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Writing Through the Data Banks: A Note on Poetry and Technology in the Swedish 1960s

dc.creatorOlsson, Jesper
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-06T13:43:46Z
dc.date.available2022-01-06T13:43:46Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractThis essay deals with literary experiments from the Swedish 1960s - by artists and writers such as Öyvind Fahlström, Åke Hodell, and others - that elaborate and differentiate the interface of poetry through the use of various media (book, performance, gramophone, etc). Apart from presenting a challenge to the traditionally assigned roles of writers and readers, these texts can be seen as articulating a threshold between a 'culture of expression' and a 'culture of information', where the forms of poetry are shaped, not by the search for the perfect expression of an experience as much as by an attempt to write through the databanks that inform and form (ideological) ensembles of knowledge at a certain historical juncture. The main example in the essay is Åke Hodell's book, performance, record, TV-film, etc. Lågsniff, from 1966, which, through its use of technical codes and data, connects literature to the discourse of information theory, technology, and war. A problematic question to be raised is also, if, and in what way, one can relate these poetic forms to a digital poetics today.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17632
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18588
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeProvidence
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.subjectSwedenen
dc.subject1960sen
dc.subjectliteratureen
dc.subjectmedia historyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleWriting Through the Data Banks: A Note on Poetry and Technology in the Swedish 1960sen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-01-06T14:47:42
local.source.epage9
local.source.issue4
local.source.issueTitleNr. 30
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume5

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