Text As Ride
Electronic Literature and New Media Art
Will be published approx. on 15. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-943665-36-5 (ISBN)
Description
Text as Ride re-situates our understanding of new media in the social contexts of mobile apps, thrill rides, walking in the city, 3D cinema, video games, and DJ culture. Rather than a continuation of print-based literature by other means, this book considers electronic literature as a practice that foregrounds new media's specificity. Janez Strehovec deals with post-hypertext e-literature that has become conceptual: moving beyond hyperlinked storytelling, deals with digital materiality and boundaries of language; with code, textual ecology, and the limits of the sayable. This book will appeal to scholars of electronic literature, gaming, urban studies, cinema, and digital culture.
Reviews / Votes
"If you want to have a broader and deeper perspective on post-hypertextual electronic literature and how it intertwines with new media art, popular culture, and emerging social and political paradigms, your best option is to take a ride with Janez Strehovec, whose sophisticated, unorthodox, and heuristic ideas and theories have been shaping and stimulating European e-lit discussions and discourses for two decades now."Markku Eskelinen, independent scholar, experimental author, and founding editor of Game Studies and Cybertext Yearbooks
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Morganstown
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
315 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943665-36-5 (9781943665365)
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Persons
Dr. Janez Strehovec is Associate Professor of new media art theory and director of the Institute of New Media Art and Electronic Literature at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of seven scientific monographs in the fields of cultural studies, digital literature, and aesthetics published.