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Aesthetics of
Lying. Faked Websites and Hoaxes by Roberto
Simanowski [German]
While in the
literature the end of the apolitical and
self-centered pop culture has been declared, on the
net a kind of polit-pop has been developing, which
does good things with bad means: faked websites,
where disinformation is spread, and artists pretend
to be representatives of important political
institutions. Swindle for the sake of
enlightenment, media competence, and teaching
people to be suspicious. It all starts by ordering
the right URL.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/07/17-Simanowski
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Writing With the
Code - a Digital Poetics by Søren Pold
[English]
The reader as
object to object oriented programming, which reads
her reading. Old techniques in commercial websites
can be used in digital narration as well. Pold
talks about a poetics of objects and their
interaction, and about the things behind links and
interface (Etoy's Hijacking, Jodi's deconstructive
browser). His conclusion: digital literature aims
at interpretation and revealing of the code, as "a
critical investigation into the computer".
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/07/15-Pold
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Discourse
Timer by Markku Eskelinen and Raine
Koskimaa [English]
From spatial
hypertext to temporal cybertext - towards a new
poetics of digital narration. Eskelinen and
Koskimaa go beyond the classical concept of linkage
and develop a rhetoric of TDHTML (temporally
dynamic HTML). This article outlines a list of
simple functions that allow a very complex temporal
manipulation of narrative digital texts and
describes a set of authoring tools, Discourse
Timer, which is specifically designed to employ
these functions.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/05/29-Esk-Kosk
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Digital
Literature - an Introduction by Roberto
Simanowski [German]
A new
competition for digital literature has been
announced. Two important representatives of the old
and the new medium - DTV and T-Online - are
awarding prizes for the best contributions. Roberto
Simanowski takes the opportunity to provide short
answers to questions raised by such an event:
terminology, definitions, characteristics, typology
or criteria for evaluation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Simanowski-31-Maerz
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Literary
Hypertext. The Passing of the Golden Age by
Robert Coover
[German]
Still so unknown and already over? "In terms of new
serious literature, the Web has not been very
hospitable. It tends to be a noisy, restless,
opportunistic, superficial, e-commerce-driven,
chaotic realm, dominated by hacks, pitchmen, and
pretenders, in which the quiet voice of literature
cannot easily be heard or, if heard by chance,
attended to for more than a moment or two.
Literature is meditative and the Net is riven by
ceaseless hype
and chatter." Robert Coover's important essay now
in German translation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Coover-01-Feb
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The Hidden Text:
Aspects of Digital Images von Roberto
Simanowski [Deutsch]
How does the
hidden text in the html-source and image-files
affect the image's appearance and meaning? What is
this text's role within the primary and secondary
signification? How is one to develop a hermeneutic
of hidden text and its included interaction?
Simanowski approaches these question from within
the context of Schreibers Epos of the Machine
and Huppert's image animations.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Simanowski
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