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[1] From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca> (24)
Subject: RE: 21.107 no poetry on the Web??? [Digital Humanities
Summer Institute]
[2] From: schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au (48)
Subject: Re: 21.107 no poetry on the Web???
[3] From: Tatjana Chorney <tatjana.chorney_at_SMU.CA> (42)
Subject: RE: 21.107 no poetry on the Web???
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:43:48 +0100
From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca>
Subject: RE: 21.107 no poetry on the Web??? [Digital
Humanities Summer Institute]
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:34:22 +0100
From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
Humanities Summer Institute
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> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:44:33 +0100
> From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca>
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> Why is there is no poetry on the Web? A look at the incompatible
> differences between written and digital media
A title one hopes is intended to be provocative, as opposed to merely naive.
-- Hi Matt -- About the approach of the title: you'll be the best judge, I'd think, though the former is most likely, as you already suggest. The webpage and CV of Ollivier Dyens -- the digital poet and academic who is speaking to this topic -- is at this URL: http://francais.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&I temid=160. We intend to have video of all institute speakers available on the website as the week progresses (see www.dhsi.org). Dyens' talk is this coming Friday morning. Cheers, Ray --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:44:12 +0100 From: schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au Subject: Re: 21.107 no poetry on the Web??? Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 107. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html > www.princeton.edu/humanist/ > Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu > > > > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:34:22 +0100 > From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com> > > Humanities Summer Institute > > > >--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:44:33 +0100 > > From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca> > > > [. . .] > > > Why is there is no poetry on the Web? A look at the incompatible > > differences between written and digital media > > A title one hopes is intended to be provocative, as opposed to merely naive. > > > -- > > Matthew Kirschenbaum > Assistant Professor of English > Associate Director, > Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) > University of Maryland > 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) > http://www.mith.umd.edu/ > http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ > I think this is at least partly due to our failure in finding a suitable form for poetry in the digital world. It differs from prose in that almost all poetical works go through a much longer series of drafts. The text emerges almost like a dimmer switch being turned up, gradually focussing on the images the poet wants to convey. I like the quote from Paul Valery: 'There are no finished poems, only abandoned ones'. We can't represent that yet in the digital medium where everything must be so stark and explicit. Actually the print medium was worse: one couldn't change a text once printed but one can change an electronic text. When the transformation to a digital society is finally complete there may be a place for poetry in it. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:45:17 +0100 From: Tatjana Chorney <tatjana.chorney_at_SMU.CA> Subject: RE: 21.107 no poetry on the Web??? Hi, I would be very interested in hearing/reading the lecture below--will it be posted somewhere? Best, Tatjana Tatjana Chorney Department of English Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS Canada -----Original Message----- From: Humanist Discussion Group [mailto:humanist_at_Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 4:45 AM To: humanist_at_Princeton.EDU Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 107. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:34:22 +0100 From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com> Subject: Re: 21.103 events: e-Science lectures; Digital Humanities Summer Institute >--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:44:33 +0100 > From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca> > [. . .] > Why is there is no poetry on the Web? A look at the incompatible > differences between written and digital media A title one hopes is intended to be provocative, as opposed to merely naive. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 02:17:55 EDT
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