, on the other hand, if these practices are solely tied by the gender of their authors.

   Laura Sánchez Gómez - 11.06.2019 - 13:53

9. Mapping Spanish E-lit, networks, Readings and Communities

   This intervention will focus on the circulation of digital literature in the Spanishspeaking context, from a distant reading perspective, analyzing digital literature as information, and its pieces as global artifacts in circulation. The aim is to discover how local processes co-exist and dialogue in a global network that is changing the way that texts are distributed and accessed, and it is modifying the very essence of texts themselves.

   Laura Sánchez Gómez - 11.06.2019 - 14:04

10. Plain Text. The Poetics of Computation

    This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's strange enmeshing of humans, texts, and machines to argue that our most ingrained intuitions about texts are profoundly alienated from the physical contexts of their intellectual production. Drawing on a range of primary sources from both literary theory and software engineering, he makes a case for a more transparent practice of human–computer interaction. Plain Text is thus a rallying call, a frame of mind as much as a file format. It reminds us, ultimately, that our devices also encode specific modes of governance and control that must remain available to interpretation.
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    Gesa Blume - 24.09.2019 - 14:36

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