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This article is a reflection on our experiences with co-organizing the Electronic Literature Organization’s (ELO) yearly global conference in 2021, entitled “Platform (Post?) Pandemics”, which was fully virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The article will be focused on how to understand the conference through critical data studies and will propose applying poetics and techniques from electronic literature to develop qualitative interpretations. The conference presented a wide range of literary performances, exhibitions, workshops, presentations of academic papers, and discussions that in different ways addressed (as stated in the call) how with “social media, apps, search engines and targeted advertisements, platformization […]
When addressing the modelit in my title, I might point to its partial derivation from literature via the North American college-jargon abbreviation, lit. This would briefly beg the question of what literature is, in pragmatic and Foucauldian terms: as, for example, a discourse variously determined and policed by implicated constituencies. Whatever literature is, viewed thus, comes to be determined by the discourse-based power and knowledge struggles of these constituencies. In the case of eliterature, the broader constituencies of its students, on the one hand, and its practitioners, on the other, are particularly tightly integrated, for largely historical reasons that might […]
This is an appropriate moment to systematically revisit genre theory and re-evaluate its premises and conceptual frameworks in light of emerging literary genres associated with digital technology. Since the mid-eighties of the last century, a new kind of literature that has taken advantage of computational technology began to attract the attention of literary scholars and became the subject of various literary studies. This new literature has come to be known by the designation of electronic literature, as assigned to it by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO); the first international organization in the field interested in promoting, disseminating, and investigating the […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative. My name is Scott Rettberg. I’m the director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen in Norway. Today I’m joined with Joe Tabbi. Hi, Joe. JT: Scott, hi. SR: Joe is a Professor of English at the University of Bergen, and he’s leading the Electronic Literature node at the Center. Just maybe to say a little bit about your background before we begin, Joe, you have what I would say is a fascinating and diverse background as a researcher, scholar, and publisher, which we’ll be talking […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative and algorithmic narrativity. My name is Scott Rettberg, and I’m the director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. In this podcast, I’ll have conversations with the researchers at the center, as well as other experts in the field to discuss topics revolving around digital storytelling and its impact on contemporary culture. Today, I’m here with Ashleigh Steele, a recent graduate of our master’s program in Digital Culture. Today we’re going to talk about Ashleigh’s master’s thesis on meme culture and its connection to the January […]
Anyone more than a little familiar with William Gaddis or William Gass likely knows of their long friendship. They first met at the National Book Award ceremony on April 21, 1976—Gass being one of the judges that gave the prize to J R—and when Gaddis was near death in 1998 Bill Gass was one of the last people he wanted to speak to. Unfortunately Gass received the message too garbled and too late, and that final telephone conversation never took place. Throughout their more than twenty-year friendship, they supported each other’s work in myriad ways, both publicly and privately, and they […]
William Gaddis’s J R (1975) anticipates and formally embodies the “end of history.” Popularized in Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 article (and, later, book) of the same name, the “end of history” denotes a post-Cold War landscape in which the “universalization of Western liberal democracy” would inaugurate, in Fukuyama’s view, not merely “the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such” (“End of History?” 4). J R complicates this rosy conclusion, of course, but it does a lot more than that. Published more than a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall precipitated Fukuyama’s […]
SR: Welcome to Off Center, the podcast about digital narrative and algorithmic narrativity. My name is Scott Rettberg, and I’m the Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. In this podcast, I’ll have conversations with the researchers at the center, as well as other experts in the field, to discuss topics revolving around digital storytelling and its impact on contemporary culture. Today, I’m here with Lai-Tze Fan, and we’ll be talking about gendered voice assistants, as well as Lai-Tze’s experience as a professor, editor, critic, and creator in the field of digital culture. Welcome. LF: […]
The centrality of spiritual and aesthetic themes in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions (1955), combined with its encyclopedic style, has resulted in a general tendency to filter the rest of the novel’s themes through the lens of either religion or art. Thus, critical discussions of Gaddis’s satirical portrayal of “a society too wholly reliant upon exchange value as a definitional principle” (Leise 40) have largely focused on capitalism’s degrading effect on art and religion. This is certainly an essential theme in The Recognitions, but it is only one facet of a broader, multi-levelled critique that anticipates Gaddis’s later works, particularly J […]
Before: the sense of everyone gathering for some cosmic event, like the landing of an alien spaceship (maybe like those people waiting for the spaceship they thought was traveling in the tail of the Comet Hale-Bop?). During: a sense of the world gone horribly wrong—the most fundamental things about the world out of whack—the light, the colors, the seasons, especially day and night…. But setting out from Chicago, the ‘During’ was yet to come. Following the cycles laid down by planetary motions as our solar system developed, there’s a total solar eclipse somewhere on Earth every 18 months. And we’ve […]