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A Bibliography of Conceptual Writing
The first ""final"" version of a never-ending project, a bibliography of conceptual literature - not just appropriation-based conceptualism, but also relatively ""rigorous"" forms of flarf, concrete poetry and so on. Like the editors of the anthology ""I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women,"" I consider a more inclusive definition. At least in my version (and I invite other people to continue it if they can/want to), there are more than a thousand books and hundreds of authors included from different countries, nationalities, genders - as different as it is possible for now, of course. Authors are sorted alphabetically, books by the same author chronologically. More about the process and about my views on conceptualism can be found in the opening of the book. For free PDF check http: //khora-impex.com/. P.S. The file of v1.0 did not make it through Lulu printers, sorry to those of you who ordered it. This (sadly, b&w) version contains corrections and additions.
Output
An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT. The discussion of computer-generated text has recently reached a fever pitch but largely omits the long history of work in this area—text generation, as it happens, was not invented yesterday in Silicon Valley. This anthology, Output, thoughtfully selected, introduced, and edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, aims to correct that omission by gathering seven decades of English-language texts produced by generation systems and software. The outputs span many different types of creative writing and include...
On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture
On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, offers insights into collective processes of commercialisation and consumption of new media products and explores the experience and mechanisms of interactivity, convergence culture and participatory culture. Crucially, the volume also shows convincingly that, though without doubt global, digital culture and new media have their varied, specifically local facets and manifestations shaped by national contingencies. The interplay of the common subtext and local colour is discussed by the contributors from Eastern Europe and the Western world. Contributors are: Justyna Fruzińska, Dirk de Geest, Maciej Jakubowiak, Michael Joyce, Kinga Kasperek, Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Łukasz Mirocha, Aleksandra Mochocka, Emilya Ohar, Mariusz Pisarski, Anna Ślósarz, Dawn Stobbart, Jean Webb, Indrė Žakevičienė, Agata Zarzycka.
Blanks
Where everything is text, because everything is code, there is no longer one finished work, but only semi-finished products—blanks. Images, films, sounds, words—in a digital world, everything is open to being processed and reprocessed, transcoded and converted. Hannes Bajohr’s Blanks: Word Processing collects poetry made by a whole range of digital operations and shows that, from the works of Kafka and management bibles to sex advice columns and climate reports, each text provides a space from which to go on, filling in a new version, translating it into one’s own language.
The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapter...
Tactical Publishing
How to level up to the next transformative phase of publishing—with a critical methodology that transcends the dichotomy of paper and digital media production. Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital Print, Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He focuses first on the two activities on which publishing is premised—reading and writing (with an emphasis on writing machines and post-tr...
Gegenwartslyrik
Lyrik – eine Überforderung als Programm? Obgleich viele Leser_innen aufgrund ernüchternder Erfahrungen im Deutschunterricht von ihr abgeschreckt wurden, lohnt es, negative Voreinstellungen noch einmal zu überdenken. Zumindest legt diesen Schluss die aktuell sehr produktive Szene der deutschsprachigen Dichtung nahe. Ihre Ausprägungen reichen von Dialogen mit früheren Autor_innen und Texten bis hin zu konzentrierten Entwürfen auf sozialen Netzwerken wie Instagram, von hermetischen und autopoetologisch wirksamen Ästhetiken bis zu politischen Reflexionen des Anthropozän-Diskurses. Somit geht ein hoher Innovationsimpuls von der zeitgenössischen Poesie aus, den zu erforschen die Ambition des vorliegenden Bandes darstellt. Neben der Bestimmung von Tendenzen und Einordnungen finden sich in der Studie auch Einzelbetrachtungen namhafter Stimmen der heutigen Poesie wieder. Deutlich wird in allen Untersuchungen der ungemeine Möglichkeitsraum, den die Lyrik zur derzeit dynamischsten Gattung avancieren lässt.
Schreibenlassen
Alle Literatur ist heute digital, aber nicht jede weiß darum. Die Frage, in welchem Sinne von digitaler Literatur gesprochen werden kann und was daraus für das Wissen über Literatur und Digitalität folgt, animiert die Beiträge dieses Bandes. In ihnen diskutiert Hannes Bajohr Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse zwischen konzeptueller und programmierter Literatur, skizziert Poetologien und Schreibpraxen und stellt sich der Herausforderung, die Künstliche Intelligenz sowie machine learning für das literarische Schreiben darstellen. So dokumentieren die zwischen 2014 und 2021 entstandenen Texte auch die Veränderungen in der Diskussion über Literatur im Digitalen. Sie erheben Einspruch gegen ein "prometheisches Unbehagen", das die Ersetzung des Menschen durch die Maschine fürchtet und daher die Maschine nur menschlich denken kann. Welche Möglichkeiten ergeben sich stattdessen aus einer Literaturproduktion, die nicht mehr an einer anthropologischen Sonderstellung und Begriffen wie Genie oder Kreativität orientiert ist? Denn Literatur, so lässt sich hier erfahren, gibt es ohnehin nur als Verabredung.
Book Presence in a Digital Age
Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media's imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts) to accordion books (Anne Carson's Nox), from cut ups (Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes) to collages (Graham Rawle's Woman's World), from erasures (Mary Ruefle's A Little White Shadow) to mixups (Simon Morris's The Interpretations of Dreams), print literature has gone through anything but a slow, inevitable death. In fact, it has re-invented itself materially. Starting from this idea of media plural...
Loading book
"The Illusion of Speed. Skeleton screens are used in modern web applications to display 'mockups' of text, images or other content elements while the application is loading. The idea is to reduce 'cognitive load' by creating an anticipation of what is to come and an impression of the app loading faster than it actually does" (blurb on Lulu). Gregor Weichbrodt's Loading Book transfers the visual representation of this concept back to the printed page by creating a skeleton of a book's print area, showing the pages, paragraphs, and lines as well as the front matter, heading, and blurb on the back cover with stylized gray lines. On the cover, Weichbrodt draws on a second interface design of transitory temporality: the spinner, which is usually animated on the web. Both symbols are placeholders of the future that visually shape the moment of imminent change as a constant transition. What looks like an erasure of a given book is in fact generated by a Python script for a potential book yet to be written or found.
