Archivi tag: literature

dear swedish academy [2nd message]

Dear Swedish Academy,

Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Laura Moriarty, Rae Armantrout, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemarie Waldrop, Alice Notley, and let me add Jorie Graham.
Not to mention Liliane Giraudon, Anne Portugal, Hélène Cixous and (not a poet) Julia Kristeva.

Best regards
Marco Giovenale

paolo ruffino: “future gaming. creative interventions in video game culture”

Sandro Ricaldone

PAOLO RUFFINO
Future Gaming
Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Goldsmith Press, 2018

This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the medium. This book is about those predictions. It is about the ways in which the past, present, and future notions of games are narrated and negotiated by a small group of producers, journalists, and gamers, and about how invested these narrators are in telling the story of tomorrow.

This new title from Goldsmiths Press by Paolo Ruffino suggests the story could be told another way. Considering game culture, from the gamification of self-improvement to GamerGate’s sexism and violence, Ruffino lays out an alternative, creative mode of thinking about the medium: a sophisticated critical take that blurs the distinctions among studying, playing, making, and living with video games. Offering a series of stories that provide alternative narratives of digital gaming, Ruffino aims to encourage all of us who study and play (with) games to raise ethical questions, both about our own role in shaping the objects of research, and about our involvement in the discourses we produce as gamers and scholars. For researchers and students seeking a fresh approach to game studies, and for anyone with an interest in breaking open the current locked-box discourse, Future Gaming offers a radical lens with which to view the future.

william burroughs interviewed by kathy acker (1988)

versopolis, poetry expo 23: call for entries

https://www.versopolis.com/news/news/1222/poetry-expo-23

Poetry Expo is the world’s first digital fair completely dedicated to poetry, human creativity and literature, designed to showcase the achievements of different nations, cultures and languages, connecting artist from all around the globe, working towards a change both in art and society at large, while offering you a space to present and share your ideas with the global community.
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Poetry Expo wishes to create a space for free expression and creativity, and share collective and individual best practices and accomplishments in culture and literature. With five digital pavilions focused on the subthemes of opportunity, sustainability, human and artificial creativity, future prospects and connect not divide, we invite the global art and culture community to pitch their projects related to the above subthemes, and indeed other works that may not fit the subthemes, but can reach and move audiences, raise awareness and mobilise.
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This is a not-for-profit project, and it does not offer honoraria to contributors. There is, however, limited funding for English translations and new co-operation ideas.
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https://www.versopolis.com/news/news/1222/poetry-expo-23

post “esiste la ricerca?” (la ricerca esiste)

L’incontro del 16 giugno allo Studio Campo Boario, ESISTE LA RICERCA?, è stato – a detta di chi ha assistito – un effettivo successo. Si può dire come presa d’atto, senza alzare la voce. Interventi densi e carichi di suggerimenti. Sala piena, a tratti assai piena, con picchi di una cinquantina di persone.

Alla fine, un po’ prima delle 20, il pubblico ha affollato la sala grande dello Studio, dove c’erano banchetti e banconi di libri. E le vendite, i dialoghi e gli scambi sono andati decisamente bene.

Chi vuole può continuare a seguire la pagina dell’evento, dove per qualche tempo ancora segnalerò materiali e link.

Altro modo per rimanere aggiornati sui passi e passaggi della ricerca letteraria, è visitare gli spazi web degli editori che erano e sono coinvolti nell’incontro, tra cui Tic, IkonaLìber, Diaforia Blonk, il verri, oltre a consultare i materiali del folder pubblico che di volta in volta potrà essere aggiornato. E logicamente seguire https://gammm.org e slowforward.

Restate connessi, in pentola bolle molto altro

weaving media in italian poetry

https://facebook.com/events/s/weaving-media-in-italian-poetr/1375834299521945/

with brion gysin in paris (from genesis p’orridge’s lost uk-archive)

charles bernstein: “content’s dream”

A digital edition (pdf) of Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984, by Charles Bernstein, has just been made available by Douglas Messerli, working with Pablo Capra, for Green Integer. Sun & Moon Press published this near 500-page collection thirty-five years ago (in 1986). Northwestern republished it, but that edition is out of print. The book is on line as a pdf, for a nominal charge, which will help support this great independent press. Get it at —>
https://www.greeninteger.com/book-digital.cfm?–&BookID=437

cover by Susan Bee

glitch and outstitution

Differx has not disappeared. On the contrary, it wants to go on trying to study and use the margins and the ever-expanding core of the glitch(ed) art, literature, language, sound; and make the pathologies of the Western logos grow. This is the reason why it launches the trans-cultural word “OUTSTITUTION”: to focus on what this will (maybe) mean.

Let’s wiki: the word “institution” comes from Middle English “institucioun”, from Old French “institution”, from Latin “institūtiō”, from “instituō” (“to set up”), from “in-” (“in, on”) + “statuō” (“to set up, establish”). So my intent —and the aim of differx as a site— is clear:

OUT OF THE INSTITUTION.

Any kind of cultural, literary, artistic initiative is constantly under the control of the authorities through bureaucracy. Any meeting, independent structure, event, must necessarily interact with the corruption and the surrounding wall of the “city”. Perhaps the word corruption is not right. In cities like Rome the dark side of the Middle Ages has never been affected by anything. It never ended. The families who actually own the territory also rule the game. It seems a bad & kitsch distopian conspiracy remark but the sad truth is that —at least in Rome— the nobles and the high clergy are still the backbone of power today, with la haute et la grossière bourgeoisie.

So a policy of temporary autonomous zones is still the only way to play outside the chessboard. (Which hosts only kings and queens).

Ideas for and in and outside Rome are welcome.

algorithmic poetry: speculative imagination, machine learning, code studies

da Rhizome
https://rhizome.org/community/50921/ :

How do we integrate machine learning algorithms into our poetic practice?

/ Five-week Live* Online class begins 26 April, ends 24 May

/ Every Monday, 8pm-10pm, CET

/ Small class of participants

Course Description

The class aims to merge three different universes: code, literature, and machine learning. We will descend into this Bermuda Triangle of disciplines with a poetic, speculative, and conceptual approach, as well as a technical perspective.

What is the difference between writing with code and writing with text? Is code a new material? What is electronic literature and code poetry? How far the-rabbit-hole can computers take us?

At the beginning of our voyage, we will gain a poetic perspective on how to write code by submerging ourselves into the technical and speculative aspects of creative programming. We will then explore the conceptual cornerstones to think about lite rary texts as perception distorting machines. And finally, we will dwell into the dark territory of pre-trained Machine Learning models to enhance our imagination and generate new forms of writing textual organisms.

In summary, this poetic interpretation of computational logic in creative coding and machine learning will allow us to review concepts and engage with tools to convey new meanings to our writing experiences.

In this course, you will be introduced to: Continua a leggere →

oggi, 20 gennaio 2016: mario corticelli e vincenzo ostuni al teatroinscatola, blitzvorlesungen / gammm

|| 2006—2016 || BLITZVORLESUNGEN PER I PRIMI DIECI (e i prossimi cento) ANNI DI

GAMMM

BLITZVORLESUNGEN = letture lampo _ in un numero imprecisato di date

SECONDA DATA :
OGGI, mercoledì 20 gennaio 2016, alle ore 21:00

Teatroinscatola
Roma, Lungotevere degli Artigiani 12-14 (qui)

Mario Corticelli

presenta l’ebook Un modo (cfr. qui)

Vincenzo Ostuni

presenta l’ebook Deleuze, o dell’essere chiunque chiunque (cfr. qui)

Con la partecipazione di

Luca Venitucci

https://www.facebook.com/events/162733867426660/

GAMMM è stato creato nel 2006 da Gherardo Bortolotti, Alessandro Broggi, Marco Giovenale, Massimo Sannelli, Michele Zaffarano. I suoi redattori sono attualmente Marco Giovenale, Mariangela Guatteri, Andrea Raos, Michele Zaffarano.

GAMMM non è una rivista né un editore. Dà ospitalità alla ricerca, tutto qui.

http://gammm.org/

facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/gammm.org
https://www.facebook.com/events/162733867426660/

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https://twitter.com/gammm_twit