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1. cut to fit the tool-spun course

   "cut to fit the toolspun course" includes a new gloss by the authors on the original JavaScript code. The code was originally published with some comments to assist those who might want to modify or re-use it; this version expands on those comments to explain more about the process of developing the generator and to reflect on the nature of comments and the glossing of code. This file, including comments both practical and reflective, is offered as one model for the criticism of literary works written in code.

   Scott Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 13:08

2. The .txtual Condition: Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Archives, and the Future Literary

   In 1995 in the midst of the first widespread wave of digitization, the Modern Language Association issued a Statement on the Significance of Primary Records in order to assert the importance of retaining books and other physical artifacts even after they have been microfilmed or scanned for general consumption. "A primary record," the MLA told us then, "can appropriately be defined as a physical object produced or used at the particular past time that one is concerned with in a given instance" (27). Today, the conceit of a "primary record" can no longer be assumed to be coterminous with that of a "physical object." Electronic texts, files, feeds, and transmissions of all sorts are also now, indisputably, primary records. In the specific domain of the literary, a writer working today will not and cannot be studied in the future in the same way as writers of the past, because the basic material evidence of their authorial activity — manuscripts and drafts, working notes, correspondence, journals — is, like all textual production, increasingly migrating to the electronic realm.

   Scott Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 13:13

3. Code as Ritualized Poetry: The Tactics of the Transborder Immigrant Tool

   The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a provocative mobile phone app by the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) that provides sustenance to border crossers by leading them to water and guiding them with poetry. Although the tool can be applied to any border, the chief border it has been tied to and tested on is the US-Mexico border. The EDT present the project as an artistic disruption of the tired national political theater staged at that border. The piece refocuses attention on the basic human needs of those caught in the middle of the stale and stalemated divide. For the EDT, every part of the piece participates in this disruption not merely the finished app or the poetry but the code as well. In this paper, I ask, what would it mean for the code to poetic disruption? One set of poetry for the project created by Amy Sara Carroll offers instructions for desert survival. By presenting instructions as poems, she offers one entre into reading the source code of the app as poetry. Using the methods of Critical Code Studies, I read the code of TBT in light of and as part of the poetic intervention of this complex performance.

   (Source: Author's abstract at DHQ)

   Scott Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 13:33

4. "A Visual Sense is Born in the Fingertips": Towards a Digital Ekphrasis

   In this article, the significance of the rhetorical and modern definitions of ekphrasis will be discussed through the lens of digital literature and art. It attempts to reinscribe the body in ekphrastic practice by adding touch to the abstracted visualism of the eye, and emphasize defining features of the ancient usage: orality, immediacy and tactility. What I call the digital ekphrasis with its emphasis on enargeia, its strong connections with the ancient definition, and on the bodily interaction with the work of art, conveys an aesthetic of tactility; digitalis=finger. By tracing and elucidating a historical trajectory that takes the concept of ekphrasis in the ancient culture as a starting point, the intention is not to reject the theories of the late 1900s, but through a reinterpretation of ekphrasis put forward an example of how digital perspectives on classic concepts could challenge or revise more or less taken-for-granted assumptions in the humanities. In this context ‘the digital’ is not only a phenomenon that could be tied to certain digital objects or used as a digital tool, but as an approach to history, with strong critical potential.

   Scott Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 14:03

5. The Literary And/As the Digital Humanities

   This essay introduces a Digital Humanities quarterly special issue  (7:1) on The Literary.

   Scott Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 14:07

6. Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography

   Illya Szilak interviews J. R. Carpenter in her on-going series of posts on E-Lit for Huffington Post Books.

   J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 11:54

7. Notes on the Voyage: From Mainframe Experimentalism to Electronic Literature

   Visiting Artist Talk presented by CE3C Lab at Alberta College of Art and Design, 7 February 2013.

   JR Carpenter has been using the internet as a medium for the creation and dissemination of experimental texts since 1993. In this lecture she will explore much earlier works of Electronic Literature dating back to the 1950s, setting a critical and historical context for the vibrant and experimental field that we find today. She skilfully excavates layers of computer/ communication/network history to offer insight into contemporary practices. Through commentary, analysis, historical images, and examples new and old of computer-generated texts and other non-traditional forms of writing, speaking, and interacting, this talk takes a practice-led approach to navigating the ever shifting creative, critical, and political terrain of this fast-growing form of digital-expression.

   J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 12:46

8. Подмостки цифрового повествования

   Подмостки цифрового повествования

   Natalia Fedorova - 16.07.2013 - 13:09

9. An Evolving Apparatus

   Language, in all its forms, is a key technology in defining the human. What would we be without language? Would we exist in the sense we apprehend ourselves? Could we reflect upon our existence in a structured manner, differentiating ourselves, others and things? Could we know what our urges and feelings might mean? Would we have a recognisable culture and exist in what we can identify as a society? As McLuhan proposed, language has extended the human and facilitated our evolution. We are profoundly as much a product of language as it is a product of us.

   The computer has changed language as profoundly as writing and printing before it. As a symbolic machine, a system of signs that reflexively operates upon and modifies itself, both carrying and making meaning, the computer represents a new linguistic modality. We have rapidly adopted the computer as personal companions, as extensions of ourselves. Many of us are soft-wired into the machine and the possibility of hard-wiring is being explored by artists and scientists. The computer, as a language system, has become part of us and we have become part of it.

   Simon Biggs - 29.07.2013 - 16:10

10. Tracing Russian E-Lit in Contemporary Art Scene. A Report on Russian Electronic Literature Collection at ELMCIP Knowledge Base.

    Tracing Russian E-Lit in Contemporary Art Scene. A Report on Russian Electronic Literature Collection at ELMCIP Knowledge Base.

    Natalia Fedorova - 01.08.2013 - 18:46

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