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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
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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
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.07.2011 - 17:35
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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
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Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction
Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction
Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 22:54
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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
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Language machines : technologies of literary and cultural production
Language machines : technologies of literary and cultural production
Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:35
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Forms of Future
Forms of Future
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.05.2012 - 09:29
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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
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No War Machine
No War Machine
Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 20:04
