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1. Digital Poetics or On the Evolution of Experimental Media Poetry

   The academic and literature critical discussion on new media poetry or about digital texts swings to and fro, in method and conception between two poles: one is the 'work immanent' approach of structure description and classification, and the other the deduction of abstract media esthetics. At a tangent to this the communication on media, culture and media art has been more or less committed to the priority of technological reasoning since the nineties at the latest. The concern with technology remains a dilemma: Technology has to be taken into account when dealing with concrete structure analyses of works of digital poetry, but some traps lie in wait. Is the knowledge accounted for here really sufficient? I would say that few of those taking part in the discussion who do not actually work in the specific area artistically are capable of programming digital texts (the same may be said of some artists). Another problem is something I have casually termed a new techno-ontology: a ‘cold fascination’ for technological being (also of texts), which flares up briefly with each innovation pressing for the market in the respective field.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 14:16

2. Ping Poetics

   Sandy Baldwin investigates the manner in which a computer "ping trace" can be classified as a form of digital poetics, and discusses the underlying symbolic practices of both poesis and poetics that encompass coding and computation.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.09.2010 - 11:27

3. In Search of Novel Poetic Territories: On Media Poetry: An International Anthology

   In Search of Novel Poetic Territories: On Media Poetry: An International Anthology

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.04.2011 - 12:14

4. Dichtung Digital 40

   This edition reflects upon the need of techniques to approach the ongoing upheavals taking place in today's technology-driven production of (literary) art. The contributions assembled here all discuss ways of reading cultural objects created with digital media. The objects of interest are: a computer game (Soderman), a performance of a work that houses and visualizes its literary artifacts on a website - a huge database of texts by different authors (Rettberg), default settings and electronic poetics in an age of technological determinism (Heckman), literary artifacts in between book and programmable media (Vincler), story-telling in the Gulf (Lenze), and signs in a culture of mashups (Navas). In a time when cultural objects in digital culture reconfigure the reception of their addressees, it is important to develop not only a proper understanding of the impact of these ruptures on literary communication but also an interpretation of the presented moves into the scope of scholarly discussion. Such an engagement calls for what Roberto Simanowski proposes in his contribution: "digital hermeneutics."

   Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 18:42

5. Inner Workings: Code and Representations of Interiority in New Media Poetics

   'Inner Workings' addresses itself to the methods, properties and practices of writing systems, including human writing systems, whose very signifiers are programmed. What does programmed signification tell us about the inner human writing machine? John Cayley's essay participates in relevant metacritical and metapsychological discussions - reexamining Freud's Mystic Writing Pad in particular - and is specifically sited within the context of debates on code and codework in literal art. Rather than revealed interiority, code is the archive and guarantee of inner workings than reside beneath the complex surfaces of poetics in programmable media.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 27.05.2011 - 23:29

6. Language Writing, Digital Poetics, and Transitional Materialities

   Language Writing, Digital Poetics, and Transitional Materialities

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2011 - 21:18

7. A Poem Is a Machine to Think With: Digital Poetry and the Paradox of Innovation

   A Poem Is a Machine to Think With: Digital Poetry and the Paradox of Innovation

   Patricia Tomaszek - 21.09.2011 - 14:46

8. Screening a Digital Visual Poetics

   Screening a Digital Visual Poetics

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.02.2012 - 23:27