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1. False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

   A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57

2. Playable Media and Textual Instruments

   The statement that "this is not a game" has been employed in many ways — for example, to distinguish between high and low culture electronic texts, to market an immersive game meant to break the "magic circle" that separates games from the rest of life, to demarcate play experiences (digital or otherwise) that fall outside formal game definitions, and to distinguish between computer games and other forms of digital entertainment. This essay does not seek to praise some uses of this maneuver and condemn others. Rather, it simply points out that we are attempting to discuss a number of things that we play (and create for play) but that are arguably not games. Calling our experiences "interactive" would perhaps be accurate, but overly broad. An alternative — "playable" — is proposed, considered less as a category than as a quality that manifests in different ways. "Playable media" may be an appropriate way to discuss both games and the "not games" mentioned earlier.

   Jörgen Schäfer - 05.07.2011 - 13:35

3. Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.07.2011 - 16:37

4. Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star

   Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:14

5. You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media

   You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 07.06.2013 - 11:17

6. Interactive Technology and the Remediation of the Subject of Writing

   Interactive Technology and the Remediation of the Subject of Writing

   Scott Rettberg - 25.06.2013 - 13:59

7. Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext

   Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext

   Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 21:45

8. A Literatura Factorial [l!]

   By focusing on hyperfiction, this paper presents some proto-hyperfictions, dealing with literature's combinatorial processes (ars combinatoria), and with its composition based on permutations. This practice, which continues today, although using different techniques and effects, I call factorial literature [l!]. My aim is to introduce the concept of factorial literature as a transtemporal genre that has been intensified in the context of electronic literature. In the analysis of hyperfiction, I return to the definitions of hypertext by Theodor Holm Nelson (1965) and Gérard Genette (1982). Referring back to essays by Italo Calvino (1967) on literature, mathematics and cybernetics, and articles by Robert Coover (1992, 1993) about the new literary practices in digital environments, I prepare the coordinates for a revaluation of hyperfiction's recent history and its software, namely through the transient concept of constant restart, associated with the reader's new role as user.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 02.07.2013 - 17:01

9. The Frontiers between Digital Literature and Net.art

   My aim is to show how the frontiers between the various disciplinary spheres are disappearing in the digital world. Therefore, to start with, the basic aspects of what is known as digital art are set out and are compared with the concepts of Roland Barthes on the post-modern text. In this way a relationship is established between the discourses on Net.art and digital creation on the Net and theoretical postulates on hypertext and Net.literature. Next the results of this comparative reflection are applied to a visual experience: letting a series of online works speak, grouped together in a particular classification, in order to see whether or not the theoretical model constructed is valid. Finally, I pose questions about this experience by highlighting the implications of the construction of new contexts in real time in the sphere of literary and artistic creation.

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   Alvaro Seica - 22.08.2013 - 11:34

10. Engineering Cyborg Ideology

    Have you seen a cyborg today? Would you know it if you had? A creature of science fiction novels, electronic engineering, and postmodern theory, the cyborg is like the white heron of Sarah Orne Jewett’s story: often discussed but seldom glimpsed. The ambiguity of what one means by a cyborg rumbles through Diane Greco’s electronic hypertext Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric as she plays a series of electronic riffs on Donna Haraway’s now famous essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” giving it, to my Los Angeles ear, an unsettling quality not unlike the queasiness I feel when I go through the mountain tunnel of the Universal Studios tour.

     

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    Ole Samdal - 24.10.2017 - 15:28