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Literature of Exclusion : Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature, Hardcover by Wenaus, Andrew C., ISBN 1793614636, ISBN-13 9781793614636, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration"--

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PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic

ISBN-101793614636

ISBN-139781793614636

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Number of Pages324 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLiterature of Exclusion : Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature

Publication Year2021

SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy, Modern / 21st Century, Subjects & Themes / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorAndrew C. Wenaus

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatHardcover

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ReviewsThis illuminating monograph captures the condition of hypermodern writing which takes narrative to the limits of aesthetic pleasure and traditional logic. Based on the study of analogue and digital experiments in algorithmic poetics--from gloomy absurdists such as Beckett to glitch visionaries such as Siratori--The Literature of Exclusion unravels the alienating potential of subject-less structures of the literary practice. Among many publications that challenge the notions around experimental writing, this book offers an affirmative insight into what the author calls "Dada Dataism" and its related sublime., Andrew Wenaus's ambitious monograph on avant-garde literature in the digital age explores algorithmic culture with remarkable scope and insight. Eclipsing the postmodern with the supermodern, Wenaus effectively uses a mosaic approach to study a range of canonical, fringe, and interstitial texts, theorizing how we are accelerating towards a thoroughly Ballardian future in which the technologies of Absurdity and Inevitability will have their way with us. Disarming, provocative, and edifying, The Literature of Exclusion breaks new ground and speaks the language of multiple scholarly disciplines., "Andrew Wenaus's ambitious monograph on avant-garde literature in the digital age explores algorithmic culture with remarkable scope and insight. Eclipsing the postmodern with the supermodern, Wenaus effectively uses a mosaic approach to study a range of canonical, fringe, and interstitial texts, theorizing how we are accelerating towards a thoroughly Ballardian future in which the technologies of Absurdity and Inevitability will have their way with us. Disarming, provocative, and edifying, The Literature of Exclusion breaks new ground and speaks the language of multiple scholarly disciplines." --David H. Wilson, professor of English, Wright State University "This illuminating monograph captures the condition of hypermodern writing which takes narrative to the limits of aesthetic pleasure and traditional logic. Based on the study of analogue and digital experiments in algorithmic poetics--from gloomy absurdists such as Beckett to glitch visionaries such as Siratori--The Literature of Exclusion unravels the alienating potential of subject-less structures of the literary practice. Among many publications that challenge the notions around experimental writing, this book offers an affirmative insight into what the author calls "Dada Dataism" and its related sublime." --Ania Malinowska, Professor in Cultural and Media Studies, University of Silesia, Andrew Wenaus's ambitious monograph on avant-garde literature in the digital age explores algorithmic culture with remarkable scope and insight. Eclipsing the postmodern with the supermodern, Wenaus effectively uses a mosaic approach to study a range of canonical, fringe, and interstitial texts, theorizing how we are accelerating towards a thoroughly Ballardian future in which the technologies of Absurdity and Inevitability will have their way with us. Disarming, provocative, and edifying, The Literature of Exclusion breaks new ground and speaks the language of multiple scholarly disciplines. -- David H. Wilson, professor of English, Wright State University This illuminating monograph captures the condition of hypermodern writing which takes narrative to the limits of aesthetic pleasure and traditional logic. Based on the study of analogue and digital experiments in algorithmic poetics-from gloomy absurdists such as Beckett to glitch visionaries such as Siratori-The Literature of Exclusion unravels the alienating potential of subject-less structures of the literary practice. Among many publications that challenge the notions around experimental writing, this book offers an affirmative insight into what the author calls "Dada Dataism" and its related sublime. -- Ania Malinowska, Professor in Cultural and Media Studies, University of Silesia

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Dewey Decimal809.911

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Literature of Exclusion Chapter 1: Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer, Cognitive Transformation, and Exclusion Chapter 2: The Radical Poetics of Impersonality: The Posthuman, the Inhuman, and Dada Chapter 3: The Divine Neutrality of the Apparatus: The Self-Reflexive Conceptual Horror of B.R. Yeager Chapter 4: "Something Is Taking Its Course": Zero-Player Games, Proceduralism, and Samuel Beckett's Endgame Chapter 5: Blossoming Ghost: Memetic Engineering, Hauntology, and Metamorphiction in Jeff Noon's Falling Out of Cars Chapter 6: Swarm Annihilation and Supermodern Transcendence: Chaotics, Granular Synthesis, and the Glitch Poetics of Kenji Siratori Chapter 7: The Electronic Literature of Exclusion and Autopoiesis: Obsession and Fictionalism Chapter 8: The Electronic Literature of Exclusion and Allopoiesis: Asemic Word Processing, Technical Images, and Allison Parrish's Ahe Thd Yearidy Ti Isa Conclusion: Extro-Science Fiction, Hyper-Contingent Literatures of Exclusion, and U

SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war. With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists sought to "signify no thing." Today, data also operates autonomously. However, rather than dismantling tradition, data organizes, selects, combines, quantifies, and simplifies the complexity of actuality. Like Dada, data also signifies nothing. While Dadaists protest with purpose, data proceeds without intention. The individual in the early twentieth century agonizes over the alienation from daily life and the fear of being converted into a cog in a machine. Today, however, the individual in twenty-first-century supermodernity merges, not with large industrial machinery, but with the processual and procedural logic of programming with innocuous ease. Both exclude human agency from self-narration but to differing degrees of abstraction. Examining the work of B.R. Yeager, Samuel Beckett, Jeff Noon, Kenji Siratori, Mike Bonsall, Allison Parrish, and narratives written by artificial intelligence, Wenaus considers the threshold of sensible narration and the effects that the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open, hyper-contingent, unprescribed alternatives for self-narration., The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration.

LC Classification NumberPN56