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1. A Clash between Game and Narrative

   In this paper presentation I'll be making a simple point. That computer games and narratives are very different phenomena and, as a consequence, any combination of the two, like in "interactive fiction", or "interactive storytelling" faces enormous problems.
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   Introduction

   Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 13:08

2. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace

   Murray discusses the unique properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative. She analyzes the dramatic satisfaction of participatory stories and considers what would be necessary to move interactive fiction from the formats of childish games and confusing labyrinths into a mature and compelling art form.

   (Source: Publisher's description)

   Published in paperback by the MIT Press, 1998.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:17

3. A poetics

   This rich collection is far more than an important work of criticism by an extraordinary poet; it is a poetic intervention into criticism. "Artifice of Absorption," a key essay, is written in verse, and its structures and rhythms initiate the reader into the strength and complexity of the argument. In a wild variety of topics, polemic, and styles, Bernstein surveys the current poetry scene and addresses many of the hot issues of poststructuralist literary theory. "Poetics is the continuation of poetry by other means," he writes. What role should poetics play in contemporary culture? Bernstein finds the answer in dissent, not merely in argument but in form--a poetic language that resists being easily absorbed into the conventions of our culture.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:02

4. Bookend; www.claptrap.com

   Bookend; www.claptrap.com

   Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2012 - 15:17

5. Performances Of Writing In The Age Of Digital Transliteration

   SUMMARY

    

   This paper addresses and attempts a reconfiguration of the theory and practice of writing (and/or language art) in networked and programmable media (hereafter, in this abstract, abbreviated as "npm").

   A number of problems provoke the paper's arguments, problems and concerns which arise from the current practice of language art in npm :

   - the problematic (non-)engagement of language artists (poets) with text-making in npm

   - the (non-)engagement of visual, cinematic, audio-visual artists (especially those who are currently working in npm) with practicing language artists

   - the identification of those characteristic of textuality which are proper to npm (this involves a critique of hypertext, when hypertext is seen as a definitive or determinative genre in npm ) and the relationship of these characteristics to demonstrable language art practice

   - the (mis-)assimilation by established literary culture of rhetorical technologies which are emergent in npm.

   Thus, while the paper's arguments are theoretical or expository, there is also an underlying agenda, which might be expressed in a more polemical fashion:

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2012 - 14:43

6. Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext

   This paper combines film and hypertext theory to try and 'prise open' some hypertextual questions that have been poorly framed. It will use incorporate short film examples. It is also hoped that along the way it might provide a useful way for thinking about how, or why, cinematic theory (of one sort or another) is becoming increasingly relevant in hypertext theory.

   The recent history of hypertext and the image has produced a geneology that seems to have orientated itself around one of three major axes:

   • poststructural literary theories
   • post-ditigal celebrations of hypermedia 'promiscuity'
   • post-digital appropriations of cinema into hypertext

    

   The first category is what could be characterised as 'canonical' hypertext theory, and is represented by the early work of people like Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, George Landow and Richard Lanham. This work implicitly locates hypertext within existing literary traditions and relies upon the insights, and appropriation of, various softened forms of poststructural philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, de Man, Iser, et al).

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 17:33

7. Omission impossible: the ergodics of time

   1. Precautions

   This paper concentrates on temporal aspects of ergodic narratives. In that respect it runs counter to the still strong spatial emphasis in hypertext theory. Sadly, this emphasis often goes hand in hand with complete ignorance of narratology and with favoring the narrative models and ideals of 19th century mainstream fiction as is the case for instance with Janet H Murray´s recent book Hamlet on the Holodeck, the past of narrative in cyberspace. In order to avoid such unimaginative mistakes certain precautions had to be made.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 17:39

8. A White Paper of Information

   Also titled "Looking Backward: Visual Culture and Virtual Aesthetics, 1984-1998" -- the online essay presents a history of visual cultural, virtual aesthetics and visualization

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 17:48

9. Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics

   Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.06.2013 - 10:15

10. Digital Aesthetics

    Digital Aesthetics

    Scott Rettberg - 09.02.2015 - 09:16

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