Network Literacies

This week Gregory Ulmer glanced at Interface (4 pages from an actual book! Take that electronic writing! And hello library counter reserve) and Scott Rettberg looks at “Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature”. First things first, in Ulmer’s piece on interface as rhetoric, he uses the word “Oikoniomia” when quoting Derrida, which is either a [...]

I’d like to open the entry for this week by saying that I am acutely aware that the reading was prepared by Lisa Gye, the Network Literacies potentate; it is therefore the most flawless, intellectually rigorous and entertaining text for the entire semester. Obviously. Ahem. Truthfully, I had one of the most interesting reactions to [...]

“What is an electronic Author? Theory and the Technological Fallacy“, by Richard Grusin, explores some of the discourse that surrounds electronic writing and the (perceived) impact that new technology has on notions of authorship. I found this article interesting on a number of levels, partly because it either highlighted or crystalised a few ideas that [...]

I’m not sure exactly how to go about creating these summaries, so I’ll just dive in and ask questions later. The reading this week, by Walter J. Ong, revolved around the concept of writing as a technology and the consequences of the “interiorisation” of writing since its inception. I can fully accept and understand the [...]