Comedies of Separation: Toward a Theory of the Ludic Book
To date, small effort has been given to create a general critical vocabulary for describing the wide range of digital literary works. This paper attempts to describe a range of effects in digital literature—relating to time, power, scale, duplicatio…
Read MoreThe Literary and the Computational: A Conversation with Nick Montfort
James J. Brown, Jr., interviews author, programmer, critic Nick Montfort about his work as president of the Electronic Literature Organization and multiple projects including Curveship (and Interactive Fiction authoring tool) and the new volume of th…
Read More4k Formalism: An Interview with Ian Bogost
Aaron McCollough interviews author, programmer, and critic Ian Bogost about his recent book of “machined haiku” (including a game poem programmed by Bogost for the Atari 2600 VCS) and about the intersection of poetics and games studies more broadly.
Read MoreWYSIWYG Poetics: Reconfiguring the Fields for Creative Writers and Scholars
This article addresses a selection of accomplishments from RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry/Literature & Culture. Reconfigurations cultivates a vigorous blending of conventional and non-conventional forms of communication. Our work turns upon generative contradictions. We are both outside of established institutional hierarchies of process and production (we are online in the form of a blog) and we are the epitome of such systems (we are peer-reviewed). We seek to gather and present a judiciously selected diversity of genres/modes and forms of discourse. We exist as a dynamic space for readers, artists, writers, and scholars invested in tradition and innovation. Such dedication to both/and, such inclusion of opposition, is required by our project of reconfiguration.
Read MoreTwo Future Binaries
This article chronicles the transition of the well-established online poetry journal Jacket to archival status hosted at the University of Pennsylvania and the parallel launch of a successor publication, Jacket2. The author addresses the new journal
Read MoreSome Thoughts on Poetry and Pornography as Experimental Twins
It is commonplace that pornography is the avant-garde of all media. When new technologies arise, the pornographers are there first, too. Every time there has been a significant shift in marketplace rules, even if the technology is broadly unchanged, t…
Read MoreEditor’s Note [14.2]
Digital publishing—loosely defined—has had a remarkable impact on the world of poetry and poetics. This shouldn’t be surprising, of course. “The digital” has transformed nearly everything. Why should anything be spared? In the minds of many, …
Read MoreIdentifier and Metadata Standards for e-Commerce—Responding to Reality in 2011
This paper looks at the reality of implementation of e-commerce standards in the book and journal supply chains, and at where the barriers are to more widespread implementation. It compares this with the situation in other media, and looks at some of t…
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