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Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process- rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.
(Source: Publisher's abstract)
Scott Rettberg - 04.04.2017 - 12:32
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Playing the Blues: Pete Townshend's Who I Am and Music as Experimental Autobiography
Reviewer Tim Keane suggests that Pete Townshend’s memoir Who I Am captures the tension animating The Who’s career, the duality of autobiographical blues and (art-school inspired) auto-destruction. But, Keane suggests, the book also articulates the written autobiography’s inevitable (if sometimes interesting) failure to achieve the "ex-static" atemporality of music. "I Can’t Explain" ends up telling us more about Townshend’s soul than Who I Am.
Pål Alvsaker - 12.09.2017 - 15:10
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Simultaneously Reading/Writing Under/Destroyed My Life
Maria Damon reviews Alan Sondheim’s Writing Under: Selections from the Internet Text in light of the literature of John Fahey to demonstrate that those texts, like her performative review of them, enact a “mastering/dismantling itch twitch” that has a “life of its own, moving through the artist in a parasitic way.”
Eirik Tveit - 12.09.2017 - 15:12
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Cary Wolfe, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
John Bruni contends that Cary Wolfe’s latest book “Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame” discusses the “legal issues that inform our relationships with non-human animals.” Bruni writes that in doing so Wolfe dissects the process of law-making and appearing “before the law” as animals, which might be potentially harmful and eclipse the existence of animals beyond the human sphere. According to Bruni what distinguishes Wolfe’s perspective is that he does not promote any form of “ecological self-righteousness” but rather asks the question whether we need to move beyond species-based discourses that constantly pits humans and animals against each other in an essentially unwinnable impasse—to a more ethical approach that may expand the “community of living.”
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animality)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:31
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I Am the Cosmos
In his review of Christian Moraru’s recent Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary, Aron Pease considers the merits of the periodization advanced in that work. Ultimately, Pease argues that while the emphasis Moraru places on cosmodernism literature’s “relationality” means that the it is able to “register ‘the other’ as a concrete and organizing presence rather than as an abstract theme”, Moraru’s reliance on the nebulous term “globalization” fails to account for the extent to which the literature characterized as cosmodern reflects the political economy of late capitalism.
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Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 12:56
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The Abdication of the Cultural Elite
Andrew Reynolds reviews Stephen Schryer’s Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction, which argues for an instrumental form of intellectual labor in the service of broader social goals. Comparing novelists and sociologists representative of this new class, Schryer detects a self-defeating strategy in their rejection of collective instrumentalism in favor of individual dissemination of cultural education. Where Schryer closes by criticizing recent conceptions of an alternative economy of non-instrumental intellectual work within the university as a fantasy, Reynolds observes a “performative contradiction” at work in Schryer’s text and suggests that it is a good thing.
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Filip Falk - 26.09.2017 - 13:31
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The Lost Illusions of an Amazonian Forkbomb : What Lies Beyond The Print Capitalism of The Gutenberg Galaxy?
The Lost Illusions of an Amazonian Forkbomb : What Lies Beyond The Print Capitalism of The Gutenberg Galaxy?
Søren Pold - 31.10.2017 - 14:13
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The Printing Press of Ebooks : Where to Shelve the Gutenberg Galaxy in the Amazon Cloud?
The Printing Press of Ebooks : Where to Shelve the Gutenberg Galaxy in the Amazon Cloud?
Søren Pold - 31.10.2017 - 14:19
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From Dada to Digital: Experimental Poetry in the Media Age
At least since Mallarme, if not before, poets in the Western tradition have responded to changes in media technologies by reflecting on their own relationship to language, and by reassessing the limits and possibilities of poetry. In the German- speaking world, this tendency has been pronounced in a number of experimental movements: Dada, particularly in Zurich and Berlin between 1916 and 1921; Concrete poetry, especially its Swiss and German variants in the 1950s and '60s; and finally, digital or electronic poetry, a genre that is still developing all around the world, but has roots in Germany dating back to the late 1950s. For each of these movements, the increasing dominance of new media technologies contributes to an understanding of language as something material, quantifiable, and external to its human users, and casts doubt on the function of language as a means of subjective expression, particularly in the context of poetry.
Patricia Tomaszek - 07.08.2018 - 14:27
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
Chiara Agostinelli - 22.09.2018 - 19:57
