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1. Weapons Of The Deconstructive Masses: Whatever the Electronic in Electronic Literature may or may not mean

   This piece is an attempt to hasten the death of the 'electronic' in 'electronic literature' — to re-cognize it as a dead metaphor — as the prelude to an agonistic meditation on my generation's anticipation of the death of literature itself, with 'the literary,' potentially, waiting in the wings (and published elsewhere, elsewhen, elsehow).

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   Respondents at 2008 ELO Conference

   Joe Tabbi
   University of Illinois Chicago, USA 

   Scott Rettberg
   University of Bergen, Norway 

   Stuart Moulthrop
   University of Baltimore, USA

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 21:00

2. Electronic Literature as an Information System

   Electronic literature is a term that encompasses artistic texts produced for printed media which are consumed in electronic format, as well as text produced for electronic media that could not be printed without losing essential qualities. Some have argued that the essence of electronic literature is the use of multimedia, fragmentation, and/or non-linearity. Others focus on the role of computation and complex processing. "Cybertext" does not sufficiently describe these systems. In this paper we propose that works of electronic literature, understood as text (with possible inclusion of multimedia elements) designed to be consumed in bi- or multi-directional electronic media, are best understood as 3-tier (or n-tier) information systems. These tiers include data (the textual content), process (computational interactions) and presentation (on-screen rendering of the narrative). The interaction between these layers produces what is known as the work of electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 21:30