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In the 17th century, Leibniz proposed to create an encyclopedia that would bring together all the fields of human knowledge. This led him to be interested in the works of Raimundo Llull, Athanasius Kircher or John Dee and to anticipate the ideas of Vannevar Bush or Ted Nelson by several centuries.The book of the end of the world is also constituted as an encyclopedia, only, in this case, it is an unfinished and open corpus, providing a questioning about the space of identities and differences according to which we distribute, recognize and name our world.Reminiscent of Aloysius Bertrand, Marcel Schwob, or medieval bestiaries, The Book of the End of the World proposes the creation of different possible worlds, autonomous universes, each with its own order, laws, and regularities.The inclusion of hypertext works and the link to the book's site on the Internet emphasize the notions of non-linearity and bifurcation implicit in the conception of the work.

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En el siglo XVII, Leibniz propuso crear una enciclopedia que reuniera todos los campos del conocimiento humano. Ésto lo llevó a interesarse por los trabajos de Raimundo Llull, Athanasius Kircher o John Dee y adelantarse en varios siglos a las ideas de Vannevar Bush o Ted Nelson.El libro del fin del mundo se constituye igualmente como una enciclopedia sólo que en este caso se trata de un corpus inacabado y abierto, proporcionando un cuestionamiento acerca del espacio de identidades y diferencias según las cuales distribuimos, reconocemos y nombramos nuestro mundo.Con reminiscencias de Aloysius Bertrand, Marcel Schwob o los bestiarios medievales, El libro del fin del mundo plantea la creación de diferentes mundos posibles, universos autónomos, cada uno con su propio orden, leyes y regularidades.La inclusión de trabajos hipertextuales y el vínculo con el sitio del libro en Internet enfatizan las nociones de no linealidad y bifurcación implícitas en la concepción de la obra.

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El libro del fin del mundo
By Chiara Agostinelli, 15 October, 2018
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What are we talking about when we say “digital literature” today? If the early works of electronic literature – hypertext fiction, hypermedia literature, generative texts – could be identified by the distinguishing feature of hyperlink or technology in a wider sense, nowadays Twitterature, literary blogs, and Facebook writings challenge more and more the possibility to define this kind of literature under a solely technology-based perspective. The Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities' project “Répertoire des écrivaines et écrivains numériques,” inspired by the CELL project, is an attempt to mind the existing gap between these new textual objets and literary studies. In this presentation, we will show and discuss the criteria upon which we have defined what is a digital literary object and a digital author, the archiving modalities of those objects, and the epistemological structure of our project in order to think about the impact of the digital turn on literary concepts such as author, authorship, literary work, and genre.

Source: https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/nt2/en/elo2018/schedule/619/The+%…

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In the hypertext story La hermandad de los escribanos the reader becomes the main character. The story is in a folder that can be directly downloaded from the website. A fraternity founded in the Middle Ages takes control of the user and he must read the narrative in a determinate time with enough attention to answer to a number of questions. The work combines text with multimedia elements once it is incorporated characteristics of interactive games. It is different from a game in the fact that the most important thing is the story and not the interactivity. It is a narrative in which everything is put in the right order and apart from the interactivity it can be read coherently.

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