Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I’ve never been able to understand this sort of fear. Many of them are afraid of tape recorders and the idea of using any mechanical means for literary purposes seems to them some sort of a sacrilege. This is one objection to the cut-ups. There’s been a lot of that, a sort of superstitious reverence for the word. My God, they say, you can’t cut up these words. Why can’t I? William S. Burroughs interviewed by Conrad Knickerbocker (Third Mind 4). The idea for this […]
Were you at the ELO conference back in 2007, 17 years ago? It happened in College Park, Maryland. I was. I couldn’t find a photo of myself at this event, but I found myself in the attendee list. I wasn’t a speaker and I wasn’t a student, either, even though it says University of Maryland next to my name in the list. 2007 was about two years before I released the first version of Twine. I want to explain how I ended up at ELO 2007, how I became interested in electronic literature, and why I made Twine. The short […]
1. Introduction The Procedural Model has become a general theory of communication (Bootz, 2016), but it was first intended to describe and deal with digital literature (aka, e-lit). I began to think about it in 1994, and in (Bootz, 1996) I published my first paper on it, after having observed for 7 years the behavior of the works published in alire. The project has been greatly developed since this date. The Procedural Model has three purposes concerning e-lit: Compare different theories of digital literature inside the same framework. Analyze and evaluate works. Express proposals about important topics in e-lit regarding for […]
1.1 Points of view from within the model 1.2 How to show different theories from within the model In order to visualize other theoretical points of view in the procedural model, it is enough to magnify the strokes in the schema and forms considered significant and to grey out the elements neglected in the visualized point of view. One can also modify the borders of domains in order to show what part of the dispositif each position can manage within this visualization. Properties of the visualized point of view that cannot be shown on the schema are neglected because it […]