Writing under [electronic resource] : selections from the internet text / Alan Sondheim ; with an introduction by Sandy Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sondheim, Alan.

Series:

Computing literature ; v. 2.

Computing literature ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Internet--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, W.V. : Center for Literary Computing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alan Sondheim's Writing Under explores and examines what happens to writing as it takes place on and through the networked computer. Sondheim began experimenting with artistic and philosophical writing using computers in the early 1970's. Since 1994, he has explored the possibilities of writing on the Internet, whether using blogs, web pages, e-mails, virtual worlds, or other tools. The sum total of Sondheim's writing online is entitled "The Internet Text." Writing Under selects from this work to provide insight into how writing takes place today and into the unique practices of a writer. The selections range from philosophical musings, to technical explorations of writing practice, to poetic meditations on the writer online. This work expands our understanding of writing today and charts a path for writing's future.

Contents:

""Computing Literature Series Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""You're Out There""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preposterous Justifications""; ""a summing-up""; ""of the book""; ""A Field so Vast, the Other is Lost in the Details""; ""My Future is Your Own Aim""; ""Writing Online""; ""Oh! I do love Her so!""; ""Writing in Minimal Fare""; ""Writing habits""; ""Electronic writing, approach""; ""Filter and Being (NSF Text)""; ""Wryting-space""; ""Wryting and""; ""Definition of Wryting""; ""Wryting, Culling Wryting""; ""Tenets of Wryting-Theory""; ""Writing and Wryting""; ""writing and writing""

""Extinguishing Extinction, The Violence of Living/Mechanism""" "and letters""; ""Truth""; ""Sentenced to Place""; ""Peering""; ""O""; ""Wild Theory""; ""CONDITION READ""; ""The Fitting of Theory""; ""Bang-Path Model of Reading/Thinking""; ""Commentary on Routing text -""; ""Explain""; ""My Files on My Nice-Machine:""; ""What was written by null-user:""; ""What the null-user thought of what it wrote:""; ""Codeworld""; ""On Code and Codework""; ""Code and Codework ii, coding, encoding, confusion""; ""What is Codework?""; ""birth of code unease""; ""Abacus""

""conjugations of programming aesthetics"" ""The Derailing of Metaphysics""; ""unun""; ""Human, specifications, outline, history""; ""curlicue""; ""Virtual, not Real""; ""Messay: The Mess of the True World""; ""[the disturbance of the] Political Economy of Language Identity""; ""Partial Description of the World""; ""The Curious""; ""Writing for the Return of It""; ""this was done to occupy a space""; ""Introductory Preface and Postface, or Open Bracketing of the W/Hole""; ""About the Authors""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-935978-75-6

OCLC:

837601929