Article or chapter in a book

Participants in 21st-century literary cultures will need to be vigilant in tactically resisting the monopolization of the word (by corporations such as Alphabet, Google’s parent company) while adapting to transformations in computational media and complex technical systems. For these “cognitive technologies,” Kate (Katherine) Hayles reminds us, “are now a potent force in our planetary cognitive ecology” (Hayles, Unthought 19). They are rapidly altering how coevolving human-technical systems (cognitive assemblages) process information; and through multiple feedback loops, they are processually transforming multiple levels of human consciousness and how we humans think.

Editors, for their part, aim to optimize the context for a works reception, listening and looking out for stimulating respondents and providing relatively stable-publicatation forums where moderated dialogues between authors, readers, and texts texts: this was the model, at least, for publishing in the Gutenberg Era. Digital publication and distribution is disrupting this model, radically. How can literary studies adapt in the emergent Programming Era?

My appeal to networked collaboration and collaborative networks returns us to the issue of resistance and its relation to agency, the ability to act in transformative ways. Agengy, at ebr, has always been understood as being distributed across networked systems comprised of exchanges between interconnected human and nonhuman actants (Rasmussen 282).

Those Trojan Girls moves beyond that aesthetic with other features. Sculptural hypertext allows, as he explains it, for “sections where almost anything can follow nearly anything else” (Bernstein, "Those Trojan Girls: A Discussion”). Likewise, stretchtext, animated links, the sliding window, and customizable interface embue the work with the feel of experimental interactive media. In sum, it functions as a bridge between then and now, connecting classical Storyspace to channel a classic story. 

of day of night joins other journey stories from the Western literary tradition that explore the struggle of human beings to make sense of life and of their lives.

If my study of the 13 editions of Joyce’s afternoon, a story sheds light on the challenges of keeping a work alive amid technological innovation, [1] then this study of the critical response to Moulthrop’s Victory Garden reveals the way in which a work lives on despite the lack of accessibility to it.