IS THIRD GENERATION LITERATURE POSTWEB LITERATURE?

GENERATIONAL SHIFTS AND CRITICAL PERIPHERIES: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE’S SOCIAL FUNCTION 

#ELOCORK July 15-18, 2019

Alex Saum-Pascual

@alexsaum

www.alexsaum.com

Flores > 3rd gen e-lit uses established platforms with massive user bases 

Montfort > post-web e-lit is based on applications that do not rely on the world wide web for their access or distribution

Inman Berens > (post-web) social media works (like Instapoetry) should be read together with the read/write capacities of social media metadata, that also conforms them

Some musings on the pos-web...

the postweb is as a sensibility,

a political positioning,

and an aesthetic

shameless plug >

this is my book on the postweb >

#Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2018

Jorge Carrión. Crónica de Viaje (2009-2014)

Steven Hall. The Raw Shark Texts (2007)

(but let's not dwell on it, I've moved on)

HYPERAWARENESS 

DOMESTICATION

AMATEURISIM

BOREDOM

ANTI-INSTRUMENTALIZATION 

(what a word!)

the "meh!"

E-Lit could be its own YouTube category 

Lazy Cat by TxtStories, which is really part of NewForm Productions, is part of the "professional YouTube"

The AMAteur YouTube 😍 will make you famous

...or not

"The Harlem Shake [BEST ONES!]" YouTube video compilation

this video, just one of many "Harlem Shake" ones,  has over 100,750,000 views  🤦🏻‍♀️

Invisible Things_a tedious YouTube poem

Hito Steyerl > The poor image is the lumpen proletarian of images ... "Only digital technology could produce such a dilapidated image in the first place”

Berry, David. M. Critical Theory and the Digital. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Print

Berry, David and Anders Fagerjord. Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age. London: Polity Press, 2017.

Bridle, James. “Waving at the Machines”Web Directions

https://www.webdirections.org/resources/james-bridle-waving-at-the-machines/#transcript

Flores, Leo. “Third Generation Electronic Literature” electronic book review. 4/7/19 http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/third-generation-electronic-literature/

Hight, Craig. (2008) “The field of digital documentary: A challenge to documentary theorists” Studies in Documentary Film 2:1, pp3-8

Inman Berens, Kathi “E-Lit’s #1 Hit: Is Instagram Poetry E-Literature?” electronic book review

http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/e-lits-1-hit-is-instagram-poetry-e-literature/4/7/19

____ “Third Generation Electronic Literature and Artisanal Interfaces: Resistance in the materials” electronic book review. 5/5/19 http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/third-generation-electronic-literature-and-artisanal-interfaces-resistance-in-the-materials/

Keating, Abigail. “Video-making, Harlem Shaking: Theorizing the interactive amateur” New Cinemas 11.2+3 (2013): 99-110

Montfort, Nick. “A Web Reply To the Post-Web” Post Position, Nick Montfort’s personal blog.8/26/2018 https://nickm.com/post/2018/08/a-web-reply-to-the-post-web-generation/

Saum-Pascual, Alex. #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2018

Steyerl, Hito. “In Defense of the Poor Image”. e-flux. Journal #10. Nov 2009. N.p https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/

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