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DIGITAL WRITING
In just the past two decades, there has been a digital explosion in publishing technologies that has radically reshaped the literary arts. While many readers will be familiar with the straightforward applications of e-texts and audiobooks as commercial publishing tools, there is a digital underground of experimental writers whose embrace of information technology has led them to lean into this acceleration, using new media, game engines, Adobe Flash, InDesign, GarageBand, iMovie, Java Script, HTML, software for app/website development, graphic design, hypertext, computer-generated texts, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, video games, blogs, podcasts, data scrapes, A.I., and even NFTs for their composition, design, and distribution needs.
In addition, this chapter looks at evolutions in internet culture, which have changed the look and feel of reading and writing. What does it mean for writers to have search engines always at their fingertips? How will the digital humanities—through its computation of large quantities of literary data—stimulate new reading and writing practices. How do Amazon’s antitrust practices and Goodreads’ reading algorithms drive new patterns of literary consumption? And how do “extremely online” individuals navigate the networked literary community à la Twitter flame wars, MFA Draft, and Instapoetry?
Links
● Megan Boyle, selected blog posts on VICE
● John Colasacco, Poems for Brands
● Hennessy Youngman, ART THOUGHTZ: How To Be A Successful Black Artist
● Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation
● Brian Oliu, So You Know It’s Me
● Jason Nelson, selected digital creations
● Triquarterly Review, Video Essays
● Ranjit Bhatnagar, Pentametron
● Marcel Duchamp, rotorelief
● E. M. de Melo e Castro, Roda Lume
● Alison Clifford, The Sweet Old Etcetera
● Jim Andrews, Aleph Null
● Oana Avasilichioaei, “Mouthnotes”
● Christine Hume, “Walking Through and Talking Back”
● LambdaMOO programming tutorial
● Guy Maddin, Séances
● Ander Monson, personal website
● Eric LeMay, Essays on the Essay and Other Essays
● Associate Deans, Twitter handle
● Claudia Rankine and John Lucas, Situation 11
● Steve Tomasula, TOC
● Jim Andrews, assorted
● Ryan Trecartin, Re’Search Wait’S
● Pauline Masurel and Jim Andrews, “Blue Hyacinth”
● Thomas M. Disch, “Amnesia”
● Ross Goodwin, misc.
● Sarah Ridgley, Christian Bök, and Cy Twombley, Fifty Days at Iliam
