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Intent is Important (a sketch for a progressive criticism)
Miles has contributed three nodes to this issue of JoDI. In "Intent is Important (a sketch for a progressive criticism) he discusses the question of authorial intent, arguing that hypertext criticism must not only consider a work's literary merits but also consider how what may seem to be technical imperfections can be intended, crucial aspects of a work.
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Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 13:02
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Generating Books: Paradoxical Print Snapshots of Digital Literary Processes
Since the advent of the internet, advocates and critics alike have heralded the end of the book. George P. Landow observed that hypertextuality and poststructuralism emerged at the same moment, both due to dissatisfaction with the printed book and hierarchal thought. Derrida argued the question of writing could only be opened if the book was closed. Consider, then, the paradoxical position of Vienna-based publishers TRAUMAWIEN. Recognizing that although the vast majority of the text produced by computer systems – protocols, listings, error logs, binary codes – is never seen or read by those who consume it, this text is internal to our daily thoughts and actions and is thus literary. TRAUMAWIEN conceives of the print books it publishes as snapshots of computer generated literary processes which would otherwise be disappearing as soon as they are written. This paper will discuss the iterative processes by which I generated one such book published by TRAUMAWIEN in 2010.
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 12:05
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Performing Digital Texts in European Contexts
Performing Digital Texts in European Contexts: collecting, recollecting and commenting on digital texts and contexts operating in the inter-zones where digital media, literature, visual art and performance practices meet.
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 13:02
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CONT3XT.NET is Everything
CONT3XT.NET is Everything
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 13:13
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Kac, Cayley, and Kargl on Translation
Kac, Cayley, and Kargl on Translation
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 13:19
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Writing to be Found and Writing Readers
Poetic writing for programmable and network media seems to have been captivated by the affordances of new media and questions of whether or not and if so, how certain novel, media-constituted properties and methods of literary objects require us to reassess and reconfigure the literary itself. What if we shift our attention decidedly to practices, processes, procedures — towards ways of writing and ways of reading rather than dwelling on either textual artifacts themselves (even time-based literary objects) or the concepts underpinning objects-as-artifact? What else can we do, given that we must now write on, for, and with the net which is itself no object but a seething mass of manifold processes?
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.12.2011 - 10:59
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Massively Multireader: A Networked Teaching of House of Leaves across Five Classrooms
Why read an incredibly complex novel by yourself when you can tackle it with 60 other students across the nation? This presentation will report on a cross-campus experiment in scholarly communication, digital making, and classroom shifting at five public, private, and small liberal arts schools.
Patricia Tomaszek - 03.12.2011 - 19:00
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Writing for the New Millennium: The Birth of Electronic Literature
Robert Kendall describes his work in electronic literature from 1990 to 1995, and presents the field in general to a general literary audience. The article in its online form includes many links. This is also an early use of the term "electronic literature" to describe the field.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.12.2011 - 13:02
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Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing
In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today’s writers.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:03
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Warfare and Conventionality: How avant-garde computer-generated text can be
Computer generated text has been considered warfare carried out against conventionality and was accordingly tagged “cybernetic Dadaism”, which seems to be obvious given that most computer generated text is nonsensical. However, there are attempts to have the machine generate meaningful text ideally indistinguishable from text by a human. This is where the problem starts. If a machine aims to be as good as a human writer, can it still afford to do what a human writer may aim at: writing like a machine? Wouldn’t any idiosyncratic style – which might in conventionally generated literature be understood as avant-garde – be perceived as a failure of the program? In other words: Can literature be avant-garde (or rather: advanced) in both, its way of production as well as its style? The lecture will discuss the issue with a closer look at Michael Mateas’ and Andrew Stern’s interactive drama Façade.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:44
