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Learning to Throw Like Olympia: E-Lit and the Art of Failure
Viewed next to print literature, e-lit appears as a poor copy, a replica(nt) lacking both the genius agency of modernism and the abject subjectivity of postmodernism. In this talk, I will use the concepts of re-territorialization (Deleuze and Guattari) and “the open” (Giorgio Agamben) to show how, like Hoffman’s automaton, the “born digital” is powerful precisely because it fails to deceive. Neither preserving nor directly opposing the conventions of print-lit, e-lit functions as a reflecting apparatus that unmasks language and meaning-making as machines through the revelation of its own machine-works. Using multifarious examples from the work of Alan Bigelow, Mez Breeze, Emily Short, Jason Nelson, and others, I will show how these re-inscribe obstruction, glitch, error, randomness and obsolescence as potentiality. In doing so, they repurpose the productive and reproductive functions of writing not for some finite end or product, but for play.
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Jill Walker Rettberg - 19.06.2014 - 20:09
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Computational Editions, Ports, and Remakes of "First Screening" and "Karateka"
Print literature has a deep, theoretically-engaged history of scholarly editing practice which provides a powerful framework within which to understand different versions or editions of texts and the natures and sources of their differences. While scholarship on electronic literature has brought in forensic, bibliographic, and platform-related concepts in the last decade or so, only recently have original computational works been considered in this way. Much of the discourse around “digital editions” has focused on the creation of electronic versions of print works.
Alvaro Seica - 20.06.2014 - 00:20
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Intervista a Carlo Cinato
In this interview, Carlo Cinato, author of the hypertext novel L’uomo senza cappello e la donna con le scarpe grigie (The man without a hat and the woman with grey shoes) and curator of the blog Parolata, explains how he started getting interested in electronic literature and how he conceived his novel. Through the study of hypertextual and non sequencial books in printed form he discovered a new way of writing which was adaptable to the technical possibilities of the web and the ebooks. According to Cinato there are analogies between literary works of the print tradition and the digital tradition, but in particular the latter are characterised by the possibility of making a leap inside the text. The hypertextual structure alters the role of the reader, the materiality of the text, the way of reading and the way to write for an author. Moreover Cinato sees the writing of the novel as an experiment. It was an occasion to write by using one of the seven hypertext links he has pinpointed. In the end he explains in which way the hypertextual structure changes the way of reading and how it can be installed also in ebooks.
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Daniele Giampà - 12.11.2014 - 19:35
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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
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This Is Not the Beginning or the End of Literature
It is too easy to fall into prognostications of electronic literature as the end of literature or as a new beginning. (...) Such views imply too much teleology, and see electronic literature purely as the unfolding of the possibilities of the apparatus. The rhetorical logic at work is literalization, i.e. taking literary works as the sum of their technical features. (Rui Torres & Sandy Baldwyn, eds. 2014. PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia. Morgantown, WV: Center for Literary Computing: xv-xvi).
Hannah Ackermans - 28.11.2015 - 14:53
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From eLit to pLit: Benefits and Limitations of a Model for the Visualization and Analysis of Collaborative Writing in Electronic and Printed Literature
From eLit to pLit: Benefits and Limitations of a Model for the Visualization and Analysis of Collaborative Writing in Electronic and Printed Literature
Heiko Zimmermann - 13.06.2016 - 07:29
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#ELRPROMO: “Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context”
This is the first interview of a series called Electronic Literature Review Promotion. These interviews are published one month before the event takes place.
Daniele Giampà - 07.04.2018 - 16:36
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Interview with Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy is a pioneer in the field of electronic literature. As she writes in this interview, she wrote the first hyperfiction in 1986 called “Uncle Rogers” a series of works of hypernarratives for Eastgate Systems, the first hypertext publishing house founded in 1982 in Watertown, Massachusetts (USA). The interview is a resume of her work as an author and visiting lecturer at Princeton University that still goes on as her latest publication in 2016 can prove.
Daniele Giampà - 07.04.2018 - 16:59
