Version 6.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Linux.

• Daniel Green writes about Dewey’s Art as Experience yet again.
• Fred Hammer from It’s Alive Fanzine interviews Greg Cameron, who drummed for the excellent SST band October Faction over at Double Cross.
• Grand Text Auto announces a new issue of New River.  There are some really good works of electronic literature in this issue which I will comment on soon.
• The rather famous, it seems, classic game Oregon Trail is being ported to the IPhone.  Hopefully a version for the Nintendo DS will come afterwards.

This week’s video is another from Black Flag.  It is from, I am pretty sure, the same show the Live 84 record was recorded.  Check out Greg Ginn absolutely shredding on guitar, with Kira and Bill backing him up.  Easily the best era of Black Flag.

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(inspiration)

During the fall of 2004, the following are guilty as charged of offering inspiration for what you are reading.

• Scott Rettberg’s hypertext fiction The Meddlesome Passenger.
• Jorge Luis Borges’ collection Labyrinths, especially The Library Of Babel, The Immortal, and The Circular Ruins.
• The literary weblog Conversational Reading, which, beyond generally getting me excited about literature, introduced me to the work of Gilbert Sorrentino, referenced in the penultimate lexia.
• Jill/txt was a daily, still, source of inspiration.  A conversation with Jill in real life inspired a lexia.
• Grand Text Auto in general.
• Shelley Jackson’s My Body a Wunderkammer, which made me cry more than once and pushed me to be brave enough to write about sexuality issues.
• Of course, The Unknown Collective’s The Unknown, which greatly influenced how I both read and write hypertext, and my aesthetic vision for hypertext fiction.
• Derik Badman’s, who I met on a , writing about constraints at the time I was writing War Prayers inspired me to try to write three hundred word, exact, entries.
• Although offline, Rettberg and Nick Montfort’s sticker novel Implementation was paradoxically what made me create a blog to document War Prayers.  I had to get my words onto a screen somewhere.  I even created a few summary stickers, one of which still is on a wall at The Richard Stockton College Of New Jersey underneath an Implementation sticker.

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This is the kind of thing I think the digital humanities should be doing more of. Nick Montfort’s graduate course last semester created Des Imagistes, a hypertext version of Ezra Pound’s 1912 imagist anthology. There are some big highbrow Canonical authors included: William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Amy Lowell.

User can click around between poems and authors to investigate the anthology. What I like the best about it is the straight forward nature of the Web Site, making traveling through the works very easy. This is the kind of Web Site that can be useful both in a New Media or English classroom and for showing the layman the basics of electronic literature. I am definitely going to bookmark this one for future reference.

Grand Text Auto has more information from Montfort himself.

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• The Atlantic on the 1958 NFL championship game and the recent book and documentary about it.
• End of year record list from Dead Metaphor.
• Digital Humanities Quarterly on something called Digital Humanities.
• Nick over at Grand Text Auto’s review of Sentences makes it sound like a book worth checking out.

This week’s video is a series of news reports on the punk scene in Boise Idaho circa 1985. Two weird anomalies out of this: I’m pretty surprised that Septic Death is not featured at all. Even stranger is how the reporter seems to be pretty accepting of punk and pretty tolerant/fair about presenting them in a good light. When I was in high school during the nineties I would have to talk down my parents after every news report about punk, hardcore, and especially Straight Edge that made everyone involved seem like a freak or criminal. This report from Boise is pretty refreshing.

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• Two more from the winter issue of The Quarterly Conversation: reviews of David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous and three of Cesar Aira’s novels.
• Two from the May issue of Postmodern Culture: Jeffrey T. Nealon’s The Swerve Around P: Literary Theory after Interpretation and Kyle A. Wiggins’ Futures of Negation: Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future and Utopian Science Fiction. No links, I am not linking to closed access journals anymore.
• Via Grand Text Auto, a New Yorker article about the disgusting “Myspace Hoax” suicide.  As I note in the comment section, as a teenager I was the victim of fake love notes for months one year.  This was before I was online; I cannot even begin to imagine what being a teenager who is fucked with like this in the Internet age.
• I am also reading Julian Dibbell’s A Rape In Cyberspace, which GTA also linked to.

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• I am going to catch up on the LBC’s coverage of Matthew Sharpe’s new novel . Scott over at Conversational Reading has some links to keep abreast of what is going on elsewhere in regards to the novel. I am going to try to check it out during the fall.

• Ready Steady Blog links to an article about John Barth. The comment section also has some useful links I am looking into.

• Via Grand Text Auto, the new issue of the Iowa Review Web is now online, which was partially guest edited by Stephanie Strickland.

• Daniel at The Reading Experience links to a Vanity Fair article about Arthur Miller. I don’t hold biographical trivia about authors in high regard for the most part, but I am curious to learn more about Miller’s relationship with his son, who has Down’s Syndrome. Miller is in my thoughts a lot lately because I will be reading two of his plays for a class this fall.

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Speaking of Grand Text Auto, they linked to a newly published French language history of Electronic Literature. Now I don’t speak French, I dropped it in college after a month, so I will trust GTxA’s description:

A quick browse based on sketchy French language skills suggests that the extensively hyperlinked 15 chapter document provides a very good historical introduction to some forms of electronic writing, with a particular focus on francophone work, from the prehistory of electronic writing in avant-garde traditions, through hypertext, combinatory forms, and animated interactive poetry.

As Scott points out, this looks like a great companion to N. Katherine Hayles’ Electronic Literature: What Is It?. I love the international, multilingual, nature of electronic literature. In May, at the ELO’s symposium, this was discussed extensively during the international panel.

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