(Process-Intensive) Literature

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(Process-Intensive) Literature Scott Rettberg The University of Bergen, Norway ELO Future of Electronic Literature Symposium, May 3, 2006

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These are the slides from my short presentation at the 2007 ELO Symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature

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(Process-Intensive) Literature

Scott Rettberg

The University of Bergen, Norway

ELO Future of Electronic Literature Symposium, May 3, 2006

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Writing Under Constraints

• Oulipo idea of constraints as productive

• Constraints of network communication technologies/styles

• Algorithmic constraints• Constraints in service of

collaboration

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Processes of Collaboration

• Relationship of constraints and collaboration

• Negotiation• Heuristic loop• Hidden/

unacknowledged collaboration (e.g. with software designers

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Processes of Distribution

• The creation of a new literary culture

• Nonhierarchical distribution

• Ad hoc publication models/systems of review

• Meaning of global distribution

• “Communitizing”

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Processes of Reading

• Institutional Context• Negotiating the

ergodic• Reading and closure• Educating readers,

but how to support or inspire more writers to create in this medium?