Sandy Baldwin lecionará um seminário transversal, intitulado «Between Two Writings: The Materiality and Entropy of Digital Inscription, and the Philosophical Condition of Electronic Literature».
Resumo do Seminário:
No theory exists to analyze literary texts and signs on the computer and the network. Don’t get me wrong: there are admirable descriptive formalisms and historical genealogies of electronic literature. All these function as criticism should, but do not explain how digital inscriptions become or exist as literary. At stake is whether we can delimit a domain of digital literature separate from the totality of literature – literally, written texts – on the networked computer. The problem is that existing criticism begins from the presumption that “there is” electronic literature and proceeds to describe the various works in existence (for example, in Electronic Literature, Hayles explicitly refuses to theorize the subject of her book). The results are productive for maintaining distributions of texts and readings in a field of literary and non-literary inscriptions. My project refuses the given-ness of these forms and histories. I ask: why is there electronic literature at all? What must digital inscription be and what must literature be for there to be digital literature? For the first time, electronic literature is posed as a philosophical question: what necessitates the literariness of digital inscriptions? We, digital writers, are lovers. Love of literature is the procedure that discovers rhetoricity and the other’s body in digital inscription. All love is risky, all digital literature is nonsense. It is the risk of the necrotic, entropic body that requires us to love electronic literature. Love of literature as a condition of our survival.
Organização: Programa de Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura