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Memory and Motion: The Body in Electronic Writing
Maria Angel and Anna Gibbs explore the new materialism of the corporeal body in electronic writing and online environments. They argue that electronic environments have a strong relationship with affective modes of communication highlighted by their appeal to sensory novelty through technological innovation—new media platforms proliferate the potentials for combining visibility with aural and tactile modes. Their essay argues for a new materialism in electronic culture, one that has serious implications for the way that we understand memory.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 11:17
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Why Digital Literature Has Always Been “Beyond the Screen”
Andrew Michael Roberts demonstrates that digital literature has always been beyond the screen. In many of the practices and framing ideas of electronic literature, he identifies recurrences of key conceptions of modernism and postmodernism such as literalization, enactment, difference, movement, etc. Nonetheless, as he argues, literature is embracing new forms of expression influenced by the evolving mediatechnological possibilities and the increased involvement of the recipient’s whole body.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 13:02
