Abstract (in English)
This essay argues that the poetic turn from nothing to form art tends to “diabolic”strategies in present language allowing for a self-referential presentation of cultural distinctions.This poetic deconstruction of symbolic forms such as man/machine, male/female,or 0/1 is closely related to humor and gender in cultural and artistic performances.This shall be illustrated by discussing two examples of language art in the fi eld of digitalelectronics: the interactive installation Die Amme by Peter Dittmer and female extension, asubversive net art project by Cornelia Sollfrank. These projects are interpreted as genderedforms of the poetic as comic self-observation.
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