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Pentalogisajak “Love talks to Love”

Dengan restu kasih-sayang Tuhan tubuh/jiwa saya, setelah perantaian malam ke malam jahanam, akhirnya pentalogisajak “Love talks to Love” ini rampung saya kerjakan. Mengapa digagas dalam e-book komersial, dan hanya akan dipasarkan lewat dunia maya?

Pentalogi ini merupakan jawaban atas suara-suara yang mulai dari sekedar bisik-bisik tak tentu arah angin,

cibiran, sampai teriakan terang-terangan yang sempat, dan yang terus menggaungkan keterpinggiran sastra cyber sebagai sastra yang terbuang (red. tong sampah).

Saya tidak terlalu memahami lekuk tubuh sejarah sastra cyber Indonesia dan dunia. Tetapi di padang ilalang inilah saya lahir, hidup, dibesarkan nafas dan berkarya. Read More..

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“MATERIALITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN PLAY”

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BY LISA GITELMAN

Lisa Gitelman: Your book (How We Became Posthuman, Chicago 1999) is one that I find myself returning to again and again. I keep discovering new things in it, and it keeps informing the work I do on technologies of representation. Are you still working on the same or on related issues? Could you describe your current project?

N. Katherine Hayles: Right now I am finishing up a book called Writing Machines to be published in September 2002 with MIT Press in their new Mediawork series edited by Peter Lunenfeld. It carries on some of the arguments of Posthuman but in a different vein. I have become very interested in the possibility of media-specific criticism–a mode of critical inquiry attentive to the materiality of the medium in which a literary work is produced. Read More..

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Sebab Kode Adalah Puisi

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OLEH EKA KURNIAWAN

Sekiranya Borges masih hidup, barangkali ia akan menjadi penulis paling getol on-line. Bagaimana tidak, banyak orang yang percaya, sebelum internet ditemukan, Borges telah “memimpikan” dunia internet dalam cerita-cerita pendeknya. Ingat perihal ensiklopedia yang disusun secara diam-diam oleh sekelompok orang sehingga menghasilkan dunia yang baru? Bukankah hal ini sekarang menjadi mungkin dengan perangkat lunak wiki sebagaimana dipergunakan di wikipedia.org? Atau perihal teks yang bisa merujuk ke teks lain tanpa batas? Sejak ditemukan internet, kita sudah mengenal “link”. Read More..

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Electronic Literature: What is it?

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BY N. KHATERINE HAYLES (UCLA)

This essay surveys the development and current state of electronic literature, from the popularity of hypertext fiction in the 1980’s to the present, focusing primarily on hypertext fiction, network fiction, interactive fiction, locative narratives, installation pieces, “codework,” generative art and the Flash poem. It also discusses the central critical issues raised by electronic literature, pointing out that there is significant overlap with the print tradition. At the same time, the essay argues that the practices, texts, procedures, and processual nature of electronic literature require new critical models and new ways of playing and interpreting the works. A final section discusses the Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination (PAD) initiative of the Electronic Literature Organization, including the Electronic Literature Collection Volume I and the two white papers that are companion pieces to this essay, “Acid Free Bits” and “Born Again Bits.” Read More..