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Newsletter DECEMBER '99
7/1999 (1.Jg. / Nr. 7) - ISSN 1617-6901

Die Ordnung des Erinnerns (German)

Simanowski deals with internet and memory, data-darwinism, and data-manipulation, introduces two collaborative writing projects ("Generationenprojekt" and "23:40" - look at the presentation in the section "text-image-net-projects"), and argues that the aim of collective memory writing projects is to forget. [>>>Abstract]
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/30-Dez-99

Generationenprojekt (German)

Jan Ulrich Hasecke's "Generationenprojekt" - a collaborativ writing project, that collects stories about private experiences in 1950-99.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/30-Dez-99/Generationenprojekt.htm

23:40 (German)

Guido Grigat's "23:40" - a collaborativ writing project, that collects stories about, from, and for every minute of an abstract day, which only can bee seen on the net in that particular minute.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/30-Dez-99/23-40.htm

'Quibbling,' or Riddling the Reader (English)

Bernd Wingert's report on a reading experiment that performed three reading tasks regarding Carolyn Guyer's hyperfiction: compiling the narrative by reading, capturing certain phenomena and peculiarities in the reception process, and deciphering the effects of "technology." Three different kinds of reading (by subject; by traversing; by assembling) were performed and are described in this article. [>>>Abstract]
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Autoren/Wingert/24-Dez-99

Zur Lage der Forschungsliteratur - eine Leseerfahrung (German)

Christoph Rauwald's comments on printed and online scholarship about digital literature and emphatically promotes an open discourse about digital literature, one which takes into account different research results and avoids the American 'colonialisation' of the topic.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Autoren/Rauwald/22-Dez-99

Himmel & Hölle. Cyberspace - Realität im 21. Jahrundert (German)

Roberto Simanowski's essay takes a look into the future and discusses the pros and cons of Virtual Reality, as concerning visualisation, cybersex, multiple identity, simulation ... An excurse into the debate surrounding mass-literature in 18th century as well as the introduction of film reveals the continuity of admonition in media discourses. An excurse into Pascal and the early Romantics reveals the continuity and anthropological rationale of the desire for entertainment. [>>>Abstract]
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/18-Dez-99

hyperfiction (German)

Anja Rau's review of "hyperfiction. Hyperliterarisches Lesebuch: Internet und Literatur" (ed. by Beat Suter and Michael Böhler) is a survey of both the content and technique of this CD-ROM accompanied book.
http://www.dichtung-digital/Rau/17-Dez-99/Rau_SuterBoehler.htm

Interview with Espen Aarseth (English)

Roberto Simanowski talked to Espen Aarseth about the rapid expansion of research and development of curricula, funded by Norwegian government, in the field of hypertext, and the needs and problems of classification and categorization. He learnt why hypertext is not a technology, but rather a dream of a technology, why MUDs are something else than storytelling, and to what extent the distinction between art and commerce is itself thoroughly commercial.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Interviews/Aarseth-16-Dez-99

HT 1999 (English)

Bernd Wingert's "Back to the Roots" is a detailed review on the 10th ACM Hypertext Conference, which convened in Darmstadt in February 1999. It reports on such different issues as generating glossary links in a semi-automatic mode, adaptive hypermedia systems, conditional linkage, visualization of relationships, and gives a helpful survey of various theoretical approaches to the reading of hypertext-based literature. The review also repeats some of the questions we all carry around: How to bridge the chasm between writers and designers? Doesn't the labyrinthine reading situation with hypertexts make readers, as David Durand put it, like rats running through a tunnel and hunting for "juicy information"?
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Autoren/Wingert/14-Dez-99

Hypertext in Russia - Interview with Inna Kouper (English)

Roberto Simanowski talked to Inna Kouper about the physiognomy of the Russian net, hypertextual works about the Russian mentality, such as Dmitry Galkovsky's hypertext "Endless dead-end," the nineteenth-century Russian equivalent of Raimond Queneau, N. Markevich, and the mistaken conclusion that postmodern theory is the basis for hypertext.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/12-Dez-99
 


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