Tag Archive for "Theory" tag

Teaching Electronic Literature as a Foreign Land

September 16th, 2009 by Mark Sample | 9 comments

Hi, I’m Mark Sample, and I’m not a digital poet, but I play one in the classroom. Unlike many of netpoetic’s contributors, I am less a writer and practitioner of digital literature than a student of it. And by student, I mean teacher. I’m thrilled to be a contributor to netpoetic.com in this capacity, as [...]

Permission Part 2: Read/Write/Execute

August 19th, 2009 by sbaldwin | 1 comment

Part 1 is here.
The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in the [...]

Electronic Literature as World Literature?

August 14th, 2009 by heckman | 4 comments

I stumbled across an announcement from the Beehive Collective <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Design_Collective> and was admiring, as I always do, their great pen and ink posters, their aesthetics, their rich informational qualities, and their ethical commitment.  On the one hand, I find myself admiring their tried and true methods: black and white posters, created by artists working in [...]