The Heaviness of Light

By Kristina Igliukaite, 1 October, 2019
Author
Eugenio Tisselli
Presented at Event
Electronic Literature Organization 2017: Affiliations, Translations, Communities (ELO 2017)
Publisher
MATLIT: Materialities of Literature
URL
Research Gate
MATLIT
Appears in
Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from electronic book review. Volume 2
License
CC Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
community
technology
Anthropocene
pharmakon
writing
ELO 2017 conference
ELO 2017
Abstract (in English)

This text explores the material implications of electronic reading and writing in the Anthropocene. It does so by briefly examining the consequences that the production and usage of electronic devices has on ecosystems and social contexts. Different perspectives on how a reader or writer may deal with the negative effects of sociotechnical systems are offered: restraint, pharmacological awareness and togetherness. Such perspectives can be transformed into reading and writing tools for the Anthropocene that may allow readers and writers of electronic literature to integrate the notion of an extended community, that is, an intimate and paradoxical complicity with nearby and remote humans and non-humans, and invite them into the digital text

Source:(1) (PDF) The Heaviness of Light. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332523774_The_Heaviness_of_Light [accessed Oct 01 2019].

Description in original language
Portuguese
Abstract (in original language)

Este texto explora as implicações materiais da leitura e escrita eletrónicas no Antropoceno. Faz isso examinando brevemente as consequências que a produção e o uso de dispositivos eletrónicos têm nos ecossistemas e nos contextos sociais. São oferecidas diferentes perspetivas sobre como um leitor ou escritor pode lidar com os efeitos negativos dos sistemas sociotécnicos: contenção, consciência farmacológica e sentido de comunhão. Tais perspetivas podem ser transformadas em ferramentas de leitura e escrita para o Antropoceno que permitam aos leitores e escritores de literatura eletrónica integrar a noção de comunidade alargada, ou seja, de uma cumplicidade íntima e paradoxal com humanos e não humanos próximos e remotos, convidando-os a entrar no texto digital.

Fonte:(1) (PDF) The Heaviness of Light. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332523774_The_Heaviness_of_Light [accessed Oct 01 2019].