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1. Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature

   Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature

   Dene Grigar - 19.07.2015 - 23:34

2. Guardians of the Gutenberg Galaxy: a Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries

   The primary aim of this paper is to identify some of the key structural elements of resistances to digital poetries, and emergent forms of resistance to digital poetries, exhibited in data collected from publishers associated with page-based poetry (Bohn) in Britain. This will start with analyses of interview texts from a spectrum of UK poetry publishers (collected as part of the first half of my PhD studies) with a particular attention paid to those newly developed modes of resistance to the digital, and the structure of organised and disorganised resistances. A guiding principle is that analysis of resistances, cultural hostility, and the negative spectrum of taste is often as revealing as that of the positive (Bourdieu). The relationship between these resistances and other statements of taste will be interrogated, their motives interpreted. These analyses will be used as a launchpad to raise wider questions about cultural authority, distinction and guardianship.

   David Devanny - 04.08.2015 - 11:50

3. "Jailbreaking the Global Mnemotechnical System: Electropoetics as Resistance"

   This paper will explore subversive practices of electronic literature as contexts for the experience of agency within various systems of control. Through close readings of covert communication practices in prison narratives alongside the works like Rob Wittig’s Netprovs, Richard Holeton’s slideshow narratives, Nick Montfort’s !#, and Darius Kazemi’s “Tiny Subversions,” this essay will consider poetic interventions against media culture, professionalization, and cybernetic systems in relation to the codes, mnemonic devices, and flights of fancy used by political prisoners and POWs to maintain identity against isolation, torture, and manipulation. In particular, this paper will touch down on the question of “the ends of electronic literature” by exploring the interrelational aspect of writing as a process that is primarily concerned with the creator imagining an other (an “author” reaching out to a “reader,” in the conventional literary sense) and the user finding meaning in the text (the reader having an encounter with the work of literature).

   Xiana Sotelo Garcia - 04.08.2015 - 12:19

4. Towards Minor Literary Forms: Digital Literature and the Art of Failure

   This essay was presented as the keynote talk at the 2014 Electronic Literature Organization conference in Milwaukee, WI. In this keynote, Illya Szilak highlights the power of “minor forms” in digital literature. Through a wide-ranging survey of works, Szilak identifies the tendency for “failure” in electronic literature as its most powerful feature: its capacity to deterritorialize the parameters of discourse and expand the potential of subjectivity in the process.

   J. R. Carpenter - 15.08.2015 - 12:34

5. Shuffling the Sjuzhet in Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1

   Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1 is an unbound novel that can be read in any order. This essay explores how the novel's indeterminate nature affects the sjuzhet and fabula. It finds that the fabula works in an essentially normal way, but priority is shifted from the reader-determined sjuzhet to the (perceived) author-determined fabula, which shows that readers privilege the author's intention over their own activity and order.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.08.2015 - 10:37

6. Electronic Literature Communities

   This collection provides us with landmarks to find our way through histories that took shape parallely by remembering events, journal launches, mailing lists, formal processes of institutionalisation, publications, of creative work, and other happenings, that served as impetus for the communities to form underneath the umbrella of electronic literature in practice. A broad range of research aims and methodologies are represented within the studies published in this book, ranging from an ethnographic approach (Travlou; Biggs), historical approaches based on interviews and a distant reading of the field (Walker Rettberg), research based on archival materials, documents and ephemera (Rettberg), conversations from Listservs and community websites (Glazier; Leishman), in addition to more traditional literary methodologies, and anecdotal accounts from individuals who were active participants developing the communities they discuss.

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.08.2015 - 15:09

7. Networks of Creativity: Electronic Literature Communities

   This introduction to Electronic Literature Communities gives an overview of the ELMCIP project, listing numerous academic publications and events affiliated with this project.

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.08.2015 - 15:27

8. The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature

   There is electronic literature that consists of works, and the authors and communities and practices around such works. This is not a book about that electronic literature. It is not a book that charts histories or genres of this emerging field, not a book setting out methods of reading and understanding. The Internet Unconscious is a book on the poetics of net writing, or more precisely on the subject of writing the net. By 'writing the net', Sandy Baldwin proposes three ways of analysis: 1) an understanding of the net as a loosely linked collocation of inscriptions, of writing practices and materials ranging from fundamental TCP/IP protocols to CAPTCHA and Facebook; 2) as a discursive field that codifies and organizes these practices and materials into text (and into textual practices of reading, archiving, etc.), and into an aesthetic institution of 'electronic literature'; and 3) as a project engaged by a subject, a commitment of the writers' body to the work of the net.

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.08.2015 - 16:53

9. Amateurs online: Creativity in a Community

   Amateurs online: Creativity in a Community

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.08.2015 - 16:56

10. Kid E-lit elektronisk litterature for barn og ungdom

    This is the booklet for the Kid E-lit exhibition affiliated with ELO 2015 at Bergen Public Library.

    Hannah Ackermans - 31.08.2015 - 13:18

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