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1. Time and Temporality in Digital Fictions

   The exceptional quality of digital fictions lies in their inherently dynamic nature, how they may be flexibly programmed to generate new content and alter the already existing contents. This adds a new temporal level, compared to traditional fictions. Already the history of digital fictions (both digital literature and games) presents us with a variety of temporal practices which challenge the conventional ways of understanding fictional time.
   We have at least the following four temporal levels for digital fictions with narrative content:

   1. user time (the time the user spends using the work)
   2. discourse time (the time of the narrative discourse)
   -pseudo time
   -true time
   3. story time (the time of the fictional events)
   4. system time (the time of the digital system states)

   Alvaro Seica - 13.11.2014 - 13:33

2. Automated Diaries and Quantified Selves

   Automated Diaries and Quantified Selves

   Alvaro Seica - 13.11.2014 - 23:17

3. Complications of Narrative Time in Electronic Literature

   Complications of Narrative Time in Electronic Literature

   Alvaro Seica - 13.11.2014 - 23:19

4. A Knot in Time Is Not a Not’: Flux Narratifs et Temporalités

   A Knot in Time Is Not a Not’: Flux Narratifs et Temporalités

   Alvaro Seica - 03.02.2015 - 15:30

5. Algo-trading and the Digital Subject in Robert Harris’ 'The Fear Index'

   Algo-trading and the Digital Subject in Robert Harris’ 'The Fear Index'

   Alvaro Seica - 05.02.2015 - 12:36

6. A Solipsist Can’t Tell the Time : Changes in the Digital Subject from ‘Vocational Time’ to ‘Timeless Time’

   To what extent are contemporary information and communication technologies (ICTs) implicated in an experience of time that can be characterised as ‘solipsistic’? Metaphysical solipsism, as Bertrand Russell put it, is ‘…the hypothesis that the world consists of myself and my thoughts and feelings and sensations, and that everything else is mere fancy’ (1959: 22). To what extent, then, are ICTs implicated in promoting the experience of time accompanying that world?

   The essay is structured around three key concepts. Part one focuses on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological concepts of ‘vocational time’ and ‘epochē’. Part two focuses on Manuel Castells’ sociological concept of ‘timeless time’. In part three, I conclude by arguing that ICTs do indeed promote a ‘solipsistic’ experience of time. Solipsism, in the strict metaphysical sense, is an absurd hypothesis; paradoxically, however, it can still be believed, practised, and, I argue, encouraged by certain artifacts and practices within our shared world. The argument is that we should be aware of this paradox in our interactions with ICTs.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 05.02.2015 - 12:37

7. Touch as Technê : Pulse Project

   Touch as Technê : Pulse Project

   Alvaro Seica - 05.02.2015 - 15:12

8. Techné, Corps et Temporalités: Culture de l’écran et Fiction Contemporaine

   Techné, Corps et Temporalités: Culture de l’écran et Fiction Contemporaine

   Alvaro Seica - 05.02.2015 - 15:17