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1. Abandoning Canon: Fluid Texts and Implicit Collaboration in Electronic Narratives

   Digital technology enables artists - photographers, musicians, writers, filmmakers, illustrators,
   animators, etc. - to place their work not in a strictly definable where, but effectively everywhere
   (everywhere, that is, where infrastructure and access are available). Where once the lines between
   author, text, and reader could be drawn with linear vectors, digital technology and their increasing
   availability and accessibility bring author, text, and reader into a potentially endless cycle of narrative, creation, wherein the roles are fluid and the text may never be fixed. Because of this capability, Astrid Ensslin argues that the idea of literary canon must depart from "its traditional self-contained, closed, and rigidly exclusive connotations. Instead, an inclusive, open concept has to be adopted, which works in terms of a continuous process of integration, modification and discharge" (2006, n.p).

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.06.2012 - 13:53

2. Electronic Literature as a Means to Overcome the Supremacy of the Author Function

   In his seminal essay “What Is an Author?” Michel Foucault maintains that we can only accept literary discourses if they carry an author’s name. Every text of poetry or fiction is obliged to state its author, and if, by accident or design, the text is presented anonymously, we can only accept this as a puzzle to be solved, or, one could add, as an exceptional experiment about authorship that is verifying the rule. This was in 1969. In the meantime, a profound change of all forms of social interaction has been taking place. Amongst them are works of electronic literature that use the computer in an aesthetic way to create combinatory, interactive, intermedial and performative art. One could argue, of course, that electronic literature as new media art often only is a proof of a concept addressed to the few tech-savvy select. However, these purportedly avant-garde pieces break the ground for developments that might happen barely noticed, and by this serve an important political, ideological, aesthetic and commercial purpose. Amongst these developments is a change of the seemingly irrevocable rule of the author in literary discourses.

   Hannah Ackermans - 16.11.2015 - 10:07

3. From eLit to pLit: Benefits and Limitations of a Model for the Visualization and Analysis of Collaborative Writing in Electronic and Printed Literature

   From eLit to pLit: Benefits and Limitations of a Model for the Visualization and Analysis of Collaborative Writing in Electronic and Printed Literature

   Heiko Zimmermann - 13.06.2016 - 07:29

4. What Is an @uthor?

   What Is an @uthor?

   Zachary Mann - 07.06.2017 - 20:38

5. A 2020 Computer-Generated Text as a Posthuman Mode of Literature Production

   A central idea of posthumanism in a technological society is the actual transition of the human towards a post-human entity, the cyborg. This entanglement between humanity and technology can not only be found in – actual and fictional – cyborgs, but also in computer-generated textproduction. Through the close collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence, algorithmically facilitated writing is emerging as anart form that is proving promising for literary analysis in a posthuman context. This article will examine computer-generated fiction as a new,posthuman mode of text production and use poststructuralist and related theory – mainly Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag – toexplore the implications that such forms hold for the roles of authors, readers, and that of literary critics and scholars.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.05.2022 - 21:21