Digital Poetics

‘The Anti-Logos Weapon’: Excesses of Meaning and Subjectivity in Mezangelle Poetry

by Sally Evans

Published in Cordite Poetry Review, volume 36.

Archive Fever in a Typingspace: Physicality, Digital Storage, and the Online Presence of Derek Motion

by Sally Evans

Published in Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 11, no. 1

This paper analyses the divergences between Derrida's notion of the archive and hypermedia theory as it emerges in the... more This paper analyses the divergences between Derrida's notion of the archive and hypermedia theory as it emerges in the late twentieth century through the writings of George P. Landow. The online presence of Australian poet Derek Motion is examined in order to demonstrate the distinction between the physicalised archive and the virtual electronic space of hypertexts, and to explicate some of the issues of legitimacy that exist around electronic texts

Cyberdylan: A Poet in the Electric Age

by Ivan Phillips

This was originally presented as a paper at the Dylan Thomas Symposium, The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, in July 2000. It was subsequently printed, in a slightly different form and under a different title, in The Times Literary Supplement:

Phillips, Ivan (2003) 'I sing the bard electric – Dylan Thomas, a poet for the age of mass media'. The Times Literary Supplement. 19 September. 14-15.

"Let’s do a Gertrude Stein on it": Caroline Bergvall and Iterative Poetics

by Jacob Edmond

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 3.2 (2011): 37–50.

Caroline Bergvall’s practice addresses what I call the iterative turn in contemporary culture. This turn encompasses... more Caroline Bergvall’s practice addresses what I call the iterative turn in contemporary culture. This turn encompasses poets’ use of pre-existing material and theorists’ treatment of gender, culture, and text as constituted by repeated acts. Bergvall extends Stein’s iterative writing into other forms of iteration, including performance; translation; presentations in multiple media or versions; archival, serial and conceptual forms; and the rewriting of historical texts. By placing bodily gesture at the intersection of multiple linguistic and technological mediations, Bergvall offers an alternative to existing iterative theories––one that recognizes not just the infinite possibilities of iteration but also each singularly embodied instantiation.

KEYWORDS
• multimedia • British, French, Norwegian poetry • performance • poetics •
repetition • translation • embodiment • contemporary art

A sample section from the article is available for download here.

Proyecto final de Tesis: Literatura Digital en Colombia.

by Alejandro Corredor Parra

La literatura digital es un fenómeno literario reciente cuyo desarrollo se relaciona estrechamente con la evolución de... more La literatura digital es un fenómeno literario reciente cuyo desarrollo se relaciona estrechamente con la evolución de los computadores personales iniciada en 1970. Se trata de un género literario de obras (poéticas, narrativas o dramáticas) que se caracterizan por tener contenidos multimediáticos (texto, imagen, sonido y vídeo), requerir altos niveles de interactividad, recurrir a enlaces asociativos (links) entre fragmentos de información para su desenvolvimiento. Estas características hacen que estos textos deban ser escritos o construidos desde una plataforma digital (como por ejemplo un computador) para ser leída desde otra plataforma igualmente digital.

Dado este carácter de reciente afloramiento, la literatura digital es un campo de investigación con muy poco estudio que se concentra en su mayoría en países con un alto nivel de progreso tecnológico. ¿Qué pasa entonces con esta categoría literaria en países “en vías de desarrollo”? ¿Cómo es la literatura digital en Colombia?¿Cuáles son sus representantes? ¿Qué se ha escrito? ¿Qué características tienen estas obras? Y aún más importante ¿Cómo las obras de literatura digital colombianas se relacionan, ya sea desde la convergencia o desde la divergencia, con la teoría de este género? Con estas preguntas en mente, el proyecto “Literatura Digital en Colombia” busca recolectar, organizar y ofrecer información sobre la literatura digital escrita en Colombia o por colombianos desde 1990 hasta el 2010. Asimismo, busca constituirse como un primer intento de realizar una historiografía de dicho tipo de literatura en Colombia, al relacionar y comparar su desarrollo y características con obras canónicas de este mismo tipo y la teoría de este género.

Sometimes Whole: Gathering Isles, Disrupted Centers and Occupying Forces in Juliana Spahr’s and Eliot Weinberger’s Post 9/11 Poetics

by Sophie Mayer

This is an essay about listing, considering the new mediated forms of aggregation and syndication as poetic and... more This is an essay about listing, considering the new mediated forms of aggregation and syndication as poetic and rhetorical forms and tropes, occurring specifically when poetry enters into the political. It is grounded in a belief that this is an arena where poetry belongs and where it can motivate change because both language and form are freighted with the political. It therefore enquires whether, in an age of simultaneity (as Fredric Jameson has argued), linear narrative is either possible or productive as a method of encountering and describing the events that surround us in the moment.