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1. A Topographical Approach to Re-Reading Books about Islands in Digital Literary Spaces

   This paper takes a topographical approach to re-reading print books in digital literary spaces through a discussion of a web-based work of digital literature “…and by islands I mean paragraphs” (Carpenter 2013). In this work, a reader is cast adrift in a sea of white space extending far beyond the bounds of the browser window, to the north, south, east and west. This sea is dotted with computer-generated paragraphs. These fluid texts call upon variable strings containing words and phrases collected from a vast literary corpus of books about islands. Individually, each of these textual islands represents a topic – from the Greek topos, meaning place. Collectively they constitute a topographical map of a sustained practice of reading and re-reading and writing and re-writing on the topic of islands. This paper will argue that, called as statement-events into digital processes, fragments of print texts are reconstituted as events occurring in a digital present which is also a break from the present. A new regime of signification emerges, in which authorship is distributed and text is ‘eventilized’ (Hayles).

   Alvaro Seica - 15.05.2015 - 13:59

2. The Novel as Multimedia, Networked Book: An Interview with Steve Tomasula

   Steve Tomasula is the author of several novels—VAS: An Opera in Flatland [2002], The Book of Portraiture [2006], TOC: A New-Media Novel [DVD, 2009; App for iPad, 2014], IN&OZ [2012]—, short stories—Once Human: Stories [2014]—and essays. His work reflects on language, technology and embodiment at the intersection between the human, society and culture. Inventive explorations of the technologies of the book, his narrative image-texts and image-audio-texts are complex multimodal and multimedia compositions that reveal the interconnectedness of print and digital codes. Expressed through graphic devices and source code, these material interventions are functional elements in weaving a transdisciplinary web of discourses —literature, biotechnology, cybernetics, art history. Heterogeneous and dialogical, the novel-form is transformed into a multilayered media assemblage and a meditation on our post-human experience.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.07.2016 - 15:23

3. Digital Poetry and Critical Discourse: A Network of Self-References?

   This article emerges from macroanalysis of several works of critical writing in the field of digital poetry, which have been documented in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. The problems addressed in this context are the self-referentiality exhibited by authors who are both practitioners and theoreticians, and the need for a wider selection of digital poems in critical discourse. The dataset consists of monographs and Ph.D. dissertations on digital poetry (1995-2015), which have been exported into visualization software. Macro and network analyses enable new debate concerning the outlined problems and new findings. My findings suggest that criticism in this domain is chiefly endogenous and that a limited number of poems is being canonized. Therefore, a meta-discourse perspective can pave the way for an external view of the field, concerning its epistemology and evolution. The dataset is available online for download and can be tested and reconsidered by other researchers.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 07.11.2016 - 18:08

4. 'Húmus': Colagem; Montagem; Recombinação

   The aim of this article is to highlight the dialogue established by Herberto Helder, in his poem Húmus – Poema Montagem, with the narrative Húmus by Raul Brandão, through examples of collage and textual combination processes carried out in the poem. Further description is provided, in an exploratory way, about the way by which Húmus – Poema Contínuo, a recombinational experience with both works carried out in the field of Cyberliterature using the textual engine Poemário, promotes a continuous textual metamorphosis of these creations, questioning the materiality of language and the uninterruptible metamorphoses of meaning.

   (Source: Authors' Abstract)

   Rui Torres - 09.12.2016 - 13:54

5. Anything New Here in Story Apps? A Reflection on the Storytelling Mechanism across Media

   Anything New Here in Story Apps? A Reflection on the Storytelling Mechanism across Media

   Yan Zheng - 04.01.2017 - 16:41

6. Gestos de Subversão. Estratégias de significação e afecto no Experimentalismo poético

   The present article proposes a reflection on the much-discussed theme of the ―neobaroque‖ in experimental literature. Drawing attention to the presence of baroque influence in the literary art of Italian Futurists and Experimental Portuguese Poets, I argue that, if cybernetic poetry is to be seen as a continuation of Experimentalism, its growing emphasis on gesture and touch should be analysed in accordance with theories pointing to the presence of a gestural dimension in the baroque and, as a consequence, in historical avant-garde movements. Particular emphasis will be given to the theoretical writings of Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Experimental Portuguese Poet Ana Hatherly, two Vanguard exponents whose artistic works were directly concerned with the tactile/haptic dimension of arts.

   Diogo Marques - 26.07.2017 - 16:10

7. An Aesthetics of the Unsaid

   Andrew Lindquist reviews Michael LeMahieu’s Fictions of Fact and Value, examining the influence of logical positivism on American literature of the postwar era.

   Source: Author’s Abstract

   Ana Castello - 12.09.2017 - 14:58

8. Building Community through a Digital Literature Archive: The Case of Ciberia Project

   Ciberia Project has emerged around the creation of Ciberia, a digital archive dedicated to digital literature in Spanish, with the purpose of making its contents more widely shared and fostering community building around digital literature. This project in-tends to function as a platform for a community interested and/or specialized in new creative forms of literary publishing, using the Ciberia database as the confluence point and origin of collective interaction, creation and reflection on digital literature and its ramifications in the field of literary publishing. This paper provides a descrip-tion of the digital library Ciberia, and its spin-off, the web platform Ciberia Project, offering a detailed account of their structure and potentialities.

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   Hannah Ackermans - 19.11.2018 - 10:03

9. Topologia digital da página impressa no Arquivo Digital da PO.EX

   Este artigo categoriza as estratégias de recodificação digital presentes no "Arquivo Digital da PO.EX" e analisa a reflexividade intermedial da escrita, da imagem e do código em textos visuais de Ana Hatherly, E. M. de Melo e Castro e José-Alberto Marques. A recodificação digital permite apreender a complexa topologia da página impressa como articuladora dos sinais escritos na produção de sentido.

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   Hannah Ackermans - 07.12.2018 - 10:56

10. The Biopolitics of Electronic Literature: On the Writings of Mez Breeze

    The Biopolitics of Electronic Literature: On the Writings of Mez Breeze

    Gesa Blume - 26.08.2019 - 23:26