Alex Saum
Faculty at UC Berkeley; Doing digital things
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
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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Digital Literacy, Critical Creativity and the (Digital) Humanities
By Alex Saum
Digital Literacy, Critical Creativity and the (Digital) Humanities
Keynote Lecture for New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University June 27-28, 2019
