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1. Digital Ekphrasis and the Uncanny: Toward a Poetics of Augmented Reality

   In this essay, Robert P. Fletcher demonstrates how, while putting together digital and print media affordances, augmented print may evoke in readers a sense of the uncanny. Fletcher also explains how works such as Amaranth Borsuk’s Abra (2014), Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe’s Ice-Bound (2016) or Stuart Campbell’s Modern Polaxis (2014) seem to demonstrate the existence of a never-ending return of the “familiar” in electronic literature.

   Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 12:35

2. Debates in the Digital Humanities formerly known as Humanities Computing

   In a review that addresses (and exposes) the founding myth of the “digital humanities” (DH), formerly known as “humanities computing,” Roberto Simanowski and Luciana Gattass measure just how much the 99 articles collected by Mathew Gold and Lauren Klein have overturned “academic life as we know it.”

   Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 12:48

3. Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic Literature

   Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google Now: How will our encounters with these intelligent personal assistants - robots we’ve invited into our homes to speak with and listen to us, who share this data with vectorialist institutions that monitor our networked transactions - alter both human language and our efforts to lead meaningful lives? In a wide-ranging, philosophical essay that exposes various myths of computation while presenting a candid assessment of the rapidly evolving culture of reading, poet John Cayley speculates that literature will be displaced by aurature. Listen up, readers: A major challenge in the programming era will be to develop linguistic aesthetic practices that intervene significantly and affectively in socio-ideological spaces thoroughly saturated with synthetic language that are largely controlled by commercial interests. The time for aesthetic experiments that disrupt the protocols of a still-nascent aurature is now.

   Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 13:34

4. Not a case of words: Textual Environments and Multimateriality in Between Page and Screen

   In this essay, Ortega departs from Ulises Carrión’s notion of book as a “spatio-temporal entity” which goes beyond verbal language, in order to demonstrate how hybrid works (or “textual environments”) such as Amaranth Borsuk’s Between Page and Screen (2012) may create “new genres and material and poetic expressiveness.” By drawing on Rita Raley’s “TXTual practice,” Ortega also demonstrates how the “material dynamics” displayed by these works decisively contributes to the generation of meaning.

   Mona Pihlamäe - 10.10.2017 - 13:43

5. Review of Stewart O'Nan's West of Sunset

   In this review of O’Nan’s West of Sunset, Messenger explores 20th Century American literary history as a kind of contemporary metafictional myth. Using Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald as characters composing the life of a literary icon against the emergence of “Hollywood,” O’Nan’s work is considered a bittersweet meditation on the death of an author and the hope that his work lives on.

   Source: Author’s Abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 16:08

6. The New, New, New Philology

   In this review of Rethinking the New Medievalism, Matt Cohen ponders the significance of philology’s ongoing period of “reflection, […] refraction, and revisitation.” Against the backdrop of contemporary shifts in the humanities, more generally, Cohen sees opportunities for medievalists to intervene, bringing with them both clarity and innovation to fields in a state of fluctuation.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 16:19

7. A Narrative Analysis of the Use of Social Media in SKAM

   SKAM (a Norwegian word meaning “shame”) is a Norwegian television show for teens, written and directed by Julie Andem for NRK, and had its fourth and final season in spring 2017. Each season, the show followed a different teen in an Oslo high school, and it has dealt with topics such as sexual harassment, mental illness, same-sex-relationships, drug use and Islamophobia.

   This presentation analyses how the popular Norwegian show SKAM used social media as its main narrative platform. The paper uses narratology as well as contemporary theories of distributed narrative (Walker, 2005) and transmedia narrative (Dena, 2009; Ryan, 2013) to analyse how SKAM develops storylines across multiple media. It will compare this to works of electronic literature that have pioneered similar techniques, and relate the intense engagement of fans on the official site and independent sites to fan fiction studies and to net prov. 

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 31.10.2017 - 15:41

8. Information Wants to Be Free, Or Does It?: The Ethics of Datafication

   “More is not necessarily more. Faster is not necessarily better. Big data is not necessarily better.” In the effort to capture and make available data about people, digital humanities scholars must now weigh the decisions of what and what not to share. Geoffrey Rockwell and Bettina Berendt address the new ethical issues around “datafication” in an age of surveillance.

   (Source: EBR)

   Filip Falk - 15.12.2017 - 17:48

9. #ELRFEAT: Intervista con George P. Landow (1997)

   Featured interview with George P. Landow, a professor of English and Art History at Brown University and a well-known pioneer in the study of hypertextual literature.

   Daniele Giampà - 05.04.2018 - 21:23

10. #ELRFEAT: Intervista con David Kolb (1997)

    Featured interview with David Kolb, a professor of philosophy and author of hypertext novels.

    Daniele Giampà - 05.04.2018 - 21:33

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