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1. Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media

   Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary analysis should awaken to the importance of media-specific analysis, a mode of critical attention which recognizes that all texts are instantiated and that the nature of the medium in which they are instantiated matters. Central to repositioning critical inquiry, so it can attend to the specificity of the medium, is a more robust notion of materiality. Materiality is reconceptualized as the interplay between a text's physical characteristics and its signifying strategies, a move that entwines instantiation and signification at the outset. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation. It makes materiality an emergent property, so that it cannot be specified in advance, as if it were a pre-given entity. Rather, materiality is open to debate and interpretation, ensuring that discussions about the text's "meaning" will also take into account its physical specificity as well.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 21:11

2. Archivierung von digitaler Literatur: Probleme,Tendenzen, Perspektiven / Archiving Electronic Literature and Poetry: Problems, Tendencies, Perspectives

   A special issue of the journal SPIEL.

   Electronic literature and E-Poetry is updated, interactive, subjective and well networked. But how durable is it? How long do texts published on web pages remain readable? What happens to the old issues if one visits a literature magazine “via the web”? How is a blog archived? Should texts that are deliberately published on the fleeting medium internet be conserved at all for the future?

   It seems ironic that the transient character of the internet is attached to a medium that seems to be very suitable for documentation and archiving. And still each website only remains available on the internet at its original address for less than 100 days on average. Afterwards it moves or is erased completely. This is of course also the case for Net literature.

   However, different genres turn the tables. These conceptions don’t even have the problems of archiving and musealization, but explicitly excluded them. The temporary and transience becomes the topic of literature.

   Beat Suter - 28.03.2011 - 16:16

3. Locating the Literary in New Media

   Locating the Literary in New Media

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.06.2011 - 09:14

4. How Interactive Can Fiction Be?

   How Interactive Can Fiction Be?

   Jörgen Schäfer - 28.06.2011 - 16:56

5. De la confirmation à la subversion: Les figures d’animation face aux conventions du discours numérique

   Dans le domaine du discours numérique, le terme « figure » s’est rapidement imposé pour circonscrire certains phénomènes de sens émergeant du couplage entre le mouvement, la manipulation, et le texte ou l’image. Un transfert direct des figures linguistiques dans le domaine du discours numérique semble néanmoins problématique à cause de la nature pluricode de ces couplages. Dans cet article, nous nous concentrons sur le couplage texte / image – mouvement. Notre but est de compléter les approches existantes par une analyse sémio-rhétorique identifiant avec précision les procédés par lesquels les « figures d’animation » soulignent, confirment ou subvertissent les conventions du discours numérique.

   Alexandra Saemmer - 03.07.2011 - 16:23

6. Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext

   Essay discussing the motif of the car crash in early hypertext fiction, concluding that the breakdown (in many senses) is in fact a key feature of hypertext.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.07.2011 - 14:36

7. Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction

   Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 22:54

8. "Terminal Hopscotch": Navigating Networked Space in Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia

   "Terminal Hopscotch": Navigating Networked Space in Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.11.2011 - 08:03

9. The Imaginary Solution

   "[A] particular modernism has finally fully arrived, about a decade behind schedule, but making up for lost time. Part of the task of this essay is to docu- ment the emergence of this return and to provide evidence of a ten- dency that plays out across media, indexing and exemplifying one of the defining conditions of its cultural moment. Because these works fall outside the genres and styles likely to be familiar even to many readers of avant-garde literature, this documentation will require a certain degree of descriptive cataloguing (although it is worth noting that the catalogue itself, not coincidentally, is a key component of the works I will itemize). With the series of examples that follow, I further hope to show that this particular trend in contemporary literature is uniquely hinged, not only recovering one of the dreams of its literary past but also looking forward to what may be the nightmare of our digital future.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.12.2011 - 13:38

10. Our Ailing Educational Institutions

    Our Ailing Educational Institutions

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.02.2012 - 12:14

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