pioneers

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The first "Unspeakable Practices" festival, in 1988, was a gathering of the postmodernist generation at the time of the retirement of Professor John Hawkes. The second was a 1993 encounter between print and electronic writers during the pioneer days of hypertext fiction.
The third featured a discussion on literary hypertext.

Source: Festival Announcement, Brown University

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By Jill Walker Rettberg, 24 March, 2011
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Extensive blog post in GrandTextAuto arguing that Christopher Strachey's love letter generator was in fact the first work of digital literature, with many references and quotations. A debate follows in the comments, for instance discussing the idea that the generator may be a form of anti-literature, a parody of literature.

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