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1. The Coding and Execution of the Author

   One seldom-discussed cybertextual typology is offered by Espen Aarseth in chapter 6 of Cybertext, "The Cyborg Author: Problems of Automated Poetics." As someone who writes using computers—and who writes entire works whose course is influenced by this use of computers—this neglected topic in cybertextual studies seems to demand my attention not only as theorist and a critic but as an author. Am I crediting my computer properly when I attribute the authorship of works that my computer helped to create? Should I give myself and my computer a "cyborg name" (like a "DJ name") for just this purpose? When I write or use a new program, or replace my computer with a faster one, am I a new cyborg and thus a different author? Should my computer have a say in the publishing and promotion of works that we authored together? And should other important and inspirational mechanisms—my CD player, for instance, and my bookshelves—get cut in on the action as well?

   Scott Rettberg - 08.07.2013 - 16:19

2. Matter of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation

   This essay argues for greater critical attention to the impact of particular development environments and programming languages on the aesthetic forms of new media productions. Examining two examples of Internet-based motion graphics for the ways they have been optimized for web delivery, the author attempts to show that medium-specific coding and design strategies in digital literature set up another signifying surface that intersects with the manifest text on the screen. In this material dimension of the text's signification, we can read the marks of the small- and large-scale technical systems in which the artwork is embedded.

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   Scott Rettberg - 09.07.2013 - 14:13

3. E-Poetry: Time and Language Changes

   E-Poetry: Time and Language Changes

   Scott Rettberg - 10.07.2013 - 14:38

4. Rhetorical Convergence: Earlier Media Influence on Web Media Form

   Rhetorical Convergence: Earlier Media Influence on Web Media Form

   Anders Fagerjord - 20.08.2013 - 10:50

5. Violence of Text

   Violence of Text

   Cheryl Ball - 20.08.2013 - 11:22

6. Codeworld

   Codeworld

   Davin Heckman - 06.09.2013 - 16:53

7. Introduction to "Codework/Surveillance"

   Introduction to "Codework/Surveillance"

   Davin Heckman - 06.09.2013 - 17:23

8. Enter the Cut-up Matrix: Some notes on Man and machines in the (Swedish) 1960’s

   This essay, focusing on a slice of Swedish prose fiction from the 1960-70's, raises some questions concerning the artificial subject, along with discussions of game theory and automation. Torsten Ekbom's "strategic model theatre" Spelmatriser för Operation Albatross [1966; Game Matrices for Operation Albatross] is the main object of study. The (often very bizarre) text fragments in this book are, fictionally, generated by a number of computers. The figures acting in this game are devoid of skeletons; they are merely bodies of information, produced by machines. In dialogue with (among others) Norbert Wiener, Lewis Mumford, John von Neumann and Marshall McLuhan, Ekbom's text is found to illustrate a broader context of cybernetics and subjectivity in the 1960's. Finally, by using the shift of epistemological dominant (described by N.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 30.09.2013 - 14:30

9. Reading Cyborgs

   Reading Cyborgs

   Maria Goicoechea - 07.10.2013 - 14:02

10. Approche du rôle de la mémoire dans la conception et la réception de quelques oeuvres en littérature numérique

    L'article analyse dans un premier temps l'impact sémiotique du souvenir et de l'oubli dans l'opération de lecture d'un hypermédia narratif. Il le fait en analysant des réactions de lecture. On constate que deux mécanismes contraires entrent en jeu : l'implication de la lecture comme signe au sein de l'œuvre, opération qui mobilise la mémoire, et un déploiement hypertextuel de l'information qui, lui, favorise l'oubli. Ces exemples montrent également l'importance du cognitif et du perceptif dans le phénomène d'interprétation. L'article propose alors un modèle sémiotiquo-cognitif de texte, dit « du texte lié » dans lequel ce qui est considéré comme texte est assujetti aux archétypes mis en œuvre par le sujet pour appréhender le dispositif de l'œuvre, y compris dans ces dimensions technologiques et communicationnelles.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 28.10.2013 - 16:56

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