Digital Literacy, Critical Creativity and the (Digital) Humanities:

Why Should We Care about Electronic Literature?

New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference

Manchester Metropolitan University, June 27-28, 2019

Alex Saum-Pascual

UC Berkeley

@alexsaum

www.alexsaum.com

Digital objects of any kind, just like digital media of any kind, can only be fully understood by praxis

Digital objects of any kind, just like digital media of any kind, can only be fully understood by praxis

Digital objects of any kind, just like digital media of any kind, can only be fully understood by praxis

Digital objects of any kind, just like digital media of any kind, can only be fully understood by praxis

Electronic Literature Organization

http://collection.eliterature.org

This is an example of e-lit> Benjamín Moreno's Concretoons

This is an example of e-lit> a selection of my favorite twitter bots

 Cornelious Castoriadis's "radical imagination" as "critical creativity"

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http:// eliterature.digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu

Hernán Casciani,

Más respeto que soy tu madre

(Blognovel)

Loss Pequeño Glazier,

Territorio Libre

Hypertextual narrative,

generative

Final student projects

No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica

Giselle Beiguelman, O livro depois do livro.

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica, UC Berkeley

Judy Malloy. its name was Penelope.

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica. UC Berkeley

Jim Andrews, Globebop.

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica. UC Berkeley

Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen.

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica. UC Berkeley

David Hirmes. The Aleph: Infinite Pity, Infinite Wonder

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica. UC Berkeley

Benjamín Moreno, Concretoons.

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica. UC Berkeley

Ana María Uribe. Anipoemas.

Displayed at No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica.

UC Berkeley

#selfiepoetry and #youtubers

"The Measure of All Things" Alex Saum (2015)

ASHES TO ASHES

-De Cock, Christian, Alf Rehn and David Berry. “For a Critical Creativity: the Radical Imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis”, The Handbook of Research on Creativity, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013, 150-161

-Drucker, Johanna, “Theory as Praxis: The Poetics of Electronic Textuality”, Modernism/Modernity, 9.4 (2012): 683-691

-Castoriadis, Cornelius, The Imaginary Institution of Society. Cambridge: Polity, 1987

-_____ “Anthropology, philosophy, politics”, Thesis Eleven, 49(1):99-116

-McGann, Jerome, Radiant Textuality. Literature after the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave, 2001

-Pequeño Glazier, Loss. Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008

-Saum-Pascual, Alex, “Teaching Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: A Proposal” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11.3 (2017)

-Yusoff, Katheryn, “Biopolitical economies and the political aesthetics of climate change”, Theory, Culture & Society, 27.2-3 (2010):73-99

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