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1. Electronic Records at the National Archives

   Electronic Records at the National Archives

   Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2013 - 10:38

2. Is the Future of Electronic Literature the Future of the Literary?

   Is the Future of Electronic Literature the Future of the Literary?

   Scott Rettberg - 12.01.2013 - 11:01

3. Present, tense, ordinary, fiction comma dot calm

   Present, tense, ordinary, fiction comma dot calm

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 13:01

4. Fixing the Computer World

   Nelson believes today's computer world is based on tekkie misunderstanding of human life and human thought.

   These have led to unfortunate traditions and structures: hierarchical directories, the PARC user world (the so-called "modern GUI"), the division of the software world into high-walled applications, WYSIWYG documents (simulating paper under glass that you can't mark or cut up), the redefinition of "cut and paste" from their important meaning of previous centuries, the one-way non-overlappable links of the World Wide Web, the locking of Web pages to Internet locations, XML with its imposed hierarchy and non-overlappable attributes of locked-in descriptors, and now the Semantic Web-- a plan for tekkie committees to standardize the universe of human ideas.

   All these, Nelson says, are based on warped notions of how ideas, and people, work, and come from traditions and mind-set of the tekkie community. But it is not too late to provide alternatives, because the problems of the present approaches corrupt our work and lives at every level, and huge improvements are possible.

   (Source: Author's abstract, Incubation3 conference site, trAce Archive)

   Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 23:18

5. Relocating the Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material and Mental Environments

   In two essays, “Toward a Semantic Literary Web” (2006, ONLINE at http://eliterature.org/pad/slw.html) and “Electronic Literature as World Literature” (2010, Poetics Today), I set out a project for identifying literary qualities and marking literature’s present transformations within new media. The idea in these essays was to discern aesthetic and communicative qualities that I felt could be carried over to the present (e.g., Goethe’s and Marx’s unrealized call for the formation of a world literature “transcending national limits”), and those that could easily go missing (e.g., the materially bounded object whose aesthetic can be recognized and repeated by a generation of authors in conversation with one another).

   Scott Rettberg - 27.04.2013 - 23:06

6. 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.

   (Source: author's abstract)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 19.06.2014 - 20:09

7. Life Poetry Told by Sensors

   Life Poetry Told by Sensors

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 19.06.2014 - 20:43

8. Thinking Paratextually: Making Meaning from Paradigm Shifts in the Age of Digital Culture

   Based on the dual perspective of looking back and moving forward, this talk will explore the
   underlying tensions in recent work on paratextual theory and on elements that may – or not – fall
   under an evolving definition of what constitutes digital paratext.
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:04

9. Selvbilder

   Lecture with Siri Meyer on self-representation from the Renaissance to social media.

   Alvaro Seica - 26.09.2014 - 18:13

10. Green-Screeners: Locating the Literary History of Word Processing

    “I suppose that my fiction will be word-processed by association, though I myself will not become a green-screener,” John Barth told the Paris Review in 1985. But just a few years later he did, not only switching to a word processor but exploring the machine as a subject in subsequent fiction. This lecture, drawn from my forthcoming book Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, interweaves a narrative of word processing’s introduction to the literary world–we will see that Barth’s story, both his abrupt turn-around and his fear of guilt by association is typical–with a consideration of practical problems in doing research at the intersection of literary and technological history, especially the changing nature of the archive as primary source material becomes itself “born-digital.” Along the way we will take a look at Stephen King’s Wang, John Updike’s trash, and the 200-pound writing machine that produced the first word processed novel in English.

    (Source: ELD 2015)

    Alvaro Seica - 15.05.2015 - 13:50

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