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  1. Writing Machines

    Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 20:34

  2. Image and Text in Hypermedia Literature: The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

    A detailed reading of the relations between image, text, and linkage in Strickland's hypermedia ballad.

    Scott Rettberg - 24.02.2011 - 11:39

  3. From Lexias to Remediation: Theories of Hypertext Authorship in the 1990s

    How electronic-writing technologies will affect authorship remains an
    important issue in hypertext theory. Theorists agree that the author’s function
    has changed and will continue to change as writing migrates from the page to
    the screen, but they disagree on the specifics of how print-based and
    hypertext-based authorship differ and whether this digital migration constitutes a radical break from the age of print. Early hypertext
    advocates, writing in the early 1990s, claimed that naviagational features, such
    as hypertextual links, transfer a large degree of textual control from writers
    to readers, thus blurring the distinction between the role of the author and
    that of the reader. More recently, theorists began to dispute the idea that the
    hypertextual reading experience was necessarily more creatively empowering than
    reading a printed book. Exploring the arguments of influential hypertext
    theorists, this paper traces developments in hypertext theory in the United
    States during the 1990s. It describes how poststructuralism has informed

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 12:51

  4. "Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson

    "Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:09

  5. Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework

    Codework refers to the use of the contemporary idiolect of the computer and computing processes in digital media experimental writing, or [net.writing]. Some of the prominent practitioners include Alan Sondheim, who has given the practice and genre its name, Mez (Mary-Anne Breeze), Talan Memmott, Ted Warnell, Brian Lennon, and John Cayley. These writers also use different terms to refer to work: Mez composes in a neologistic "net.wurked" language that she has termed m[ez]ang.elle; Memmott uses the term "rich.lit"; Warnell names some of his JavaScript poems "codepoetry"; Lennon refers to "digital visual poetics"; and Cayley produces algorithmic, generative texts, or "programmable poetry." Writers and artists who have taken up the general practice of codework heed the mandate - "use the computer; it is not a television" - and strive to foreground and theorize the relations between interface and machine and so reflect on the networked environment that constitutes and is constituted by a digital text. The precise techniques vary, but the general result is a text-object or a text-event that emphasizes its own programming, mechanism, and materiality.

    Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:09

  6. The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

    An essay considering the nature of "codework" and arguing against the collapse of "code" and "text" into one category. Cayley considers the different modes of reading involved in reading works that may be read both as computational artifacts and as works of literature.

    Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:14

  7. The Digital Loop: Feedback and Recurrence

    The Digital Loop: Feedback and Recurrence

    Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:28

  8. Technotexuality: An Interview with N. Katherine Hayles and Anne Burdick

    Interview with the author and designer of Writing Machines.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 28.05.2011 - 01:08

  9. Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic Literature

    N. Katherine Hayles's keynote address for the 2002 State of the Arts Symposium at UCLA. Hayles identifies two generations of electronic literature: mainly text-based works produces in Storyspace and Hypercard until about 1995-1997, and second-generation works, mainly authored in Director, Flash, Shockwave and XML in years after that. She identifies second-generation works as "fully multimedia" and notes a move "deeper into the machine." She then reads a number of second-generation works in the context of their computational specificity.

    Publication note: Also published online in Culture Machine Vol. 5 (2003)

    Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 12:38

  10. Adventures in Mot-Town

    In his State of the Arts keynote, Coover offered a tour of a number of contemporary works of electronic literature, in the style of an adventure story following our hero "Mot" -- the word -- as it wrestles through the multimediated world of graphic networked technologies.

    Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 16:17

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