Labels: consciousness, literature, neuroscience, psychology
Philippe Bootz - Alire: A Relentless Literary Investigation
"The web-based literary journal Alire was created in January 1989 by the Parisian groupL.A.I.R.E. (Lecture, Art, Innovation, Recherche, Écriture) -which included Philippe Bootz, Frédéric Develay, Jean-Marie Dutey, Claude Maillard and Tibor Papp. Alire is known as the oldest multimedia journal in Europe, and certainly one of the oldest in the West. Before the arrival of CD-ROMs, before the Internet explosion, the journal was already publishing poetry written for and intended to be read through computers."
Labels: digital poetics, ebooks, hypertext, literature, netart, oulipo, theory
POSTLANGUAGE POETRY:
"...literature is too multi-faceted, rambunctious, and iconoclastic to fit the limits of any definition... Literary theory does continue to be a central part of the practice of many postlanguage poets, yet they tend to undertake it with an ambivalent and often wearied eye....Thus, while narrative, lyric, spirituality, and a poetics of the everyday appear often as elements that language poets think should be rejected, postlanguage poets such as Juliana Spahr, Susan Smith Nash, Jefferson Hansen, Liz Willis, Peter Gizzi, Chris Stroffolino, Jennifer Moxley, Joe Ross, Lisa Jarnot, myself and many others have been consciously using one or several of these elements in their work, without returning to the sort of naive justifications of those elements that continue to be a feature of more mainstream American poetry."
Labels: language, literature, popo, theory
textetc : literary theory: an evaluation:
"Theory does not deal with absolutes but with possibilities, speculations, elusive chains of thought...Is there now a generally correct theory of literature? No. Is there a body of thought that is broadly accepted? Far from it: the scene is a battlefield of opinions and assertions, with little supporting thought or experiment."
"Theory does not deal with absolutes but with possibilities, speculations, elusive chains of thought...Is there now a generally correct theory of literature? No. Is there a body of thought that is broadly accepted? Far from it: the scene is a battlefield of opinions and assertions, with little supporting thought or experiment."
Labels: literature, relative, theory, truth
Kaldron Home Page -- Begun in the early 70s, Kaldron is the longest running magazine of visual poetry, or concrete poetry, or book art, the avant-garde intermedium between poetry and painting in the U.S., with an international and multicultural scope
Labels: books, digital poetics, language, literature, vispo, visual
