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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. #WomenTechLit

   This book of electronic literature (e-lit) brings together pioneering and emerging women whose work has earned international impact and scholarly recognition. It extends a historical critical overview of the state of the field from the diverse perspectives of twenty-eight worldwide contributors. It illustrates the authors’ scholarly interests through discussion of creative practice as research, historical accounts documenting collections of women’s new media art and literary works, and art collectives. It also covers theoretical approaches and critical overviews, from feminist discourses to close readings and “close-distant-located readings” of pertinent works in the field. #WomenTechLit includes authors from Latin America, Russia, Austria, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the US.

   (Source: Publisher's Blurb)

   Alvaro Seica - 26.10.2017 - 13:22

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. (Ghosts of) Generative Literature in Italy Between Past, Present and Future

   In 2006 Tommaso Lisa stated that since Nanni Balestrini’s Tape Mark I, not
   much has been done much to elaborate creative synergies between poetry and
   computer in Italy. In fact, the absence of Italy - homeland of Calvino, Marinetti
   and Toti - from major anthologies, collections, and exhibitions in the field of e-lit
   confirms such a bitter statement. But it is still the case? What is the current state
   of Italian electronic literature? What should be the reasons for its absence on the
   international scene? What actions are being made and what still could be made
   to spread electronic literature in Italy?

   Roberta Iadevaia - 20.11.2017 - 10:37

9. Axolotls and Perfume Bottles: Forms of Translation, Experimental Texts Rewritten As Migrations To Digital Media

   This presentation, "Axolotls and Perfume Bottles", was delivered by Strickland and Luesebrink as part of the ELO 2017 panel, "Forms of Translation: Experimental Texts Rewritten As Migrations To Digital Media". Its ELMCIP record includes a PowerPoint file with extensive embedded movies, and the script for the presentation, both exactly as delivered.

   The first portion discusses Regina Celia Pinto's work Viewing Axolotls, her transformation of Julio Cortazar's 1952 story "Axolotl", which she considers together with Gustavo Bernardo's book on Vilem Flusser.

   The second portion discusses the transformations and migrations of the authors' work To Be Here As Stone Is from print to multiple digital incarnations. The perfume bottle referenced is associated with this poem in the print version of Strickland's True North.

   Julianne Chatelain - 22.11.2017 - 06:49

10. 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

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