By Marcel Cornis-Pope
Began in 2010 as a part of the “Histories of Literatures in eu Languages” sequence backed through the foreign Comparative Literature organization, the present venture on New Literary Hybrids within the Age of Multimedia Expression acknowledges the worldwide shift towards the visible and the digital in all components of textuality: the published, verbal textual content is more and more joined with the visible, usually digital, textual content. This shift has unfolded new domain names of human fulfillment in artwork and tradition. The overseas roster of 24 participants to this quantity pursue a vast diversity of concerns less than 4 units of questions that let a bigger dialog to emerge, either contained in the volume’s sections and among them. The 4 sections disguise, 1) Multimedia Productions in Theoretical and old point of view; 2) neighborhood and Intercultural initiatives; three) varieties and Genres; and, four) Readers and Rewriters in Multimedia Environments. The essays integrated during this quantity are examples of the types of tasks and inquiries that experience develop into attainable on the interface among literature and different media, new and outdated. They emphasize the level to which hypertextual, multimedia, and digital truth applied sciences have improved the sociality of studying and writing, allowing extra humans to have interaction than ever prior to. while, although, they warn that, so long as those applied sciences are used to augment outdated behavior of interpreting/ writing, they are going to convey modest effects. one of many significant initiatives pursued by way of the members to this quantity is to combine literature within the worldwide informational setting the place it will probably functionality as an ingenious accomplice, instructing its interpretive knowledge to different parts of the cultural panorama.
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In the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer critiqued this matrix as an ideological form of standardization, unification, and industrialization of culture and cultural industries. As Adorno and Horkheimer wrote: “Films, radio and magazines make up a system which is uniform as a whole and in every part” (120). Standardization and industrial production are elements of the industrial economy and contingently textual economy. Electronic Literature and Modes of Production 31 The term economy is understood in its broader sense, not only as in political economy, but also as a term used in in psychoanalysis and poststructuralist textualism.
It is a type of productivity that is close to what Barthes defined as the “inexhaustible” (“Textual Analysis of Poe’s ‘Valdemar’ ” 153), though it is not quite the same productivity. ” (The Language of New Media, 36) Roland Barthes (in his poststructuralist phase), as well as Jacques Derrida, emphasized the openness of a text. Every text is open to different interpretations, different meanings, and various hermeneutics. Still, Espen Aarseth insists that the cybertext is not metaphorically but mechanically a “device for the production and consumption of verbal signs” (2).
Network texts use different mechanisms, so their “openness” is more similar to the openness of oral communication or a telephone call than to the variability of the cybertext or the topography of hypertext. Digitalization is an important process. Lev Manovich has suggested that it is a process responsible for global cultural “transcoding” (The Language of New Media, 63–65). However, during the second half of the 1980s a new kind of transcoding emerged, one that was fundamentally defined by the structure of the Net.