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Inside Out of the Box: Default Settings and Electronic Poetics

dc.creatorHeckman, Davin
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-07T09:31:35Z
dc.date.available2022-01-07T09:31:35Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractDeveloping meaningful approaches to criticism appropriate to new modes of cultural production is among the most pressing problems facing the humanities scholars today. This essay discusses digital poetry as a method of revealing defaults in a technical age. It begins with a general definition of the default, followed by a close reading of Jason Nelson’s This Is How You Will Die (2006) and David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial (2006) as works that challenge default settings: practically, by opening up the space for criticism within digital practice, and philosophically, by engaging with questions of mortality. Through these poetic works, I trace a path through larger social and philosophical questions about technology via Heidegger and the contemporary discourses of technoscience and posthumanism. I conclude with a discussion of the “black box” as a metaphor for an unresolved knowledge of the human between the technical and the poetic.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17736
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18702
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeBasel
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectDigital Poetryen
dc.subjectMedia Philosophyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workTHIS IS HOW YOU WILL DIE
dc.subject.workINTERSTITIAL
dc.titleInside Out of the Box: Default Settings and Electronic Poeticsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-01-07T10:39:27
local.source.epage17
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleNr. 40
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume12

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