critical edition

By Scott Rettberg, 19 June, 2014
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Abstract (in English)

Schools as well as universities have subjected writing to the dogma of access to knowledge and to the imperative of communication for too long.

They have restricted it to the role of an instrument which goes along with cognitive capitalism (Yann Moulier Boutang), by industrial production of knowledge, thereby steadily removing its artistic, aesthetic and political dimensions (Luc Dall’Armellina).

In today’s situation, for most pupils and students, writing is nothing but a compulsory step, a skill among others, a technique one has to manipulate for it is required in order to do well at school, whatever the subject.

Abstract (in original language)

L’école comme l’université ont trop long- temps asservi l’écriture au seul dogme de l’accès aux savoirs et à l’injonction de la communication.

Elles l’ont cantonnée à un rôle instrumental, en marge du sillage du capitalisme cognitif (Yann Moulier Boutang), à travers des modes de production industrielle des connaissances, la vidant peu à peu de ses dimensions artistiques, esthétiques et politiques (Luc Dall’Armellina, a).

La situation est telle aujourd’hui qu’écrire n’est plus pour la plupart des élèves et étudiants qu’un passage obligé, une compétence parmi d’autres, une technique qu’il faut bien manipuler puisqu’elle est nécessaire pour réussir à l’école, quelle que soit sa discipline.

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This day-long workshop revolves around the notion of paratext, a literary theory first presented by French narratologist Gérard Genette in 1987 (Seuils / English translation "Paratexts. Thresholds of Interpretation" 1997).Originally envisioned in relation to manuscripts and printed text, the theory of paratext ambitioned to describe how texts materialise through the distribution and presentation of textual and contextual information that accompanies and structures text.In digital contexts, the paratextual dimension tends to exhibit new qualities.This workshop focuses on paratext theory in digital realms and explore how paratext may offer a common ground for scholars in information and library science and in other humanistic disciplines.

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