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Electronic Literature and the Mashup of Analog and Digital Code
This essay examines the complexity of contemporary electronic literary practice. It evaluates how electronic literature borrows from, and also influences, the reception of the textual message in other forms of communication that efficiently combine image, sound and text as binary data, as information that is compiled in any format of choice with the use of the computer. The text aims to assess what it means to write in literary fashion in a time when crossing over from one creative field to another is ubiquitous and transparent in cultural production. To accomplish this, I relate electronic literature to the concept of intertextuality as defined by Fredric Jameson in postmodernism, and assess the complexity of writing not only with words, but also with other forms of communication, particularly video. I also discuss Roland Barthes’s principles of digital and analogical code to recontextualize intertextuality in electronic writing as a practice part of new media. Moreover, I discuss a few examples of electronic literature in relation to mass media logo production, and relate them to the concept of remix.
Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 15:17
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Dichtung Digital 40
This edition reflects upon the need of techniques to approach the ongoing upheavals taking place in today's technology-driven production of (literary) art. The contributions assembled here all discuss ways of reading cultural objects created with digital media. The objects of interest are: a computer game (Soderman), a performance of a work that houses and visualizes its literary artifacts on a website - a huge database of texts by different authors (Rettberg), default settings and electronic poetics in an age of technological determinism (Heckman), literary artifacts in between book and programmable media (Vincler), story-telling in the Gulf (Lenze), and signs in a culture of mashups (Navas). In a time when cultural objects in digital culture reconfigure the reception of their addressees, it is important to develop not only a proper understanding of the impact of these ruptures on literary communication but also an interpretation of the presented moves into the scope of scholarly discussion. Such an engagement calls for what Roberto Simanowski proposes in his contribution: "digital hermeneutics."
Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 18:42
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(Re-)Reading Moving Letters: Love Notes, Codes and Digital Curtains: A Review
(Re-)Reading Moving Letters: Love Notes, Codes and Digital Curtains: A Review
Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 19:29
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Machinic minds and posthuman bodies: the complexities of intimacy in three electronic works by Shelley Jackson
In her three electronic works, Shelley Jackson exacerbates the tension between self-writing and the diffraction of subjectivity, as she engages with a more explicit autobiographic form. Shifting from hyperfiction in Patchwork Girl (1995) to a fictionalized exercise in remembering through the scrutiny of her body parts in My Body & A Wunderkammer (1997), she eventually explores a pseudo-historiographic and documentary approach of the games she used to play with her sister in The Doll Games (2001), a work closer to an online family album of sorts. The present article purports to interrogate the preservation of the intimate in a context of public self-exposure through an archival electronic medium.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 22.05.2011 - 13:30
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RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments
The chapter focuses on the impact of so-called “ubiquitous computing” on human cognition. She analyzes the consequences of “reality mining” by RFID (radio frequency identification) tags that are currently being embedded in product labels, clothing, credit cards, and the environment. The amount of information accessible through and generated by RFIDs is so vast that it may well overwhelm all existing data sources and become, from the viewpoint of human time limitations, essentially infinite. Hayles argues for understanding the constitution of meaning as a “multi-layered distributed activity,” as a result of “context-specific processes of interpretation that occur both within and between human and non-human cognizers.”
(Source: Beyond the Screen introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 11:03
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Epistemology of Disruptions: Thoughts on the Operative Logic of Media Semantics
Jäger’s essay, going beyond the idea that transcription is a fundamental procedure of cultural semantics, reveals some of the principles that underlie the practices of cultural reconceptualizations attempting to show that and how they are characterized by an epistemology of disruptions.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 11:14
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Memory and Motion: The Body in Electronic Writing
Maria Angel and Anna Gibbs explore the new materialism of the corporeal body in electronic writing and online environments. They argue that electronic environments have a strong relationship with affective modes of communication highlighted by their appeal to sensory novelty through technological innovation—new media platforms proliferate the potentials for combining visibility with aural and tactile modes. Their essay argues for a new materialism in electronic culture, one that has serious implications for the way that we understand memory.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 11:17
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Event and Meaning: Reading Interactive Installations in the Light of Art History
Roberto Simanowski demonstrates in a close reading of two interactive in- stallations that they do not simply create an event as “a period of time to be lived through” (Bourriaud 15). Looking at Still Standing by Bruno Nadeau and Jason Lewis and Zachary Booth Simpson’s Mondrian, Simanowski maintains that these pieces do not only offer two different concepts of the interactors’ actions and hence body experiences; they also engage in a very difficult way with the issues of inter- and transmediality and thereby refer to the history of the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 11:50
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Why Digital Literature Has Always Been “Beyond the Screen”
Andrew Michael Roberts demonstrates that digital literature has always been beyond the screen. In many of the practices and framing ideas of electronic literature, he identifies recurrences of key conceptions of modernism and postmodernism such as literalization, enactment, difference, movement, etc. Nonetheless, as he argues, literature is embracing new forms of expression influenced by the evolving mediatechnological possibilities and the increased involvement of the recipient’s whole body.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 13:02
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The Gravity of the Leaf: Phenomenologies of Literary Inscription in Media-Constituted Diegetic Worlds
John Cayley reports on writing and the practice of literary art in the immersive 3D audio-visual environment of the Cave at Brown University, addressing the use of text-as-surface in a three-dimensional space. He develops a conception of new media as “complex surfaces” based on Cave writing courses to confront the relationship between language and embodiment, language and materiality—always attempting to develop a specific literary aesthetics.
(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:10
