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1. Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry as Ontological Probe

   This thesis is about the poetic edge of language and technology. It inter-relates both computational creation and poetic reception by analysing typographic animation softwares and meditating (speculatively) on a future malleable language that possesses the quality of being (and is implicitly perceived as) alive. As such it is a composite document: a philosophical and practice-based exploration of how computers are transforming literature, an ontological meditation on life and language, and a contribution to software studies. Digital poetry introduces animation, dimensionality and metadata into literary discourse. This necessitates new terminology; an acronym for Textual Audio-Visual Interactivity is proposed: Tavit. Tavits (malleable digital text) are tactile and responsive in ways that emulate living entities. They can possess dimensionality, memory, flocking, kinematics, surface reflectivity, collision detection, and responsiveness to touch, etc…. Life-like tactile tavits involve information that is not only semantic or syntactic, but also audible, imagistic and interactive.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 16.03.2012 - 16:49

2. Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound

   In Reading Writing Interfaces, Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson’s self-bound fascicle volumes—mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.

   Table of Contents:

   Introduction

   Chapter 1: Indistinguishable From Magic | Invisible Interfaces and Digital Literature as Demystifier

   Chapter 2: From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly

   Chapter 3: Typewriter Concrete Poetry and Activist Media Poetics

   Chapter 4: The Fascicle as Process and Product

   Chapter 5: Postscript | The Googlization of Literature

   Works Cited

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.05.2014 - 02:11