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1. Read Fast, Die Young? – Interpreting Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries’ Flash Poem Dakota

   In this paper I discuss Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries’ digital poem Dakota. I discuss how the poem controls the reader’s experience and how this control affects its possible interpretations. The control is mostly executed by limiting the reader’s freedom over reading. Reading time, direction and duration are determined by the poem. It is only possible to start the poem, but not rewind, stop or fast-forward it. Furthermore, the manipulation of speed affects reading in many ways. In the fast extreme the effect is illegibility, but more subtly used speed creates varieties of emphasis and de-emphasis. The effect of emphasis of this kind, I argue, creates different layers of readings and invites re-reading. These different readings require different cognitive modes, which mirror our contemporary reading habits. Not being in control of the reading process also leads to a scattered sense of unity, one of postmodernism’s essential traits. While reading the poem I also question why I read as I do, and by doing so I hope to present more general traits of how to approach digital literature.

   Arngeir Enåsen - 14.10.2013 - 15:20

2. Translating E-poetry: Still Avant-Garde

   The American poetry critic Marjorie Perloff undertook the task of rendering a solid theoretical framework to understand the evolution of the art of poetry after Modernism. Furthermore, she traced the evolution of “Postmodern” poetry, analyzing the most radical experiments including the digital poetry of the present. Based on Perloff’s perspective, this paper will observe the evolution of translation as part of the poetics of the American poet Ezra Pound and Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos. Following its transformation as a writing strategy, they understood translation as a process adjacent to poetry, though the incorporation of translation as part of their own work would be observed as unethical for many critics. Therefore, Haroldo de Campos coined the term “Transcreation” in order to refer his translations as an original work. Interestingly enough, the paradigm for this sort of writing is the Irish writer James Joyce, whose controversial piece Finnegans Wake introduced not only linguistic but also metaphorical and historical translation.

   Hannah Ackermans - 16.11.2015 - 10:46

3. The Uses of Postmodernism

   Jacob Edmond argues that while postmodernism might be useless as a theoretical concept or periodization, it nevertheless illuminates changes, both local and global, in the final decades of the twentieth century. Edmond analyzes the uses of postmodernism in the United States, New Zealand, Russia, and China. He shows how the various and even contradictory uses of the term postmodernism allowed it to represent both sides in the unfolding tension between globalization and localism in late twentieth-century culture.

   (source: ebr)

   Juan Manuel Altadill Casas - 27.09.2017 - 18:05

4. Black Postmodernism

   Amy J. Elias reviews Madhu Dubey’s second book Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism and gauges the argument that we can locate within literary history a distinctive African American strain of postmodernism.

   Ana Castello - 06.12.2017 - 20:27

5. Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy

   In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how “free” such labor has proved in practice.

   (Source: EBR)

   Filip Falk - 15.12.2017 - 17:39

6. Postmodern, Posthuman, Post-Digital

   There is also another chapter on the posthumanism in the collection: Glitch Poetics: The Posthumanities of Error by Nathan Jones.

   Anna Nacher - 27.04.2018 - 14:50

7. Introduction (What (in the World) Was Postmodernism)

   Introduction (What (in the World) Was Postmodernism)

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 17.09.2019 - 14:41

8. The Historical Status of Postmodernism under Neoliberalism

   The Historical Status of Postmodernism under Neoliberalism

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 17.09.2019 - 15:30

9. I Read Because It is Absurd

   I Read Because It is Absurd

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 17.09.2019 - 15:34