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1. Novissima verba: huellas digitales / electrónicas / cibernéticas en la poesía latinoamericana

   Luis Correa-Díaz se pregunta en esta serie de ensayos si la literatura electrónica está o no hoy por alcanzar esa velocidad de escape de la fuerza gravitacional de la literatura tradicional. ¿Cómo se negocia en esta época el valor literario, el estatus de lo escrito, la desaparición o permanencia del libro en esta etapa de transición y adaptación literaria?
   Pareciera haber en español una escasez de discursos críticos e iniciativas de estudio que den cuenta de estas significativas mutaciones culturales. De allí la especial importancia de este libro que se presenta de referencia obligada, especialmente para los estudios de obras iberoamericanas, en los que se centra esta publicación.

   (Source: Belén Gache, Publisher's website)

   Alvaro Seica - 25.08.2020 - 10:58

2. Living Pages

   Imagine your body literally immersed in a book. The letters of the alphabet, the punctuation marks have escaped the limits of the page. They seem to have an autonomous life, forming clouds all around you. Reacting to your amazed gaze, the letters find their order to form a sentence. You turn around, abstract shapes float: we don't know if they are images or objects. An omniscient voice is speaking to you. Everything gravitates with joy. Above, lines of code scroll like rain curtains: you are immersed in LIVING PAGES. LIVING PAGES is an original poem that is expressed at the same time as it is contemplated. It is a work of virtual reality based on unconscious interactivity. It is a new form that materializes, in real time, the mental images generated by the user and conveyed by words.

   Sebastian Soleng Borge - 02.09.2020 - 11:39

3. Valerie LeBlanc

   Valerie LeBlanc

   Odd Adrian Mikkelsen Prestegård - 04.09.2020 - 15:55

4. Prism Portraits

   Prism Portraits is a participatory social media archive that challenges the audience to critically re-examine digital photo filters and their effects on our (self-)perception. The project comprises three components: participants’ smartphone cameras, a dedicated hashtag (#prismportraits) and a set of instructions for participants.

   The instructions will ask participants to take a selfie, select a hue-based filter (either from their preferred social media platform or a photo-editing software), and share the picture on Instagram using #prismportraits. Participants will also be asked to include a rationale explaining their filter choice, answering a set of questions such as: how does this filter change the way your self-perception in this photo? Seeing yourself in this manner, what emotions and thoughts do you experience? Audience members can search the hashtag to view the other Prism Portraits, and are encouraged to express their reactions to the portraits in the comments.

   Åse Marie Våge Beheim - 04.09.2020 - 20:52

5. The Posthuman

   This book offers an original and accessible introduction to the contemporary debates on the notion of the posthuman. It develops two lines of argument. First, contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all forms of life. 'Second Life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This high degree of bio-technological development results in hybridization, erasing categorical distinctions between the human and other species, seeds, plants, animals and machines. The dislocations produced by posthuman cultures therefore make possible a critique of anthropocentrism. Post-anthropocentric politics, as exemplified by environmentalism, encompass not only other species but also the sustainability of our planet as a whole.

   Hannah Ackermans - 08.09.2020 - 12:04

6. Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

   A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.

   New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things—mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates “programmed visions,” which seek to shape and predict—even embody—a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability.

   Hannah Ackermans - 10.09.2020 - 10:35

7. Early Electronic Literature in the Romantic Tradition

   In searching for literary models for digital writing, current scholarship will often suggest James Joyce, yet pioneering writers working directly indigital forms looked repeatedly instead to British Romantic authors. This dissertation examines the early history of electronic literature, showing the significance of a Romantic tradition with which a selection of digital authors self-consciously identified themselves and their goals. Electronic literature is an emerging genre of literary works which are designed to be read on a computer, and by focusing on the pre-Web 2.0 era, my project looks specifically to the largely text-based sub-genres of interactive fiction and hypertext fiction, non-linear works which respectively enable progression through text inputs from users or clicking hyperlinks. Though many major scholars of digital humanities are Romanticists by training, the critical history of electronic literature focuses heavily on the genre’s modernist and postmodernist contexts.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.09.2020 - 15:15

8. Beneath the Surface: Waterways, Circulation and Glimmers of Place

   Excerpt:

   Canal Echoes. Courtesy of the Author

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   Canal boats slide by… I hear the voices echoing, chatter, the sound of bikes, familiar. I grew up on these bodies of water – the brown water is still – the boats leave a slight ripple behind. After a few hot summer days – there is a pungent smell. Hints of decay. 

   Water is part of city life here. Pleasure boats. Legs dangling on the side of canals. Glasses clinking. Charm. Lovers walk alongside the canals. Transported by the scenic waterways into a place of innocence. Once in a while old rusty bikes get dredged out of the water.

    At night, the lights on the bridges come on and reflect a golden shimmer on the still water. I keep waiting for the ripple in the canal to move faster, to crash harder, but it remains so quiet, so still. Just a mild stir. Something so unsettling about how quiet these canals are, I find. 

   Maud Ceuterick - 15.09.2020 - 21:55

9. Digital Literary Arts - Scandinavian E-Texts: Criticism, Theory, and Practice

   Electronic literature (e-lit) constitutes one of the most innovative and exciting literary forms occurring today; it is the unique child of this new technological age. Scandinavian e-lit is no exception, yet it has frequently been overlooked by literary academics in both the United States and Scandinavia. This dissertation investigates how Scandinavian e-lit engages with printed Scandinavian literature, and how critical analysis of Scandinavian literature can benefit from an understanding of e-lit. In this dissertation I argue that, far from relegation to the outer margins of Scandinavian literary research and studies, Scandinavian e-lit, and scholarship on such works, ought to occupy a central position in the field, alongside print-based counterparts. Such a shift in focus would create a new vantage point from which Scandinavianists could analyze canonical and contemporary works of print-based Scandinavian literature.

   Anika Carlotta Stoll - 16.09.2020 - 10:50

10. Experimental Poetics of the Asian Diaspora: Readings in Meatspace and Cyberspace

    Since the 1980s, experimental poets of Asian descent writing in English around the world have created works informed by both their experiences of being in the Asian diaspora and their subjectivities in the age of advancing computing technologies. Studies of these works have been scarce and few have put them all together in order to make an argument about how to read them in connection with each other. The aim of this dissertation is to make a case for what I call the diasporic reading framework, and to argue that this way of reading fills in crucial gaps in our understandings of experimental Asian poetry.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.09.2020 - 10:58

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