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Music/Sound/Noise

[…]a kind of writing, which is then retroactively revealed to have been “noisy” all along. Working from the perspective of sound as one of the “spatial arts,” future contributors to this thread might raise the question of how one should navigate through the rhetoric of noise (while filtering the noise of rhetoric). Who wants to remix this noise into pseudo-autobiographical narrative? mystory? critifiction? Why did Progressive Networks change their name to Real Networks in the year 2000? And what about the Senator from Washington state, the 42-year-old Maria Cantwell who funded her campaign with moneys cashed in from her job […]

Intersection and Struggle: Poetry In a New Landscape

[…]asserts the importance of visual aesthetics to e-poetry; and the last two lines – “grep -i code * /*” (a Unix program command) and “HTTP Error 404” (the error code for a broken link on the Web) – point to the shortcomings of traditional hypertext and the possibilities of programmed texts. If the arc from hypertext to programmable media serves as the background for Glazier’s arguments, then the main focus of the text can be derived from the larger red text. The acrostic text invites multiple readings. If “Dig[iT]al Poet(I)(c)s” is the natural first reading, then it doesn’t take long […]
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The Education of Adams (Henry) / ALAMO

[…](1985). But as early as 1981, building on Oulipo’s work on combinatory literature, the ALAMO group had been launched. JR The aim of Raymond Queneau and FranÁois Le Lionnais, when they founded Oulipo, was to unite mathematicians and writers who were interested in literary creation under formal constraints. The Oulipians, while acknowledging their “plagiats par anticipation” (lipograms, palindromes, etc.), strived to define and moreover to invent new literary forms using non-trivial mathematical structures. Among the various existing sources, Oulipians were naturally attracted to the writings of Jean Meschinot (1490) and those of Quirinus Kulhmann (1660) who tried quite early to […]

False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

[…]has said that he believes his core audience will be “younger readers used to working with web pages with multiple texts,” and he said he persuaded his publisher to serialize House of Leaves on the Internet. This is an interesting experiment because the future medium for monstrous fictions may well be electronic, where space is cheap and distribution can be world-wide. Because of its mass and excess, House of Leaves will probably make its publisher some money, but most novelists complain about decreasing outlets for experimental work like Danielewski’s. monstermedia And that’s why I want to discuss two hypertexts, Shelley […]

ebr version 1.0: Winter 1995/96

[…]and books ought to be capable of joining with digital media in the work of mapping, rewiring, renetworking the same old pool of elements in new ways (to cite the Seattle collective, In.S.Omnia, reviewed in this issue by Paul Harris). In this spirit of recombination, ebr will go on reviewing books in print (preferably before they are out of print. By taking advantage of the more streamlined electronic production process, an electronic journal should get around to covering small-press, scholarly, fringe, and other small-run titles within the period of their limited shelf life). Yet the term book in our title […]

America: The Usable Cliché

[…]of traditional Chinese stories, myths, American grade school recitations, American cultural codes of femininity, and more – acts of recitation that always take place with modifications. As he concludes that these oppositional acts of recitation never lose their attraction to the discourse of the American dream, Douglas argues the extent to which the narrators employ ideological material [by which they position themselves in the larger social body] as a language that fundamentally enables reflection, affection, and action — albeit in certain established paths and trajectories. (13) Hence, Reciting America shows a keen appreciation for the consequences of engaging in politics […]

Network Voices

How can artists working along the blurry boundary of music, sound, and noise let the language speak itself? How can they charge language with meaning to the utmost possible degree? Network Voices is an mp3 compilation that features the work of a variety of interdisciplinary artists and critical theorists playing with audio signals. This cluster of digital language investigations pursues the idea of writing as sound, writing as event, writing as experience, and writing as performative gesture. If, as Wittgenstein suggests, the self is grammatical, if it punctuates its own meaning in the space-time-matter of targeted compositional methodologies as executed […]

Metaphysics after the Western Wall Has Come Down

[…]one might ask Ferré to consider the concept with stringent logic, if only because materialist studies, Holocaust studies, and other theoretical conversations recently have raised serious and troubling issues concerning the conflation of the ethical with the aesthetic. Yet when Ferré outlines PMPO, he tends to slip from logical proof to the declarative. In the last three chapters, for example, where readers are led to expect a full working out of this ethical schema in the natural, technological, and political worlds, they get instead very general narrative summaries about space, social problems, and issues in cultural politics with statements about […]
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After the Post

[…]cultural analysis of the institution of literature. In the context of literature, Siegert joins a group of critics often lumped together under the dated and misleading term New Historicism, who examine the frequently forgotten material conditions under which modern concepts such as “novel,” “lyric,” “character,” or “literature” itself emerged. It is impossible to overestimate how radically such work has transformed literary studies. In the transmission of clay tablets in the sixth century B.C., Siegert observes the earliest manifestations of postal relays, but his study focuses on the transformation of this official system of information exchange into a system of exchange […]

A Migration Between Media

[…]the mind’s self-knowing and their inter- penetration. If God had left off speaking, once code was stated, briefly, then Rhetoric should too. The tangible world intaken: intelligible. The fact of experience, a shadow of God: the act of cognition a moment of fusion in which a thing finds its concept – and is found. This is a mind of snow in Connecticut. This is a Snow Mind knowing as if None knew. Exhilarated. Brilliant. An eagle at the breast of the whitening world. (True North 53) The emotional reduction that Gibbs the Puritan made of his life, and the material […]