We seem to be approaching the end of the era we know as Industrial Civilization. If this is the case, we will leave a stable period of progress and growth and enter into a long period of decline wh ...

Design in the space between stories : design for social innovation and sustainability–from responding to societal challenges to preparing for societal collapse

This study explores possibilities for alternate modes of personal archiving in the context of contemporary techno-culture and dominant practices of personal data capture. An intensified proliferati ...

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Para-Archives: Rethinking Personal Archiving Practices in the Times of Capture Culture

Amateurs online: Creativity in a community

This article emerges from macroanalysis of several works of critical writing in the field of digital poetry, which have been documented in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. The problems addressed in this context are the self-referentiality exhibited by authors who are both practitioners and theoreticians, and the need for a wider selection of digital poems in critical discourse. The dataset consists of monographs and Ph.D. dissertations on digital poetry (1995-2015), which have been exported into visualization software. Macro and network analyses enable new debate concerning the outlined problems and new findings. My findings suggest that criticism in this domain is chiefly endogenous and that a limited number of poems is being canonized. Therefore, a meta-discourse perspective can pave the way for an external view of the field, concerning its epistemology and evolution. The dataset is available online for download and can be tested and reconsidered by other researchers. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_6

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Digital Poetry and Critical Discourse: A Network of Self-References?

Propomos que a literatura em meio digital contemporânea possui uma dimensao que chamamos de “trans-racional”, constituida pela codificacao cultural de uma imagem corporal do leitor na mesma materialidade com que se produzem objetos em meio digital. Para isso, visitamos teoricos que analisam como se constroem objetos tecnologicos e digitais e como se recebem desde uma perspectiva fenomenologica. Concluimos que a codificacao cultural do corpo no meio digital torna-se ponto de partida para que autores exercam a sua criatividade.

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Literatura em meio digital: cultura codificada e "trans- racionalidade"

The dissertation explores computational and media-based signifying strategies in electronic literature from the point of view of reading, writing, programming and design, with a focus on the rhetor ...

Talan Memmott

Papers

Digital rhetoric and poetics : signifying strategies in electronic literature