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Minding the Electronic Literature Translation Gap

[…]contemporary reader. In this case, we sought to take into account the layered model of platform studies (Bogost and Montfort 2009) that allows a more detailed theoretical engagement with the one new dimension, the computational dimension, of electronic literature. Specifically, this model distinguishes reception, interface, form/function, code, and platform levels, explaining how each interrelate ant that context is connected to each. As Pressman did, we also discussed how the translation process for electronic literature specifically intersects with other contextual issues: In traditional works, the translator is often invisible, a background figure, sometimes subtly credited or even not mentioned at all. […]
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The Metainterface of the Clouds

[…]Press, 1996. Coover, Roderick. “The Digital Panorama and Cinemascapes.” In Switching Codes; Thinking through Digital Technologies in the Humanities and Arts, edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover 199-217. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Coover, Roderick, and Scott Rettberg. Toxi•City: A Climate Change Narrative. 2014, 2017. http://crchange.net/toxicity. CR Change Production. Hansen, Miriam Bratu. “Benjamin’s Aura.” Critical Inquiry 34, no. 2 (2008), http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/529060, 336-75. Hu, Tung-Hui. A Prehistory of the Cloud. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: The MIT Press, 2015. Jackson, Shelley, Snow – a Story in Progress, Weather Permitting. 2014-. https://www.instagram.com/snowshelleyjackson/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/25935290@N04/sets/72157639539497175, 2014-. Morris, Jeremy. “Sounds in the […]

The Social as the Medium: A Review of Johanna Drucker’s The General Theory of Social Relativity

[…]a complex non-linear view of the atomic world through the wave/particle duality, highlighting the codependence between observing apparatus and observed object. The notions of probability, quantum codependence, quantum entanglement and general relativity provide the fundamental analogies and metaphors for extrapolating from nuclear physics and astrophysics into the social field. Drucker’s appropriation of notions from the general theory of relativity and from quantum mechanics to describe the social medium can be summarized in two formulations: a) social spacetime (“social atmosphere” is the concept used in the GTSR) is relationally constituted as a field of interactions whose agents are brought into being […]
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Essays from the Arabic E-lit Conference

[…]Thus, this gathering positions the authorship of electronic literature as threefold: an author or group of authors who initiate creation, the technology which makes significant cognitive decisions in the production of the work, and a readership that alters the work as they read and engage on a sensory level. All in all, this gathering is designed to immerse electronic book review readers into the discussions and debates that occurred at and surround the 2018 Arabic E-lit Conference in Dubai. As such, it is crucial that I end by reminding our readers that the ebr began and continues as an open-source […]

Algorithm, Thought, and the Humanities:A Review of Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious

[…]does not imply free will but rather the implementation of behaviors programmed into the genetic code” (25). This definition of cognition as related to choice allows Hayles to distinguish between what she calls cognizers and noncognizers (30): “On the one side are humans and all other biological life forms, as well as many technical systems; on the other, material processes and inanimate objects” (30). As she explains, “The crucial distinguishing characteristics of cognition that separate it from these underlying processes are choice and decision, and thus possibilities for interpretation and meaning. A glacier, for example, cannot choose whether to slide […]
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Lines of Sight: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a System (Organism, Poem, or Otherwise)

[…]disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy, film and media, cultural studies, religious studies, cultural geography, and anthropology. This vibrant area of research and teaching  falls under the umbrella term “the environmental humanities.” [2] That said, there is certainly much more to discuss vis a vis Wolfe’s engagement with Luhmann via Stevens, Derrida, Heidegger, Maturana and Varela, etc. [3] This is a concept that repeats in Stevens’s “Connoisseur of Chaos,” with the opening stanza: “…A great disorder is an order. These / Two things are one…” (CP 215). [4] As A. Seidenberg writes in “The Ritual Origin of the Circle and […]
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Sound at the Heart of Electronic Literature

[…]and slapstick. Under language speaks to both the necessity to notice how writing intersects code, and the consequences of a collision (collusion?) when poetry meets code. So, “under language” underlies and infuses Under Language, which is, fundamentally, a generative textual work, meant to be experienced visually, on the screen. But the brilliance of this work is Moultrop’s sonification of the underlying five layers of computer code. The first is a series of computer-voiced renditions of ActionScripts programmed by Moultrop that operate the work. The second layer is a series of ambient recorded collages of tunings across radio broadcasts. The third […]

E-Lit’s #1 Hit: Is Instagram Poetry E-literature?

[…]26 August 2018. https://nickm.com/post/2018/08/a-web-reply-to-the-post-web-generation/ NPD Group. “Instapoets Rekindling U.S. Poetry Book Sales.” https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/2018/instapoets-rekindling-u-s–poetry-book-sales–the-npd-group-says/ 2018. Nacher, Anna. “The Creative Process as a Dance of Agency: Shelley Jackson’s Snow: Performing Literary Texts with Elements,” in Digital Media and Textuality: From Creation to Archiving, ed. Daniela Côrtes Maduro. Bremen. 2017. Reed, Rob. “Everything You Need to Know About Emoji.” Smashing Magazine. 14 November 2016. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/character-sets-encoding-emoji/ Rettberg, Jill Walker. “A Network Analysis of Dissertations About Electronic Literature.” Paper presented at the 2013 Electronic Literature Conference. Paris. http://conference.eliterature.org/sites/default/files/papers/Jill-Walker-Rettberg-A%20Network%20Analysis%20of%20Dissertations%20About%20Electronic%20Literature.pdf Rettberg, Scott. “Room for So Much World: a Conversation with Shelley Jackson.” EBR. 6 January 2019. https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/room-for-so-much-world-a-conversation-with-shelley-jackson/ […]
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Climate Bot Panegyric: An Interview with Nigel Leck

[…]reads through and finds the appropriate match. LS: What did you use to author the bot? NL: I just coded in Java. LS: Are you willing to share your code? NL: No, sorry. A number of people asked, but they wanted to use it for the opposite intent. Happy to send bits of the bot that would be useful in themselves but not really the bot itself. There were a number of people asking to buy it, and I think that was really why it was shut down in the end. Some people thought I had stepped over a line […]
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Amphibia: Infrastructure of the Incomplete

[…]social problems, fill educational voids, and offer disaster relief in the built environment. The group’s social platform marries collaboration, education, environmental responsibility, and architecture. The ideals funded and promoted by Architecture for Humanity are wholly opposed to the totalitarian ideologies promulgated by the Pinochet dictatorship that systematically organized the torture of more than thirty thousand citizens and the disappearance of at least fifteen hundred. In submitting their proposal to the Open Architecture Challenge, then, AGC sought support from a nonstate, nonprofit entity committed to rebuilding and empowering communities in the wake of disaster. The reappropriation of this site of torture […]