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1. Writing Machines

   Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 20:34

2. "Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson

   "Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:09

3. Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework

   Codework refers to the use of the contemporary idiolect of the computer and computing processes in digital media experimental writing, or [net.writing]. Some of the prominent practitioners include Alan Sondheim, who has given the practice and genre its name, Mez (Mary-Anne Breeze), Talan Memmott, Ted Warnell, Brian Lennon, and John Cayley. These writers also use different terms to refer to work: Mez composes in a neologistic "net.wurked" language that she has termed m[ez]ang.elle; Memmott uses the term "rich.lit"; Warnell names some of his JavaScript poems "codepoetry"; Lennon refers to "digital visual poetics"; and Cayley produces algorithmic, generative texts, or "programmable poetry." Writers and artists who have taken up the general practice of codework heed the mandate - "use the computer; it is not a television" - and strive to foreground and theorize the relations between interface and machine and so reflect on the networked environment that constitutes and is constituted by a digital text. The precise techniques vary, but the general result is a text-object or a text-event that emphasizes its own programming, mechanism, and materiality.

   Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:09

4. The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

   An essay considering the nature of "codework" and arguing against the collapse of "code" and "text" into one category. Cayley considers the different modes of reading involved in reading works that may be read both as computational artifacts and as works of literature.

   Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:14

5. Cognitive Fictions

   The first comprehensive look at the effect of new technologies on contemporary American fiction. Bringing together cognitive science and literary analysis to map a new "media ecology," Cognitive Fictions limns an evolutionary process in which literature must find its place in an artificial environment partly produced and thoroughly mediated by technological means. Joseph Tabbi provides a penetrating account of a developing consciousness emerging from the struggle between print and electronic systems of communication. Central to Tabbi's work is the relation between the arrangement of communicating "modules" that cognitive science uses to describe the human mind and the arrangement of visual, verbal, and aural media in our technological culture. He looks at particular literary works by Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers, David Markson, Lynne Tillman, Paul Auster, and others as both inscriptions of thought consistent with distributed cognitive models, and as self-creations out of the media environment.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.06.2011 - 13:25

6. Literatur auf dem Rechner

   Die Diskussion über computergestützte Literatur verliert sich überwiegend in den Extremen euphorischer Reaktionen und dogmatischer Ablehnung. Bei genauerer Betrachtung erschließt sich jedoch ein weites und differenziertes Feld der Unterschiede und Ähnlichkeiten »buchförmiger« und »elektronischer« Literatur. Gegenstand der Arbeit sind nicht allein »Internetliteratur« und CD-ROM sondern auch die interaktiven literarischen Formen wie Textadventures und Chatterbots. Für die Entfaltung und Strukturierung dieses Feldes werden anhand der (informatischen) Grundfunktionen des Speicherns, Übertragens und Prozessierens von Zeichenketten die (literaturwissenschaftlichen) Grundlagen hinsichtlich der Medientechnik, formalen Beschreibung und theoretischen Ansätze gelegt.

   Jörgen Schäfer - 28.06.2011 - 14:12

7. Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz

   Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im Netz

   Jörgen Schäfer - 28.06.2011 - 16:15

8. "Distance, Homelessness, Anonymity, and Insignificance": An Interview with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

   In this interview with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries by Thomas Swiss the duo describes artistic and cultural influences, and discusses web writing.  

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.09.2011 - 13:23

9. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics

   In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is uniquely well qualified to explore this stimulating topic. The essays comprise what Joyce calls "theoretical narratives," woven from e-mail messages, hypertext "nodes," and other kinds of electronic text that move nomadically from one occasion or perspective to another, between the poles of art and instruction , teaching and writing. The nomadic movement of ideas is made effortless by the electronic medium, which makes it easy to cross borders (or erase them) with the swipe of a mouse, and which therefore challenges our notions of intellectual and artistic borders.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 22:59

10. Writing with Images: Toward a Semiotics of the Web

    Writing with Images: Toward a Semiotics of the Web

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 23.10.2011 - 10:44

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