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Reassembling the Literary: Toward a Theoretical Framework for Literary Communication in Computer-Based Media
Reassembling the Literary: Toward a Theoretical Framework for Literary Communication in Computer-Based Media
Jörgen Schäfer - 09.12.2010 - 01:10
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From Oral Poetry to Tridimensional Poetry
Memory defines human existence both individually and collectively: it is necessary for the evolution of the person and society. The loss of memory leads to the physical and intellectual death of identity. In order to avoid and exorcise existential oblivion, mankind has developed systems to pass on memory and preserve it. One of the oldest of these is poetry that, thanks to its rhythm and rhyme, makes the precise memorizing of a text easier. Thus it effectively communicates the deeds of heroes as well as the prayers, ideals and sentiments that characterize human beings and their culture. Society, thanks also to the heritage of knowledge that has been passed down, continues to evolve and change rapidly: the new technologies transform art, modifying the codes of language and above all the inclusion and typology of the data that constitutes the collective memory. In the era of motion pictures poetry loses some of its evocative effect and its function for transmission. The visual memory is predominant because the brain assimilates information without making the effort of concentrating and decoding input, for example from the sound to the word or from the sign to the word.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 16:47
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Translating Digital Literature. The Example of “I’m simply saying”
Translation Studies have become one of the central disciplines of the "humanities”. Recently, in the MA in Literature progaram where I am the Academic Director, we were working on Digital Poetry and I proposed that students translate a digital poem. I figured this could be a way to penetrate deeply into the meaning of the text, but also in the case of Digital Literature, to understand the dual nature of a digital text, its virtual materiality. I would like to share here a small but significant part of the process.
(Author's abstract from Officina di Letteratura Elettronica/Workshop of Electronic Literature site)
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 17:22
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Teaching Narrative Theory
Teaching Narrative Theory
Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 14:47
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Toward a Semiotic Critique of Computer Poetry
Toward a Semiotic Critique of Computer Poetry
Patricia Tomaszek - 13.01.2011 - 15:45
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First Person: New Media as Story, Performance and Game
Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on "Monopoly" or even on "Magic: the Gathering." Yet it is widely believed that the market for electronic literature—predicted by some to be the future of the written word—languishes. Even bestselling author Stephen King achieved disappointing results with his online publication of "Riding the Bullet" and "The Plant."
Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.01.2011 - 23:08
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How I Was Played by Online Caroline
A close reading of Online Caroline, a story presented as a diary website with videos by Rob Bevan and Tim Wright.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.01.2011 - 23:12
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Choice vs. Interaction: the Case of Online Caroline
Reader choice among links in hypertext has often been classified as a form of interactiuvity and has sometimes been claimed as empowering the reader. The case of the website Online Caroline, however, shows that it is possible for apparent choice and interaction to serve only to further constrain and dictate the reader's experience. We must be careful to distinguish meaningful from superficial choice when evaluating “interactive fiction” and its potential.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.01.2011 - 23:29
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Toward an Ontology of the Field of Digital Poetry
author-submitted abstract:
This essay proposes a model of an ontology based on the ontological model by Spinoza commented by Deleuze. It aims at establishing properties of a tool for indexing documents related to the field of digital poetry. It is build in three stages.
In a first stage, we build a normalised graphical representation of the Spinoza’s model. We show that this philosophical model can easily be schematised in a combination between a relation/entity model and an set representation with internal graphical lows. These graphics are normalised because each part of them has a unique and constant significant. So, such graphics can be used to make graphical treatment of information in relationship with databases.
Figure 1 : schema of an individual
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 15:29
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Electronic Literature Without a Map
The paper discusses several problems that seem to define and determine the field of electronic literature in theory and practice and suggests several strategies to remedy the situation in the spirit that is both analytical and polemical.
Electronic literature has been around at least for 50 years and many of its typical ergodic ingredients share a cultural (pre)history that reaches back to classical antiquity and beyond (I Ching). Still, the cultural, economical, educational and even literary status and visibility of electronic literature is low and obscure at best despite occasional canonisations of hypertext fiction and poetry (the works of Michael Joyce and Jim Rosenberg), literary groups such as the OuLiPo that from very early on extended their orientation beyond print literature, and the efforts of an international or semi-international organisation (ELO) to promote and preserve electronic literature - not to mention multiple and more or less influential and comprehensive theories of electronic and ergodic literature.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 16:03
