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On Byways and Backlanes: The Philosophy of Free Culture
We see before us a turning in free culture. This turning, lies between the claims of the ordinary against those of the extraordinary, and suggests that we need to carefully examine our current situation. The ordinary highlights the fact that even in the beginnings of free culture there existed its middle and its end, that its past invaded its present, and even the most extreme attention to the present is invaded by a concern for the future. Whereas the extraordinary highlights the possibility of thinking that brings us out of this life-world and instead opens out and unfolds the way in which we might reveal a different world. This world could be said to be both within capitalism and between capitalisms. Here we might think about the transformation of the economic base from an industrial fordist form of capitalism, to an economy founded on the valorisation of information and code, a postfordist capitalism. Free culture, then, could be said to lie in the interstices, and in so doing could be a rare chance to help to point the way from the lived to the desired.
David M. Berry - 21.09.2010 - 11:22
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Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky
Because so little primary historical work has been done on the classic text computer game "Colossal Cave Adventure", academic and popular references to it frequently perpetuate inaccuracies. "Adventure" was the first in a series of text-based games ("interactive fiction") that emphasize exploring, puzzles, and story, typically in a fantasy setting; these games had a significant cultural impact in the late 1970s and a significant commercial presence in the early 1980s. Will Crowther based his program on a real cave in Kentucky; Don Woods expanded this version significantly. The expanded work has been examined as an occasion for narrative encounters [Buckles 1985] and as an aesthetic masterpiece of logic and utility [Knuth 1998]; however, previous attempts to assess the significance of "Adventure" remain incomplete without access to Crowther's original source code and Crowther's original source cave. Accordingly, this paper analyzes previously unpublished files recovered from a backup of Woods's student account at Stanford, and documents an excursion to the real Colossal Cave in Kentucky in 2005.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:39
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Om Monica Aasprongs Soldatmarkedet
A discussion of Monica Aasprong's series of works titled Soldatmarkedet, offering comparisons, descriptions of the various instantiations of Soldatmarkedet, and interpretations.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.02.2011 - 21:50
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Dovetailing Details Fly Apart — All Over, Again, in Code, in Poetry, in Chreods
"Dovetailing Details Fly Apart - All Over, Again, In Code, In Poetry, In Chreods" by Strickland and Lawson Jaramillo carries the debate into the analysis of specific poems and poetic practices, both written and spoken, graphic and sonic, alphabetically and digitally coded. The essay also introduces a new reference for the debate - namely, the work of Gregory Bateson, who is cited not just as a supporting 'theory' or philosphical framework, but in the spirit of differential discourse that distinguishes Bateson's work.
(Source: introduction at electronic book review)
Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 22:59
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Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno's Iterature
Søren Pold explores the ways in which Christophe Bruno's Iterature expands the notion of literary form and shows what happens when words are no longer only part of a language.
(Source: ebr)Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.03.2011 - 15:42
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Intermediation: The Pursuit of a Vision
Twenty-first century literature is computational, from electronic works to print books created as digital files and printed by digital presses. To create an appropriate theoretical framework, the concept of intermediation is proposed, in which recursive feedback loops join human and digital cognizers to create emergent complexity. To illustrate, Michael Joyce's afternoon is compared and contrasted with his later Web work, Twelve Blue. Whereas afternoon has an aesthetic and interface that recall print practices, Twelve Blue takes its inspiration from the fluid exchanges of the Web. Twelve Blue instantiates intermediation by creating coherence not through linear sequences but by recursively cycling between associated images. Intermediation is further explored through Maria Mencia's digital art work and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter and its successor piece, The Error Engine, by Morrissey, Lori Talley, and Lutz Hamel.
(Source: Project MUSE abstract)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 10:27
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Letters That Matter: Electronic Literature Collection Vol 1
John Zuern considers the significance of the first volume of ELO's Electronic Literature Collection for the future of electronic arts.
(Source: ebr)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 22:30
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Six Problems in Search of a Solution: The Challenge of Cybertext Theory and Ludology to Literary Theory
Six Problems in Search of a Solution: The Challenge of Cybertext Theory and Ludology to Literary Theory
Jörgen Schäfer - 30.06.2011 - 16:07
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Reading the Code between the Words: The Role of Translation in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’s Nippon
Reading the Code between the Words: The Role of Translation in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’s Nippon
Meri Alexandra Raita - 02.10.2011 - 22:17
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Aesthetics and Literature: A Problematic Relation?
The paper argues that there is a proper for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying just what the relation is. In characterising aestehtic pleasure associating with literature it is all too easy to fall into reductive accounts, for example, of literature of merely "fine writing". Bellelettrist or formalistic accounts of literature are rejected, as are to other kinds of reduction, to pure meaning properties and to a kind of narrative realism. The idea is developed that literature - both poetry and prose fiction - invites its own distinctive kind of aesthetic appreciation which far from being at odds with critical practice, in fact chimes well with it.
Kristina Gulvik Nilsen - 18.10.2011 - 14:05
