Duke Professor N. Katherine Hayles endeavors to illustrate the context of electronic literature, and thereby its true significance. Electronic literature’s context has two aspects: (1) The printed literary tradition that electronic literature derives from, and (2) The new technology enabling the means and nature of electronic literature. The latter affects how literary communities are …
Category Archive: Paradigmatic shift
Mar 01
Into the Wild: The Re-Inspired Writing Process
Virginia Woolf made a big deal about having a room of her own. But wireless mobility is pushing writers into wider environments, not only transforming the relationship between writers and their means of research and expression, but that expression itself. “Writing in the Wild, A Paradigm for Mobile Composition” discusses the value and possibilities …
Feb 01
New Perspectives: The Dawning of Digital Scholarship
What is language? Everything, for people. We are symbolic creatures; forging meaning from phenomena is what differentiates us from algae and badgers. Language is our mode of encapsulating and transmitting that meaning. Researchers are now able to analyze our intellectual products–such as literature, and the ways language is used in various disciplines–because of digital tools, …
Jan 25
The Non-Stuff of DisneyLands: Sustaining Attention in an Information Saturated World
In his essay, The Economics of Attention, Richard Lanham examines the evolving modalities of our world as it quickly habituates itself towards digitalization. Our physical world is dissolving into a non-reality of subsidized dairy cows picturesquely grazing in Swiss countrysides, of reserving Mt. Everest to challenge its iconic human inhospitality. As our world became …