Editing E-Lit Wiki

[[File:Elit_web.png|200px|thumb|right|For further reading, refer to [http://www.lulu.com/shop/ucla-elit/e-lit-what-is-it-revised-expanded-ucla-edition-v201-10317-315-345pm/paperback/product-23358123.html]]][[What]] is [[see also: nothing?|not]] [[electronic]] literature today? Rather than introduce electronic literature or “e-lit” as a [[distinct]] literary [[category]], ELIT WIKI wonders if it’s still possible to consider literature [[beyond]] the electronic circuits that characterize the networked present. The [[creation]] and study of literature today is facilitated by a range of [[digital]] formats and networked [[consoles]], each of which introduce [[new]] [[practices]] of production, [[circulation]], [[reception]], and [[reading]]. Alongside these [[transformations]], this wiki explores a range of new literary genres inhabiting, for example, [[computer]] scripts, image [[macros]], flash movies, [[social media]], [[hypertext]] [[bandcamp]] [[releases]], [[interactive]] applications, and print on demand [[Analysis of Diana Hamilton's Dreams|books]]. Thinking through the present, ELIT WIKI examines the history and future of literature through the everyday experience of computers and electronic devices. From the history of digital poetics to recent [[internet publications]], we track the [[development]] of [[literature]] [[under the influence]] of [[computation]] up to works published in the [[present]], as they emerge online. In lockstep, this wiki considers the category of “electronic literature” as a way to [[think]] about historical works remediated to the internet, in a wide range of [[(post-)]]digital formats. The wiki features short pages in an open format, which may be [[critical]] or [[creative]] in form, [[developed]] in [[conversation]] with the editors. No previous experience in [[programming]], [[poetry]], or literature is [[required]] to read these [[pages]].

This wiki surveys the development and current state of electronic literature, from the popularity of hypertext fiction in the [[1980's]] to the present, focusing on a [[range]] of emergent genres. It also [[discusses]] the central critical [[issues]] raised by electronic literature, pointing out that there is significant overlap with the [[print tradition]]. At the same time, the essay argues that the practices, texts, procedures, and processual nature of electronic literature require new critical [[models]] and new ways of [[playing]] and [[interpreting]] the works. E-Lit WIki is not a systematic attempt to [[survey]] and summarize the [[fast]]-changing field of electronic literature, artists, [[designers]], writers, critics—instead, it imagines itself a [[playful]] [[engagement]] with the forms and [[platforms]] of the present. (See [http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html Hayles, 2007])[http://members.cafepress.com/editdesign/111448880]