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Roberto
Simanowski's "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im
Netz" [German]
In her review,
Elisabeth Bauer considers Simanowski's book a
compendium to the current state of the art of
digital literature and its research.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Bauer.htm
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Roberto
Simanowski's "Interfictions: Vom Schreiben im
Netz" [German]
In his review,
Julian Kuecklich praises the courage of
Simanowski's book to leave gaps and emphasizes the
broad empirical base of the theoretical
discussion.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/1-Kluecklich.htm
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Loss
Pequeño Glazier's "Digital Poetics. The
Making of E-Poetries"
[English]
Strehovec's review starts with complaints: "The
stagnation and repetition of already past contents
and forms within contemporary poetry accompanies
the absence of inventive literary criticism and
theory, which in encountering contemporary poetry
does not seem to know how to develop new concepts
and paradigms". Glazier - scholar and poet - seems
to be an exception, discussing hypertext,
visual/kinetic text, and e-poetry pieces in
programmable media. His book, Strehovec resumes,
would make useful reading not only for poets of the
e-medium, but for all poets today, though, more
demanding reader may miss "consistent and pure
(literary) theory of e-poetry".
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/1-strehovec.htm
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"Formen
interaktiver Medienkunst", ed. by Peter Gendolla
a.o. [German]
This anthology
on new media focusses on interactivity instead of
intermediality or hybridity and applies mainly
sociological theory. Georg Christoph Tholen objects
to this and comments the merits and faults of the
15 contributions.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-29-Tholen.htm
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Metonymical
Mov(i)es. Lev Manovich's "The Language of New
Media" [English]
According to
Lev Manovich in New Media we have to deal with a
visual culture which is predominantly
cinematographic. And indeed, Hollywood's and
Silicon Valley's language of new media is massively
cinematographic. However, Inke Arns could not
really recognize the world Manovich is describing.
She was missing all the other aspects of New Media
as net art, media art, or net culture practices
like chatting or SMS.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/07-27-Arns.htm
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The Messager is
the Message. McLuhan's "Understanding Media"
[German]
People
considered him a populistic bletherer or a prophet
of new media studies. People accused him of
irrational arguments or praised the originality of
his thoughts, one complained his vague terminology
and one quoted him as often as possible. Today no
media theory can avoid him. And all begin with his
most famous statement: The Medium is the
Message. Roberto Simanowski has read the book again
and can explain why a woman with glasses is a "cold
medium", provided the glasses are dark.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/06-07-Simanowski.htm
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