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Electronic Literature Conference

Andrew Klobucar and I have just come back from the Electronic Literature Organization
conference in Vancouver WA this past weekend where 120 artists and
scholars met to present and talk about electronic literature. Hosted by

Of course, we are not wondering why that plunger is on Jon's face; more to the point, our surprise actually derives from our wondering why we are not wondering why that plunger is on Jon's face, and in that question lies the particular anxiety currently inscribing our interactions, both on-screen and off-screen, today.

From: garfield minus garfield

NEGATION RELATED TO ALTERITY IN CYBERSPACE AND MATERIAL LIFE

THAT “there’s no other to cyberspace, no air anywhere”

THAT “the body appears to breath, its organs duplicated everywhere, laminated across the constructed world”

THAT “the invisible as the defined excluded, ‘excluded’ from the field of visibility and ‘defined’ as excluded”

THAT “there’s a mass psychosis underway, as if being offline meant you’re somehow deficient, in education, worldliness, style, income, and geographic location”

the animals already know by instinct we’re not comfortably at home in our translated world. Rilke, Duino Elegies, First Elegy    For a dip in a new streaming digital project, go to Tributaries at TCR.

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progress on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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expense of printing what will be a 350+ page issue. Yeah, it’s gonna be BIG!
Crayon 5 elucidates the difficulties of reflecting on beauty and the limits of presenting in language beauty and ugliness. Its dialogue of twenty-five essays is accompanied by sixteen brilliantly complementary and contradictory book reviews, creating anintensively complex provocation and irreducible call for continuing discussion on whatthe art of poetry and of community will be.

Behold the Lexicographer: "slave of science, the pioneer of literature" | Jargon of Eden

The emergence of lexicography as a formal practice and discipline in the mid-18th century helps us interpret two interrelated issues in modern epistemology: 1. the evolution of applied analysis and aesthetic modelling as modes of knowledge, and 2. the growing dependence of knowledge upon media and communication technologies.

Fishing for Further SuggestionsCultureNet faculty are always bending the spines of books and scrolling through online publications - new and old - that speak to our shared interest in the ways that technology gets around to shaping us and us technology. A few titles recently traded between CNET faculty include:Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, Steel (1997)Andrew Feenberg's Transforming Technology

 The "pages" of this blog aim to explore contemporary developments in knowledge technologies, specifically the various tools and methods emerging within the Digital Humanities to help quantify, assess and analyze information. There's currently an impressive amount research and experimentation within this field, much of it covering a wide variety of professional disciplines and areas of cultural production. The questions linking such work, however, are quite fundamental: