Article: Enter the Cut-up Matrix: Some notes on Man and machines in the (Swedish) 1960’s
| dc.creator | Ingvarsson, Jonas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-06T13:43:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-06T13:43:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay, focusing on a slice of Swedish prose fiction from the 1960-70's, raises some questions concerning the artificial subject, along with discussions of game theory and automation. Torsten Ekbom's "strategic model theatre" Spelmatriser för Operation Albatross [1966; Game Matrices for Operation Albatross] is the main object of study. The (often very bizarre) text fragments in this book are, fictionally, generated by a number of computers. The figures acting in this game are devoid of skeletons; they are merely bodies of information, produced by machines. In dialogue with (among others) Norbert Wiener, Lewis Mumford, John von Neumann and Marshall McLuhan, Ekbom's text is found to illustrate a broader context of cybernetics and subjectivity in the 1960's. Finally, by using the shift of epistemological dominant (described by N. Katherine Hayles) from "presence-absence" to "pattern-randomness", Ekbom's Game Matrices for Operation Albatross finds itself in an historically interesting intersection of subjectivity: the life of Man in the 1960's is becoming increasingly "coded" and "randomized", while the computer is still that huge Machine, not yet, as today, the subconscious of everyday life. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17627 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18583 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Roberto Simanowski | |
| dc.publisher.place | Providence | |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | issn:1617-6901 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | digital literature | en |
| dc.subject | automation | en |
| dc.subject | Human-Computer Interaction | en |
| dc.subject | cybernetics | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:791 | |
| dc.title | Enter the Cut-up Matrix: Some notes on Man and machines in the (Swedish) 1960’s | en |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.status | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Article | en |
| local.coverpage | 2022-01-06T14:47:41 | |
| local.source.epage | 11 | |
| local.source.issue | 4 | |
| local.source.issueTitle | Nr. 30 | |
| local.source.spage | 1 | |
| local.source.volume | 5 |
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