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1. Endless Text: New Media Technologies in The Raw Shark Texts

   Since the digital revolution of the 1990’s, the ‘end’ of literature has been often proclaimed from both a utopian and apocalyptic perspective. While the former has imagined a release of the literary from the constraints of paper and print, in the animation of letters and words, the latter has lamented the end of reading and writing as ‘we’ know it. However, as clear as the opposition between the hopeful visions of theorists such as George Landow and the nostalgic lament of critics like Steven Birkerts may be, their respective stances are easily disclosed as two sides of the same coin: both the positive and negative presentations of the end of literature build on the subtext that literature ‘is’ something; an inside (a space, or a practice) that is either creatively challenged or threatened from the outside – as if it were a backward country or a country under threat, to be opened up and developed or protected respectively. This paper challenges such a distinction between inside and outside by reading ‘literature’ as an interface of other media technologies.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 02.02.2011 - 15:42

2. Digital Orientalism: Japan and Electronic Literature

   Digital Orientalism: Japan and Electronic Literature: Alice Ferrebe
   In their 1995 essay ‘Techno-Orientalism: Japan Panic’, David Morley and Kevin Robins examined the contemporary construction of Japan as a potent and threatening Other, inscrutably encroaching upon the West through precocious technological genius and insidious business practices. For Japanophobes, they claimed, ‘the unpalatable reality is that Japan, that most Oriental of Oriental cultures, as it increasingly outperforms the economies of the West, may now have become the most (post)modern of all societies’. Of course, this imagining of Japan as the land of the future (a frequent cyberpunk strategy) stands in contrast to the more traditional Orientalist vision of the nation as a repository for the ancient and exotic – the Japan of an alien, exquisite aesthetic and of arcane martial practices, pre-modern rather than postmodern.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.02.2011 - 18:21

3. Senghor on the Rocks: A Georeferenced Electronic Novel

   author-submitted abstract: Senghor on the Rocks (SOTR) is the first novel that has been extensively illustrated with the help of online satellite imagery. SOTR was written in the form of a classical novel well before we developed the presented online format for publishing. Because of its linear narrative structure, the consistent first?person perspective of the text and the movement that happens throughout the text, it was very well suited for an adaption as an online "geo?novel" based upon Google Maps. The text of the novel was not changed for the online version, but every scene has been geographically referenced and the chapter structure has been adjusted for online reading habits.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2011 - 14:50

4. The Programming Era: Building Literary Networks Through Peer-to-Peer Review

   A noted literary scholar, Mark McGurl, has dubbed the postwar period in American literary history “The Program Era.” This phrase alludes to the fact that after World-War II most American literary production occurred in and around creative writing programs. Today, electronic literature continues the trend of literature’s institutionalization within higher education systems. E-lit literalizes the concept of “program” fiction inasmuch as its authors must also be adept at coding and programming. Taking the systematic coupling of literary art and higher-educational institutions as a necessary given, what can we—i.e. the authors, artists, critics, coders, scholars, students, writers and readers thinking at the interface of these social systems—do to create environments in which e-lit can flourish?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.02.2011 - 08:16

5. Between Place and Interface: Designing Situated Sound for the iPhone

   Between Place and Interface: Designing Situated Sound for the iPhone

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.02.2011 - 09:45

6. Personal Narratives, Corporate Templates

   Personal Narratives, Corporate Templates

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.02.2011 - 10:50

7. What's on your mind? Status Updates, Friend Suggestions And Data Mining

   As I'm staging my private life, confessing my current state of being through status updates and learning the peculiarities of online friendships, my very existence is being stalked and mapped by invisible algorithms. Facebook, one of the most popular and efficient pieces of social software, is tracking my posts, profiling my likes and dislikes and learning from my idle quizzes. In essence there are two profiles building, the public one I present to my “friends” and the commercial one gathering mass through data mining. Telling fictional and non-fictional anecdotes, my presentation will explore Facebook as an idiosyncratic and disciplining environment. I'll be attempting to illustrate how I train the machine and the machine trains me.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 26.02.2011 - 11:11

8. All Tomorrow's Parties

   A plenary presentation for the biennial conference of the Electronic Literature Organization focused on the circumstances of the founding of the organization and on the work of novelist Robert Coover on the occasion of his retirement from teaching, delivered in a scripted and parodic style appropriate to the subject. Co-presented with Rob Wittig.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 15:59

9. E-Poetry Triangulated

   E-Poetry Triangulated

   Patricia Tomaszek - 04.03.2011 - 23:01

10. Against Digital Poetics

    Against Digital Poetics

    Patricia Tomaszek - 04.03.2011 - 23:07

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