Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing - Tapa dura

Wittig, Rob

 
9780819552754: Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing
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ISBN 10: 0819552755 ISBN 13: 9780819552754
Editorial: Wesleyan University Press, 1994

Sinopsis

188p cloth, dustjacket, plates, index, bibliography, credits, a wild book

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Críticas

"Invisible Rendezvous is an excellent and entertaining meditation on the connection between site-specific performance and cyberspace, recombinant culture and creative community, machination and identity, multiplicity and expression. It suggests that these are perhaps not as far apart as our apocalyptic impulses in the face of the new technology might suggest." -- Bookform

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Invisible Rendezvous is both a history and a manifesto. On behalf of a legion of unseen "authors," Rob Wittig describes the evolution of IN.S.OMNIA, an electronic bulletin board that first linked Seattle computer users in 1983 and soon spread into a nationwide network of invisible but creative collaborators. Wittig calls IN.S.OMNIA "an electronic town square" whose participants view it as a "digital coffee house, a place of refuge where they can be their various selves." In this non-place, the faceless in.s.omniacs engage in theoretical debate and shared authorship of treatises, dramas, novels, and hybrid genres that have yet to be named. This flurry of keyboard-clicking makes IN.S.OMNIA a point of entry into a kind of literary virtual reality that explodes traditional assumptions. Standard notions of linear movement in a text, of a work frozen at the moment of perfection, of the writer's mission to discover and use a single authentic voice are called into question. Hypertextual interaction between the myriad in.s.omniacs and the polyphonic, collaborative texts they create represents a new model of publishing where, Wittig notes, "every reader is a writer, and new forms appear, a new writing that is at once literature, graffiti, conversation, and word games. By its structure, IN.S.OMNIA calls into question fundamental constructs of late Romantic literature: the Author, the Work, the Reader." While other books ponder the possibilities of postmodern literature and new technologies, Invisible Rendezvous reports on more than a decade of actual accomplishments in the field. It traces the lineages of the new writing and adds lively, intriguing fuel to the ongoing debate over thestatus and future of literary assumptions, creative activity, and popular culture in America.

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Editorial
Wesleyan University Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0819552755
ISBN 13 
9780819552754
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
160
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