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1. Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation

   Currently in game and digital culture studies, a controversy rages over the relevance of narratology for game aesthetics. One side argues that computer games are media for telling stories, while the opposing side claims that stories and games are different structures that are in effect doing opposite things. One crucial aspect of this debate is whether games can be said to be "texts," and thereby subject to a textual-hermeneutic approach. Here we find the political question of genre at play: the fight over the games' generic categorization is a fight for academic influence over what is perhaps the dominant contemporary form of cultural expression. After forty years of fairly quiet evolution, the cultural genre of computer games is finally recognized as a large-scale social and aesthetic phenomenon to be taken seriously. In the last few years, games have gone from media non grata to a recognized field of great scholarly potential, a place for academic expansion and recognition.

   Scott Rettberg - 09.07.2013 - 00:24

2. ix: visual exercises

   ix: visual exercises

   Cheryl Ball - 20.08.2013 - 11:40

3. The Frontiers between Digital Literature and Net.art

   My aim is to show how the frontiers between the various disciplinary spheres are disappearing in the digital world. Therefore, to start with, the basic aspects of what is known as digital art are set out and are compared with the concepts of Roland Barthes on the post-modern text. In this way a relationship is established between the discourses on Net.art and digital creation on the Net and theoretical postulates on hypertext and Net.literature. Next the results of this comparative reflection are applied to a visual experience: letting a series of online works speak, grouped together in a particular classification, in order to see whether or not the theoretical model constructed is valid. Finally, I pose questions about this experience by highlighting the implications of the construction of new contexts in real time in the sphere of literary and artistic creation.

   (Source: Author's abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 22.08.2013 - 11:34

4. Unusual Positions: Embodied Interaction with Symbolic Spaces

   A discussion of poetic installation artwork with physical or embodied interfaces.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.08.2013 - 15:05

5. A Hacker Manifesto

   A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world--for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data.

   A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. This vexed ground, the realm of so-called "intellectual property," gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one that pits the creators of information--the hacker class of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers--against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces.

   J. R. Carpenter - 01.10.2013 - 14:38

6. Ex libris: medierealistik litteratur, Paris, Los Angeles & cyberspace

   Ex libris: medierealistik litteratur, Paris, Los Angeles & cyberspace

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 17.04.2014 - 15:33

7. Literatura digital: el paradigma hipertextual

   This book introduces and defines the new field of digital literature, answering to the question of the introduction of hypertext if it has suposed a reconfiguration of the literary paradigm in all its areas: theoretical, creative and educational. The theory, ideology and politics of hypertext are examined from a view of a theory of the hypertextual links, which proposes an original typology that is used as a tool for the analysis of literary digital texts (Source: Aurea Library) (Translated by Maya Zalbidea Paniagua).

   Maya Zalbidea - 07.08.2014 - 21:21

8. Literatura y cibercultura

   There are not few questions and crucial problems that the theoretical and comparative reflection should face trying to keep certain relevance in the areas of humanities and social sciences in the globalization era: What type of social subject is conforming this new communicative context? What new forms of literary textualities are the digital media spaces conceiving?

   Maya Zalbidea - 18.08.2014 - 20:10

9. alire 12

   alire 12

   Jonathan Baillehache - 10.09.2014 - 20:15

10. Digital Poetry and Collaborative 'Wreadings' of Literary Texts

    Digital Poetry and Collaborative 'Wreadings' of Literary Texts

    Alvaro Seica - 05.05.2015 - 14:45

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