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1. Mapping the Convergence of Networked Digital Literature and Net Art onto the Modes of Production

   In this paper I argue that the restrictions imposed by technological barriers within select forms of digital literature and net art are cause for the success of these works from the early internet to the present—the technological restrictions themselves guided their formulation. Arguably, the
   constraints create the aesthetic context in which the works thrive, while the artist figure
   transforms into mechanical producer.
   

   Magnus Lindstrøm - 17.02.2015 - 15:53

2. Posthumanism and Electronic Literature

   Posthumanism, according to Cary Wolfe, "names a historical moment in which the decentering of the human by its imbrication in technical, medical, informatic, and economic networks is increasingly impossible to ignore" (xv-xvi). This conference paper brings the framework of posthumanist philosophy to bear on the field of electronic literature, at a critical moment in time wherein our conception of the human, and of literature, are fundamentally questioned through digital technology. I argue that humanist philosophy is explicitly tied to the rise of print literature, via Elizabeth Eisenstein (1979), while posthumanism is linked with digital media (Wolfe 2010) and, by extension, electronic literature. Furthermore, posthumanism interrogates assumptions of autonomy and subjectivity inherited from humanism, and via cybernetics articulates an image of the human as another information-processing machine. Electronic literature's reliance and amalgamation of natural and artificial languages (most noticeable in “codework”) reflects the posthumanist critique of the supposed binaries between human and machine.

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 17.02.2015 - 16:02

3. The tensions of digital literature

   Les tensions de la littérature numérique

   La littérature numérique repose sur des tensions qui contribuent à asseoir sa spécificité : tension des supports, de l’écriture programmée, des médias, de l’expérience esthétique. Le terme tension ne signifie pas forcément conflit, mais suggère qu’il y a des évidences déconstruites des deux côtés. Ce peut être une tension créatrice.

   - Tension des supports
   La LN met en tension des formes culturelles, littéraires et artistiques héritées de l’imprimé et des formes nées avec le numérique. La tension des supports ne concerne pas seulement la tension entre support numérique et support imprimé, mais également la tension entre les différents supports de restitution (pouvant correspondre par exemple à tout un dispositif de monstration dans le cadre d’une installation ou d’une performance).

   Daniela Ørvik - 19.02.2015 - 14:23