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How E-lit Revalues Computational Practice
Chapter 4
REVEALING AND TRANSFORMING: HOW ELECTRONIC LITERATURE REVALUES COMPUTATIONAL PRACTICE
Works discussed in this chapter “engage networked and programmable media not just as technical practices, but as integral components of understanding what it means to be human in a computational era” (131)
Literature “activates a recursive feedback loop between knowledge realized in the body through gesture, ritual, performance, posture, and enactment, and knowledge realized in the neocortex as conscious and explicit articulations” (132)
“Verbal narratives are simultaneously conveyed and disrupted by code”
Breakdowns remind us that integration with machines have changed our world
“distributed cognition implies distributed agency”
cognition doesn’t happen in one mind but is distributed across different minds, contexts, technologies
These intermediations mean that “computation evolves into something more than a technical practice, through of course it is also that. It becomes a powerful way to reveal to us the implications of our contemporary situation, creating revelations that work both within and beneath conscious thought” (157)
How the Chapter Breaks Down:
pp131-138: Introduction
pp139-155: Recursive Interactions
155-157: Revaluing Computational Practice