- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Literary Criticism
Full Description
Winner of the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature from the Electronic Literature Organization
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.
The Internet Unconscious describes the poetics of the net's "becoming-literary," by employing concepts that are both technically-specific and poetically-charged, providing a coherent and persuasive theory. The incorporation and projection of sites and technical protocols produces an uncanny displacement of the writer's body onto diverse part objects, and in turn to an intense and real inhabitation of the net through writing. The fundamental poetic situation of net writing is the phenomenology of "as-if." Net writing involves construal of the world through the imaginary.
Contents
Introduction
Foreword by Francisco J. Ricardo
I
As if I wrote the Internet.
The Great Beyond
Weapon body
Crust
II
For example
oooo ooooooooo
OMG LOL
Leet or 1337
III
Survivable Communication
Ping Poetics
Traceroute
Urgent interruption
Somatolysis
IV
Lovers of Literature
Handshakes
Binding the Subject
Chmod -777
Read/Write/Execute
V
Consumed by the net
The Crowd of Electronic Writers
Debts and Obligations
Axiomatics
The Literary Community
VI
I read my spam
PLEASE REPLY MY BELOVED
CAN SPAM
The End of Spam
End-to-End
VII
Logging in and getting off
CAPTCHA
Taking the Test
The difference thought makes
VIII
Plaintext
March 11, 1968.
Character and Glyph
Extreme Rendition
Plaintext Performance
One Time Pad
Friend Request
IX
Bodies never touch
Pervy Intimate Avatars
Passion of the Avatar, Avatar of Passion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
