Computing Literature Vol. 4: PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia

PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia is a "radical and polemical work. It is polemical in displacing and re-situating accepted views and histories of electronic literature. It also displaces and re-situates view and histories of avant-garde writing from Portugal. It is radical in going to the roots of its topics, providing a systematic and persuasive account of cyberliterature and intermedia. For all this, it is a generous book. The polemics are aimed not to take apart but to construct a larger and more expansive field. The radical account of cyberliterature and intermedia is practical, and points to real and everyday ways of reading and writing. . . . What is PO.EX? The PO refers to 'Portuguese' and the EX to 'Experimental' literature, but the parts of the title could be read otherwise. Perhaps they can be replaced with Poetic and Experience? All the readings are simultaneous: poetry, Portuguese, experience, experimentation—and many other possible expressions—all in full operation. Once again, Deleuze and Guattari write: 'experimentation is always that which is in the process of coming about—the new, remarkable, and interesting that replace the appearance of truth and are more demanding than it is' (111). PO.EX, in all its readings, is a book of essays for experimentation. Here are your instructions: take this as a handbook and begin experimenting poetically." -- Sandy Baldwin and Rui Torres, "Introduction"

CONTENTS

• "Introduction" by the editors
• "Prelude 1 - the H2 Robot" by Ana Hatherly
• "Prelude 2 - Contribution Towards a Quantum Theory of the Hypertext" by Pedro Barbosa

VISUALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE

• "Preface" by Ana Hatherly
• "The New Presence of the Past in the Present: A Critical Re-reading
• of Tradition" by Ana Hatherly
• "The Critical Experience of Poetry - 1, 2, and 3" by Ana Hatherly
• "Short Essay" by Ana Hatherly
• "Excursus A - Experimental Poetry" by E. M. de Melo e Castro
• "Numerology and Programmatic Poetry" by E. M. de Melo e Castro
• "An Intersemiotic Network" by E. M. de Melo e Castro

COMBINATION AND GENERATIVITY IN CYBERLITERATURE

• "Perspectives and Virtualities of the Virtual Text" by Pedro Barbosa
• "Towards a Theory of Computer Generated Texts" by Pedro Barbosa
• "The Machine or the Inside of a Void Thought" by Pedro Barbosa
• "Generative Aesthetics and Standard Models for Computer
• Generated Texts" by Pedro Barbosa
• "A New Concept of Work" by Pedro Barbosa
• "The dead must be killed once again: Plagiotropia as Critical
• Literary Practice" by Rui Torres
• "Portuguese Experimental Poetry—Revisited and Recreated" by Pedro Reis
• "Flash Script Poex: Digital Recoding of the Experimental Poem" by Manuel Portela