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1. Heath, prelude to tracing the actor as network

   Traversing a variety of digital and print formats, this critical prelude introduces the possibilities of tracing the networked associations enacted in Heath by Tan Lin. The writing explores Actor-Network-Theory across platforms, considering Heath both as an actor-network in ANT terms and a coterminous mode of sociological accounting. Like ANT, Heath attempts a process of demystification through detailed description, tactical citation, assemblage, and the critical deployment of mediators and their relations, where every actor is understood as network. More directly, this paper traces the ways Heath translates diverse mediators from the digital event (the non-events) of Heath Ledger's death into an actor-network exploiting a material book format. Thus the task of the critic is to crunch the details of these manifold relations as they are situated in Heath — to describe the network enacted through Lin's ambient citations and novelistic formulations.

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   Scott Rettberg - 25.08.2014 - 10:14

2. Spanish Language Electronic Literature Seminar

   The UiB Electronic Literature Research Group is pleased to welcome SPIRE guest researcher Maya Zalbidea (Ces Don Bosco University Madrid). Zalbidea presented the Spanish Language Electronic Literature Collection (2013-2014) she has developed in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base: http://elmcip.net/research-collection/spanish-language-electronic-litera.... The collection features Spanish language electronic literature from Spain and Latin America. Interactivity, collaboration and multimodality will be highlighted as elements that authors use in works that protest social injustice, demand equal rights, and increase the reader’s curiosity. Zalbidea will also present the results of a reader response study of some works from the Spanish language e-literature collection.

   Alvaro Seica - 25.08.2014 - 17:03

3. Paratext in Digital Culture: 
Is Paratext Becoming the Story? Pasts, Presents and Futures of Paratext in Digital Culture

   In December 2012, a one-day workshop "Exploring Paratexts in Digital Contexts" was organized at the University of Bergen by the Digital Culture Research Group. The point of departure of this first workshop was paratextual theory as it was first articulated by Gérard Genette in 1987 (Seuils / English translation Paratexts. Thresholds of Interpretation 1997). This event was followed by the book Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture edited by Nadine Desrochers and Daniel Apollon (IGI Global, forthcoming Summer 2014). These two initiatives have revealed a strong interest in the academic community for appraising the potential and limits of paratextual theory in digital culture.

   
The Digital Culture and Electronic Literature Research Groups at UiB organizes this follow-up workshop Paratext in Digital Culture: Is Paratext Becoming the Story? to share ongoing research on paratextual devices, functions and strategies in digital culture and brainstorm about new research opportunities. The participants will explore further how paratext and related concepts may contribute to a better understanding of the nature and function of digital objects.

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 09:37

4. Book presentation: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

   This book explores self-representations in three modes: written, visual and quantitative, and looks
   at how these modes of self-representation are used in a digital age. The histories of written and
   visual self-representations are well known through lineages of autobiographies, diaries, memoirs
   and self-portraits, and have clear descendents in blogs and social media sites like Instagram,
   Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Quantitative self-representations also have a long history but have
   been less studied as an aesthetic and rhetorical genre. With digital media, the personal tracking of weather, travels, habits and moods is commodified through activity trackers, wearable devices
   and apps for lifelogging and productivity.
   The book, which will be published as a peer-reviewed, open access and print-on-demand book in
   the Palgrave Pivot imprint in October 2014, includes chapters on selfies, on the use of technological and cultural filters, on real-time diaries and on surveillance. For the purpose of this
   workshop, the presentation will focus on how we can understand what José van Dijck calls
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:00

5. 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

6. Reading between the lines: How paratexts shape readers’ interaction with a transmedia narrative

   My discussion presents a paratext-based model for analysis of transmedia projects that I offer in
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:09

7. In the Absence of the Publisher's Peritext

   To Genette, the basic “nature of the paratext” is functional (7). In his theoretical account, he
   presents a number of paratextual units (title, dedications, epigraphs etc.) and proofs its functionality through the analysis of respective examples. At the same time, he alerts that
   paratexts may be unproductive and notes: “from the fact that the paratext always fulfills a
   function, it does not necessarily follow that the paratext always fulfills its function well” (409).
   That said, paratexts may be dysfunctional in that a paratext does not meet the function Genette
   originally envisioned. A paratext is also dysfunctional if it is absent where it’d be expected: based
   and bound to the materiality of the book-as-object, Genette has developed a map to locate the
   types of paratexts he designates. As per Genette, a preface supposedly precedes a work and an
   epigraph shouldn’t intervene a body’s text. Likewise, the publisher’s peritext spans around and
   within the body of a work, while the epitext is located outside of a work’s material body. A paratext’s location thus defines its function.
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:23

8. Taroko Gorge: A Theory of Networked Paratext

   My talk will examine the paratextual play inspired by Nick Montfort's generative poem "Taroko Gorge," which has prompted more than two dozen adaptations and remixes of its source code.
   The poem's code is as much an object of fascination for its community of readers as the poem it outputs. What is the "paratext" in this setting? Is it the commented code directed at human readers? The two dozen adaptations? The "Taroko Gorge" meme authored by Talan Memmott? Or might it be the poetic output itself? One could think of the outputted poem as a dazzling book cover-like illustration of main story, the 131-line source code.
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:27

9. Paratext in Wittgenstein's Writings

   The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) has since 1990 engaged in building marked-up and platform independent digital corpora of Wittgenstein primary and secondary sources. One important focus is the enrichment of these resources with metadata. I will present WAB’s metadata work incl. its organization through an ontology. I will also present a tool that permits “faceted browsing” of the metadata. I will try to relate WAB’s work on metadata to issues of “paratext”.

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   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 11:04

10. Reading an Ontology as Paratext

    In his approach, Gérard Genette studies the elements of texts called paratext that are not the core of text but still influential for understanding or interpreting literature. He identified two different groups of paratext and divided them into peritext and epitext (Genette 1997). Peritext is strongly related to the author’s intention and includes elements like the title, preface, table of contents, etc. Epitext is separated from the text and consists of interviews, commentaries, letters by the author about the text, debates, etc. Both, they can guide and influence the interpretation of texts. Genette also states that paratext is very changeable, temporary fashion and can appear and disappear. In this contribution, I want arise the question whe
    ther special kinds of representing the reader’s understanding of texts can be also seen as paratext. So, is it possible to expand the borders of Genette’s definition to integrate the reader’s mind?

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    Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 11:08

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