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From Print to Hypertext: Digital Media and New Literary Genres in Latin(o) America

From Print to Hypertext: Digital Media and New Literary Genres in Latin(o) America. Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool. Literary Heritage and Digital Media. negotiations of existing literary genres variety of works on a continuum

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From Print to Hypertext: Digital Media and New Literary Genres in Latin(o) America

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  1. From Print to Hypertext: Digital Media and New Literary Genres in Latin(o) America

    Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool
  2. Literary Heritage and Digital Media negotiations of existing literary genres variety of works on a continuum speak back to rich Hispanic tradition of literary experimentation New media genresdon’texist in vacuum Dialogue with pre-digital literarymovements: e.g. poesía concretista; caligramas; testimonio; crónica…
  3. (New) Hybrid Forms... Twitter-poetry Electronic ballads Blog-aforismos Hypertext short stories Blognovela Novelacolectiva Hypertext short stories Hypertext documentaries Anipoemas Microrrelatos.....
  4. Twitter Poetry . Growing and popular genre Cf Jason Camlottickertext1 and tickertext2 (2010) Gavin Heaton TwitterPoetry (2007-) creative use of Twitter’s formal aspects, partic. restriction to 140 characters Cf haiku Creative use of digital aspects, partic. possibilities for re-tweetings & linking of Twitter content to other social media platforms Eduardo Navas
  5. Eduardo Navas: Poemita http://navasse.net/poemita/ individual micropoems Shared themes: new media technologies themselves; poetic medium; political statements ‘Once upon a time, a cloud became the paradigm of quantification’ time-worn literary trope classic feature of haiku: reference to the natural environment BUT tag clouds: keyword metadata quantified & visualized
  6. Electronic Ballads Argentine-Spanish author BelénGache Radical karaoke (2011) http://belengache.net re-mixes set phrases and commonplaces allows the reader-user to create re-mixes of voice, sounds, images, and special effects draws on Hispanic heritage of ballads & oral poetry AND on technologically-enabled karaoke
  7. Radical karaoke
  8. Radikal Karaoke 3 options: Ex Africa semperaliquidnovi Miradcomo Kate presume de suanillo We have no past, you have no present Pliny the Elder: Africa always brings us something new Kate Middleton-mania... Intertextual reference to punk...
  9. Radikal Karaoke V6: slaves; trapped in system of corporate capitalism Text: ‘nosotros somos los protagonistas’ V4: hyponotizedbyconsumerism, slavetotechnology… Userinterpellatedintothesystem
  10. Blog-Aforismos Navas’sMinima MoraliaRedux (2011-) http://minimamoraliaredux.blogspot.co.uk/ re-mixes and visualizes Adorno’sMinima Moralia: ReflexionenausdembeschädigtenLeben (written 1944-47) Adorno: 153 aphorisms Punning on Aristotle’s treatise on ethics, Magna Moralia Adorno:social practices and institutions, political and economic structures, the bourgeois era and the fate of the individual Andreas Bernard, ‘Adorno’s attempt to spell out the alienation of the individual into its minutest ramifications in everyday life’
  11. Challenging the Libro de Aforismos as Genre Adorno: speak out against alienation awaken the reader to his/her situation: Caught in the political and economic structures constructed by the state in alliance with capital very genre itself – a collection of aphorisms – is undermined by the content book of aphorisms is a bourgeois genre conduct literature: how to behave in accordance with societal norms Adorno: unmask the structures underlying social norms
  12. Navas’sAforismos Boxes of lexia, based on Adorno’s original Visualization remixed visualization E.g Aphorism 14 Adorno: ‘Private life however is also marked by this’ Navas: ‘Private life is certainly marked by this, quite inevitably, given that the concept of “private” was originally conceived by the very system that now data-mines it in the name of the emerging social media market’. Just as Adornocritqued the medium of aphorism, so too Navas critiques medium of social media...
  13. Aphorisms for the Twenty-First Century Adorno’s aphorism Navas’s remixed aphorism
  14. Hypertext Short Fictions BelénGache, WordToys(2006) http://www.findelmundo.com.ar/wordtoys/index.htm 14 individual short fictions e.g. ‘¿Porqué se suicidó la señorita Chao?’ Story: response to the question posed in the title generated at random by an algorithm sequence of lexia in different coloured fonts principal actors in the story – ‘la sociedad china’, ‘la señorita Li’ ‘sus padres’ recombined along with set phrases & outcomes
  15. BelénGache, WordToys (2006) narrative multi-sequentiality as enabled by new media technologies role of character within new narratology YET: limits of these potentially liberatory new media technologies always ends on same concluding sentence to the story: ‘Dado que la sociedad se ha tornado en extremo peligrosa, debemos estar alertas para evitar que nos infrinja a nosotros mismos su golpe fatal.’ Citation from Mao TseTung conclusion to the story is already pre-written....
  16. Conclusions Continuing dialogue between print and digital formats Literary experimentation online Self-reflexive status Role of reader-user in activating the works Often critique of limitations of digital media technologies...
  17. Try Them Out for Yourself... See my links saved on delicious: https://delicious.com/#latamnetart Follow me on Twitter: @Claire_Taylor_M
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