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1. Potentialities of Literary Cybertext

   The application of cybertextual technologies to experimental poetics is the context for this brief exposition of my machine modulated literary work. I invoke theoretical issues of cybertext but these are not extensively explored. Instead, I raise issues crucial to the work described here — the role of (literary) text in cyberspace; silent reading in new visible language media; the confusions of computer as medium; the limitations of link-node hypertext; the shifting relationships between writer, reader and programmer; multi- and non-linear poetics; and the engagement of contemporary poetics with cybertext. The major part of the exposition then focuses on the work itself and certain of its future potentialities, with occasional reference to the more general, theoretical concerns.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 30.01.2015 - 16:44

2. Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext

   First written and published in 1996, the unrevised form of this essay now comes across, in
   certain respects, as ancient history – a function of the notorious acceleration of cultural and
   media development since the explosive growth of the Web after 1994. And yet, it chiefly
   describes a productive engagement with writing in programmable and, latterly, networked
   media which dates back, in my own case, to the late 1970s, an all-too-human, rather than
   silicon-enhanced, historical context.

   (Source: Author's Introduction)

   Alvaro Seica - 04.02.2015 - 17:50

3. Silicon Poetics: The Computer as Author and Artifice

   This thesis explores how various computer programs
   construct poems and addresses the way several critics
   respond to these computer generated texts. Surprisingly,
   little attention has heretofore been paid to these programs.
   Critics who have given the matter attention usually focus on
   only one of the myriad programs available, and more often
   than not, such scholarship concludes with a disparagement of
   all such projects. My work reexamines computer generated
   poetry on a larger scale than previously exists, positing
   some conclusions about how these texts affect contemporary
   theories of authorship and poetic meaning.
   My first chapter explicates the historical debate over the
   use and limits of technology in the generation of text,
   studying similitudes between certain artistic movements and
   computer poetry. This historical background reveals that
   the concept of mechanically generated text is nothing new.
   My second chapter delineates how the two main families of
   computer poetry programs actually create these texts.
   Computer programs combine existing input text, aleatory
   

   Johannah Rodgers - 30.10.2015 - 16:48

4. Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art

   Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art

   Pål Alvsaker - 12.09.2017 - 15:09

5. Critical Ecologies

   The original editors of Critical Ecologies, Joseph Tabbi and Cary Wolfe, constructed this green and grey thread “to explore convergences among natural and constructed ecosystems, green politics and grey matter, silicon chips and sand.” Texts from this period include a 2004 Joseph McElroy Festschrift that hints at the literary implications of an ecological, medial turn in literary theory. The Critical Ecologies thread will continue these explorations under the editorship of Stacy Alaimo, who encourages inquiry and debate on new materialisms, animal studies, posthumanism, and science studies.

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   Malene Fonnes - 25.09.2017 - 15:16

6. Wild Ambitions

   David Cassuto reviews Wild Ideas, a collection of ecocritical essays.

   I want to like Wild Ideas. And I do like large segments of it. Compiled and edited by David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, this collection of essays arose from a symposium on the “wild” and “wilderness” at the fifth World Wilderness Congress in 1993. It takes on several of the major bugaboos of the environmental movement, among them the difference between “wildness” as Thoreau uses the term in his famously misquoted adage, “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” and “wilderness,” a term whose meaning has changed more often than Boris Yeltsin’s Cabinet.

   tye042 - 26.09.2017 - 12:20

7. Writing the Paradigm

   An overview of Gregory Ulmer’s thought by Victor Vitanza.

   1. How do we not know we think, yet think?

   Gregory Ulmer (a.k.a. ‘Glue’) has been for some time developing a theory of invention that would be appropriate and productive for those cultural theorists who have an interest in electronic media. (Invention, classically defined in oral and print culture, is the art of recalling and discovering what it is that one would think or say about a given subject. In electronic culture, invention takes on new ramifications). In his Applied Grammatology (1985), Ulmer moves from Derridean deconstruction (a mode of analysis that concentrates on inventive reading) to grammatology (a mode of composition that concentrates on inventive writing); that is, he moves towards exploring “the nondiscursive levels - images and puns, or models and homophones - as an alternative mode of composition and thought applicable to academic work, or rather, play.

   tye042 - 26.09.2017 - 13:01

8. The Revolution May Not Be Computerized

   The Revolution May Not Be Computerized

   tye042 - 26.09.2017 - 14:41

9. Stanley Fish and the Place of Criticism

   Christopher Knight on Stanley Fish’s Professional Correctness.

   In Representations of the Intellectual (New York, 1994), Edward Said writes,

   The particular threat to the intellectual today, whether in the West or the non-Western world, is not the academy, nor the suburbs, nor the appalling commercialism of journalism and publishing houses, but rather an attitude that I will call professionalism. By professional I mean thinking of your own work as an intellectual as something you do for a living, between the hours of nine and five with one ear cocked at what is considered to be proper, professional behavior - not rocking the boat, not straying outside the accepted paradigms or limits, making yourself marketable and above all presentable, hence uncontroversial and unpolitical and “objective.” 

   tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 11:25

10. Cyborg Anthropology

    Matthew Fuller on The Cyborg Handbook.

    The Cyborg Handbook tells the story of how one particular model, or one cluster of models grouped under the term cyborg (cybernetic organism), has come to occupy a key place as a meaning-making apparatus that either actually or rhetorically involves such disparate areas as: the invention of new emotions; self-directed evolution; combat and medical augmentation; the prediction, monitoring, and control of body movement; farming; automatism; remote or prosthetic operations; reproductive technology. Culling material from a wide variety of academic sources, The Cyborg Handbook follows the lead of Donna Haraway, who adds an image-rich foreword to the book, in putting cyborgs on the map of cultural criticism.

    tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 11:38

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