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  1. The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature

    According to the French author and theoretician Jean-Pierre Balpe, “all digital art works are first conceived outside the framework of a pragmatic relation to materiality. Any manifestation of digital art is but a simulated moment of an absent matter.”

    However, I wish to show that there is at least as much materiality in the digital media as in other media. Of course, as a formal description, digital and material can be distinguished. Digital media correspond to formalization, insofar as formalization is understood as the modelling of a given reality through the use of a formal code. But because digital media refers to the effectiveness of digital calculation, it can be considered as “material”, at least on two levels:

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 15:39

  2. Editorial [on Regards Croisés: Perspectives on Digital Literature]

    Editorial [on Regards Croisés: Perspectives on Digital Literature]

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.03.2011 - 12:15

  3. The Four Corners of the E-lit world. Textual Instruments, Operational Logics, Wetware Studies and Cybertext Poetics

    The Four Corners of the E-lit world. Textual Instruments, Operational Logics, Wetware Studies and Cybertext Poetics

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 12:45

  4. Writing the Virtual: Eleven Dimensions of E-Poetry

    Eleven characteristics of networked digital poetry, a category that encompasses an enormous variety of work, are discussed and illustrated with examples. Issues raised include the recalibration of the writing/reading relationship, the nature of attachment at the site of interaction, an architectonic quality of instrument-building that characterizes many pieces, differing treatments of time and “place”, the use of recombinant flux, a performative character displayed by many works, the omnipresence of both translation and looping, as well as pervasive references to ruin and hybrid states of mixed reality.

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    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.02.2012 - 10:45

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