For further reading, refer to
[1] is
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
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.
Inspiration
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 Hayles, 2007)[2]
See Also
Paragraphs on Conceptual Wiki Posts
Concept Twitter
Alt Syllabus
Poor Bootleg
Wreading E-Lit
E-Lit Reddit: WreadIt
Post-Digital Reading Library
Post-Digital Objects
