Sean Pryor, David Trotter (eds.): Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies (2016)
Filed under book | Tags: · literature, machine, media, media archeology, media technology, technology, theory, writing
“This is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection unearths representations in literature and film of a whole range of decisive technologies from the stereopticon through census-and slot-machines to the stock ticker, and from the Telex to the manipulation of genetic code and the screens which increasingly mediate our access to the world and to each other. It also investigates concepts which articulate the relation between writing and technology: number, measure, encoding, encryption, the archive, the interface.”
Contributors: Ruth Abbott, John Attridge, Kasia Boddy, Mark Byron, Beci Carver, Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Robbie Moore, Julian Murphet, James Purdon, Sean Pryor, Paul Sheehan, Kristen Treen.
Publisher Open Humanities Press, 2016
Technographies series
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License
ISBN 9781785420061
223 pages
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Jean-Claude Michel: The Black Surrealists (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · haiti, history of literature, literature, poetry, surrealism
“In their rebellion against Western civilization, the European surrealists contested their own society, of which, black surrealists were subjected to even harsher and shared the same dreadful racial memory of the slaveship. Black surrealists would strive to completely eradicate this hostile society by means of art, words, and metaphors.”
First published as Ecrivains noirs et le surréalisme, Naaman, Sherbrooke/Québec, 1982. Based on author’s 1979 dissertation from University of Michigan.
Publisher Peter Lang, 2000
Francophone Cultures and Literatures series, 29
ISBN 0820442690, 9780820442693
196 pages
Los Huevos del Plata, 0-6 (1965-66) [Spanish]
Filed under magazine | Tags: · literature, poetry
Literary magazine edited by Clemente Padín in 14 numbers (1965-69). Padín later went on to publish Ovum 10 (1969-72 & 1972-75) and stage exhibitions of visual and experimental poetry (1969-72) and mail art (1974).
Published in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1965-66
via Juan Angel Italiano, HT Derek Beaulieu
Commentary: Alfredo Alzugarat (2007, ES), Zanna Gilbert (2014, EN).
No 0a, Dec 1965
No 0b, Dec 1965
No 1, Mar 1966
No 2-3, May-Jun 1966
No 4, Aug 1966
No 4b, Aug 1966
No 5, Oct 1966
No 6, Dec 1966