With Simon Roloff, I wrote an introduction to digital literature for the famed Junius Verlag’s Zur Einführung series. From the publisher’s announcement:
Digital technology is fundamentally changing the way we think about what literature is, how it is created, and how it functions. This volume introduces the technical foundations, poetology, history and theory of a genre that is essentially created from algorithms. It thus analyses and contextualizes texts that seek not only to reproduce classical writing, dissemination and reception practices under digital conditions, but also to change them. Basic definitions of the terms code, concept, authorship, post-digitality, and artificial neural networks as well as historical overviews of permutative poetry, the beginnings in the mainframe age and in early net culture help to better understand the contexts in which digital literature is created and the forms it takes today.
You can buy the (German) book here. A translation into English is in progress.
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