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  1. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

    Cybertext explores the aesthetics and the textual dynamics of digital literature and its many diverse genres such as hypertext fiction, computer games, computer generated poetry and prose, and collaborative Internet texts such as MUDs. However, instead of insisting on the uniqueness and newness of "electronic writing" or "interactive fiction" (phrases which mean very little) the author situates these new literary forms within the larger and much older field of "ergodic" literature, from the ancient Chinese I Ching to the literary experiments of the OuLiPo. These are open, dynamic texts where the reader must perform specific actions to generate a literary sequence, which may vary for every reading. Aarseth constructs a theoretical model that describes how these literary forms are different from each other, and demonstrates how the widely assumed divide between paper texts and electronic texts breaks down under careful analysis.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 21.09.2010 - 10:59

  2. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

    Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:19

  3. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

    The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.07.2011 - 17:35

  4. Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Cyberculture

    Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Cyberculture

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.07.2011 - 11:32

  5. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

    How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis-the belief that humans and technics are coevolving-and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. mines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication. She goes on to depict the neurological consequences of working in digital media, where skimming and scanning, or "hyper reading," and analysis through machine algorithms are forms of reading as valid as close reading once was.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2012 - 09:33

  6. Language machines : technologies of literary and cultural production

    Language machines : technologies of literary and cultural production

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:35

  7. From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media

    It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From Text to Hypertext, analyzing the issue of subject construction and deconstruction in selected examples of visual art, literature, film, and electronic media. Gaggi concentrates on a few paradigmatic works in each chapter; he contrasts van Eyck's Wedding of Arnolfini with the photography of Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger; examines fiction that centers on an elusive subject in works by Conrad, Faulkner, and Calvino; and explores the ability of such films as Coppola's One from the Heart and Altman's The Player to emancipate the subject through cinematography and editing.

    Scott Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 22:20

  8. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic literature

    The influential book that introduced the terms cybertext and ergodic literature was first written as a PhD dissertation. See the entry for the book for details and references.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 21:35

  9. Nostalgic Angels: Reconfiguring Hypertext Writing

    1993 diss. from Clarkson Tech, published as book in 1997.

    Scott Rettberg - 01.07.2013 - 12:55

  10. Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume: Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung

    Raum, Raumsprache und Sprachräume: Zur Textsemiotik der Raumbeschreibung

    Patricia Tomaszek - 04.07.2013 - 16:45

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