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Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic Literature
N. Katherine Hayles's keynote address for the 2002 State of the Arts Symposium at UCLA. Hayles identifies two generations of electronic literature: mainly text-based works produces in Storyspace and Hypercard until about 1995-1997, and second-generation works, mainly authored in Director, Flash, Shockwave and XML in years after that. She identifies second-generation works as "fully multimedia" and notes a move "deeper into the machine." She then reads a number of second-generation works in the context of their computational specificity.
Publication note: Also published online in Culture Machine Vol. 5 (2003)
Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 12:38
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Locating the Literary in New Media
Locating the Literary in New Media
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.06.2011 - 09:14
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Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental
Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.07.2011 - 10:53
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A Máquina Viral Universal - Bits, Parasitas e Ecologia de Mídia na Cultura de Redes
A Máquina Viral Universal - Bits, Parasitas e Ecologia de Mídia na Cultura de Redes
Luciana Gattass - 18.10.2012 - 12:50
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Digital Poetry Beyond Avant-Garde Readings: Proposing a Digital Lyric
Most often when critics try to demonstrate the "literariness" of digital poetry, the theory they rely upon derives from the avant-garde practices of the twentieth century. To expand this dialogue with literary traditions, this paper explores the possibility of a digital lyric. Through a textual analysis of selected digital poems, the lyric genre is reconsidered to meet the needs of digital writing in two ways. First, by drawing on key works from posthuman studies (Hayles; Haraway; Turkle) the lyric subject is re-envisioned beyond the limiting (and often assumed) Romantic-era definitions. Second, by revising the lyric subject with concepts from digital studies, a dialogue opens up with other generic traditions of the lyric: notions of brevity, emotional functions of the utterance, and even musical language. As well, the function of the lyric as a communal, performative gesture becomes an especially suitable poetic convention for the digital realm.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 17:10
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The Gothic in Contemporary Interactive Fictions
This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. Gentry (1998), Madam Spider’s Web, by Sara Dee (2006) and Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto (2003). The interactive fictions are examined using a media-specific, in-depth analytical approach.
Scott Rettberg - 23.01.2013 - 23:37
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Materiality Has Always Been In Play
Materiality Has Always Been In Play
Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 12:43
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.
Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."
Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 23:21
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"Jailbreaking the Global Mnemotechnical System: Electropoetics as Resistance"
This paper will explore subversive practices of electronic literature as contexts for the experience of agency within various systems of control. Through close readings of covert communication practices in prison narratives alongside the works like Rob Wittig’s Netprovs, Richard Holeton’s slideshow narratives, Nick Montfort’s !#, and Darius Kazemi’s “Tiny Subversions,” this essay will consider poetic interventions against media culture, professionalization, and cybernetic systems in relation to the codes, mnemonic devices, and flights of fancy used by political prisoners and POWs to maintain identity against isolation, torture, and manipulation. In particular, this paper will touch down on the question of “the ends of electronic literature” by exploring the interrelational aspect of writing as a process that is primarily concerned with the creator imagining an other (an “author” reaching out to a “reader,” in the conventional literary sense) and the user finding meaning in the text (the reader having an encounter with the work of literature).
Xiana Sotelo Garcia - 04.08.2015 - 12:19
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Review of Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
Beginning his review by reflecting on the book’s cover art, John Bruni speculates that a punk aesthetic runs throughout Alaimo’s posthuman environmentalism. Providing brief treatments of each chapter, he argues that the book’s trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between bodies and places disrupts “the very heart of what we know about ourselves.”
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/punk)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:47
