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“Just Not the Future”

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“Just Not the Future”

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Taking on Digital Writing

“Just Not the Future”

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“Just Not the Future” book

Taking on Digital Writing
ByStuart Moulthrop
BookThe Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 12
eBook ISBN 9781315518497

ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on digital writing, an ill-defined and perilously large subject, from what once may have passed for its bleeding edge: e-poetry, net art, and other forms of linguistic experiment belonging to what Alan Liu has called "the future literary". Writing is always a larger subject than literature, perhaps greater even than an augmented "literary". To a large extent, digital writing now serves class disruption and rogue contextualization, a regime where truth collapses into truth-effects and fraud becomes the new normal. The one digital difference that may suggest redemptive possibility may be the point at which writing disrupts itself—when, through the indexical power of digital memory, it points to something else. Under computation and digital storage, and assuming address protocols can be suitably improved, the indexical impulse seems set for exponential expansion. Sandy Baldwin applies two terms of critique: the "detritus" is both "mass" and "marked".

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