The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature Contributor(s): Baldwin, Sandy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1628923385 ISBN-13: 9781628923384 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Technology & Engineering |
Dewey: 302.231 |
LCCN: 2014035873 |
Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.84 lbs) 200 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: There is electronic literature that consists of works, and the authors and communities and practices around such works. This is not a book about that electronic literature. It is not a book that charts histories or genres of this emerging field, not a book setting out methods of reading and understanding. The Internet Unconscious is a book on the poetics of net writing, or more precisely on the subject of writing the net. By 'writing the net', Sandy Baldwin proposes three ways of analysis: 1) an understanding of the net as a loosely linked collocation of inscriptions, of writing practices and materials ranging from fundamental TCP/IP protocols to CAPTCHA and Facebook; 2) as a discursive field that codifies and organizes these practices and materials into text (and into textual practices of reading, archiving, etc.), and into an aesthetic institution of 'electronic literature'; and 3) as a project engaged by a subject, a commitment of the writers' body to the work of the net. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baldwin, Sandy: - Sandy Baldwin is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University, USA. He is a teacher, critic, theorist, and artist working with electronic literature and new media. He has edited five volumes of essays on electronic literature. He regularly performs and stages interventions in virtual environments and computer games. |