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New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory. This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and broadly considering the relationship between digital technology and narrative theory in the face of the changing landscape of computer-mediated communication.
New Narratives reflects the diversity of its subject by bringing together some of the foremost practitioners and theorists of digital narratives. It extends the range of digital subgenres examined by narrative theorists to include forms that have become increasingly prominent, new examples of experimental hypertext, and contemporary video games. The collection also explicitly draws connections between the development of narrative theory, technological innovation, and the use of narratives in particular social and cultural contexts.
Scott Rettberg - 14.10.2011 - 12:52
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Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing
Reflecting on the relation between the media ages of orality, writing, and digital networking, Liu asks the question: what happens today to the “sense of history” that was the glory of the high age of print? In particular, what does the age of social computing—social networking, blogs, Twitter, etc.—have in common with prior ages in which the experience of sociality was deeply vested in a shared sense of history? Liu focuses on a comparison of nineteenth-century historicism and contemporary Web 2.0, and concludes by touching on the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment that the Transliteracies Project he directs has been building to model past bibliographical resources as a social network. (Source: author's abstract)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.10.2011 - 13:05
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Third Hand Plays: “Struts” by J. R. Carpenter
A profile of the prolific e-lit author J. R. Carpenter focusing on the geosocial dimension of her works before introducing "Struts," a piece about her residency at an art gallery and media center.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.10.2011 - 09:14
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Generating Books: Paradoxical Print Snapshots of Digital Literary Processes
Since the advent of the internet, advocates and critics alike have heralded the end of the book. George P. Landow observed that hypertextuality and poststructuralism emerged at the same moment, both due to dissatisfaction with the printed book and hierarchal thought. Derrida argued the question of writing could only be opened if the book was closed. Consider, then, the paradoxical position of Vienna-based publishers TRAUMAWIEN. Recognizing that although the vast majority of the text produced by computer systems – protocols, listings, error logs, binary codes – is never seen or read by those who consume it, this text is internal to our daily thoughts and actions and is thus literary. TRAUMAWIEN conceives of the print books it publishes as snapshots of computer generated literary processes which would otherwise be disappearing as soon as they are written. This paper will discuss the iterative processes by which I generated one such book published by TRAUMAWIEN in 2010.
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 12:05
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Performing Digital Texts in European Contexts
Performing Digital Texts in European Contexts: collecting, recollecting and commenting on digital texts and contexts operating in the inter-zones where digital media, literature, visual art and performance practices meet.
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 13:02
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CONT3XT.NET is Everything
CONT3XT.NET is Everything
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 13:13
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Kac, Cayley, and Kargl on Translation
Kac, Cayley, and Kargl on Translation
J. R. Carpenter - 25.11.2011 - 13:19
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Writing to be Found and Writing Readers
Poetic writing for programmable and network media seems to have been captivated by the affordances of new media and questions of whether or not and if so, how certain novel, media-constituted properties and methods of literary objects require us to reassess and reconfigure the literary itself. What if we shift our attention decidedly to practices, processes, procedures — towards ways of writing and ways of reading rather than dwelling on either textual artifacts themselves (even time-based literary objects) or the concepts underpinning objects-as-artifact? What else can we do, given that we must now write on, for, and with the net which is itself no object but a seething mass of manifold processes?
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.12.2011 - 10:59
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Massively Multireader: A Networked Teaching of House of Leaves across Five Classrooms
Why read an incredibly complex novel by yourself when you can tackle it with 60 other students across the nation? This presentation will report on a cross-campus experiment in scholarly communication, digital making, and classroom shifting at five public, private, and small liberal arts schools.
Patricia Tomaszek - 03.12.2011 - 19:00
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Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing
In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today’s writers.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.12.2011 - 10:03
