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A Quick Buzz around the Universe of Electronic Poetry
An introductory essay that offers readers new to electronic poetry a brief survey of the field as it was taking shape at the beginning of the new century. The essay provides a tentative definition of e-poetry and identifies various poets writing digital poetry along with links to their works.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 13:03
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Grappling With the Actual: Writing on the Periphery of the Real
This essay considers literary realism in relation to two of my own recent works of digital literature: This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones, and The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel. Both of these web-based works grapple with the actual world we live in: a post-digital world, in which invisible layers of data inform our daily thoughts and actions; a post-human world, of vast oceans and ceaseless winds. These works use the affordances of the internet to call attention to the historical, colonial, elemental, and material substrate of the internet; both attempt to represent the reality of the vast corpus of non-human writing which lurks beneath the mere appearance of the screen. Methodologically, this essay grapples with the material and contextual actualities of these works by turning its attention to earlier analogous moments in the intertwined histories of technology, science, and writing. In particular, this essay is concerned with the technology of the ship, the science of measurement, and the writing of the vast non-human systems of coastlines and winds.
J. R. Carpenter - 27.08.2021 - 12:54
