Literatura y crítica

Retropost #57: 12 de diciembre de 2004

Retropost #57: 12 de diciembre de 2004

12 de diciembre  

Una blank entry es necesaria en los diarios ficticios según H. Porter Abbott. E inevitable en los reales. Pero no ha de ser hoy: cada minuto pasan cosas (y cada segundo por la cabeza). Y las que pasan a través de nosotros y a nuestro lado sin que nos demos cuenta (por ejemplo, mueve la mano delante de tí, en el aire, y seguro que hay un programa de Timón y Pumba, o un documental sobre tatuajes, o lo que sea, ahí-- sólo que careces del decodificador adecuado. También carecemos del decodificador adecuado para saber lo que están pensando de nosotros quienes piensan en nosotros).

Acabo de leerme Neuromancer de William Gibson, el clásico del ciberespacio, la matriz donde se gestó la matrix, y todo lo demás; excelente si te interesa el tema del robotic takeover del que hablaba en Hay Robot. Neuromante, nigromante, nuevo romántico, debería volver a ponerse de moda ahora que se llevan los libros de conspiraciones y ciencias oscuras. Aunque es un poco demasiado durillo de leer para la mollera media... Pero los amantes de P.K. Dick deberían amarlo, traduttora. Yo lo leo con veinte años de retraso, pero tantas cosas suceden con veinte años de retraso.

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Notas sobre Literatura y Cibercultura

Notas sobre Literatura y Cibercultura

Examinamos en estas notas una variedad de temas relacionados con las consecuencias de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación sobre la práctica y la crítica de la literatura, reseñando y comentando el volumen Literatura y Cibercultura editado por Domingo Sánchez Mesa (2004). Entre las cuestiones tratadas se enuentran el advenimiento de las humanidades digitales; el impacto de la realidad virtual sobre la creación de ficciones; la dialéctica del ciberespacio y el espacio literario; el hipertexto y la literatura ergódica; los ordenadores y los estudios literarios; la ciberdemocracia y la transformación de la esfera pública; el impacto de las TICs sobre las identidades y relaciones sociales; el cyberpunk y los nuevos desarrollos en la ciencia-ficción; la poesía y el drama digitales de vanguardia; y las implicaciones pedadógicas de las TICs por ejemplo en el aprendizaje a distancia.

Notas sobre Literatura y Cibercultura

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2620954

English abstract: 

Notes on Literature and Cyberculture

An examination of a number of issues related to the implications of ICT technology on the practice and criticism of literature, by way of a review and commentary of Domingo Sánchez Mesa's collection Literature and Cyberculture (2004). Some of the issues addressed are the advent of digital humanities; the impact of virtual reality on fiction-making; the dialectics of the literary space and cyberspace; hypertext and ergodic literature; computers and literary studies; cyberdemocracy and the transformation of the public sphere; the impact of ICT on social identities and relationships; cyberpunk and new developments in science fiction; avant-garde digital poetry and drama; and the pedagogical implications of ICT such as e-learning.

Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.

eJournal Classifications (Date posted: June 21, 2015)

AARN Subject Matter eJournals      Anthropology of Education eJournal - CMBO          AARN: Other Anthropology of Education (Topic) - CMBO

AARN Subject Matter eJournals      Cultural Anthropology eJournal - CMBO          AARN: Human Borders - Animals, Science & Technology, & Material Culture (Topic) - CMBO              AARN: Science & Technology Studies (Sub-Topic) - CMBO

CSN Subject Matter eJournals      Cognition & the Arts eJournal - CMBO          CSN: Genre & Media (Topic) - CMBO              CSN: Internet (Sub-Topic) - CMBO

ISN Subject Matter eJournals      Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods eJournal - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

Literatura y Cibercultura II

 

Self-Frankensteinization

Self-Frankensteinization

Towards the end of Stephen Crites' article "Storytime", on the narrative psychology of the self—a nightmare vision on the fixed selves we acquire, the artificial living dead we may become through a surfeit of coherence:

New variations on the same basic types of unhappiness arise when I wittingly or unwittingly confuse the recollective story with the projective scenario. On the one hand, treating my own past as if it were as indeterminate as the future, my story will be so loose and fragmentary that I cannot recollect myself out of it. I make a fairy tale of my past, and become at best an enigma to myself and others, a creature of uncommitted fantasy.

The reverse of this loss of identity is the loss of possibility entailed in the imposition of the tighter-woven recollective story on my future. Attempting to maintain my self unchanged, I impose the "will" of this self on the future. The unhappiness of that is not that I may fail, but that I may actually succeed. For then I will have locked myself into what is after all a construct recollected from the past. The self becomes its own Frankenstein, a monster of its own making, which exercises its control not only over whatever falls within its orbit as it stalks the earth, but also over its very self. I cannot free myself from the self-image I have created, which becomes more confining the more it suceeds in imposing itself.

("Storytime", 172)

 

Performing the Self

Retropost #46: 1 de diciembre de 2004

Retropost #46: 1 de diciembre de 2004

 

1 de diciembre

Ya se puede ver la página de la revista BELL: Belgian English Language and Literature que contiene mi artículo sobre "La espiral hermenéutica", está en http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/baahe/BELL2004.html

Inaugurada la futura página web de Beatriz (de momento un espacio en blanco) en esta dirección: http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/bpenas

Acabo de enterarme, por cierto, de que mi website bibliográfico (no el biográfico ni el blográfico, de momento), está entre el Top 1000 universitario del contador Nedstat Basic, de hecho entre el top 250 (va y viene). Tengo más visitas, por ejemplo, que la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Barcelona, y menos que el ICE de la Universidad de Zaragoza. En cabeza está la Universidad de Granada. Misterios.

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Para cine también valgo

Para cine también valgo

Me citan (Acción, Relato, Discurso) en esta tesis doctoral sobre análisis cinematográfico:

García Gómez, Francisco J. Metodología crítica de análisis textual en la realización fílmica. Ph.D. diss. U Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, 2015. Online at ePrints:

            http://eprints.ucm.es/29486/1/T35957.pdf

 

Story Matter for their Lives

martes, 30 de junio de 2015

Story matter for their lives

"Common games of sport and gambling are but stripped down, stylized and abbreviated dramas, inviting the direct or vicarious participation of masses of people seeking for some adventure, no matter how minuscule, to provide story matter for their lives" (Karl E. Scheibe, "Self-Narratives and Adventure" 134).

"The value of vertigo is revealed thorugh an examination of the nature of the thrill: that which James said we live for even as we live by habit" (136).

"No strictly rational argument exists for maintaining a cold war, striving in an arms race, or attaining nuclear superiority. The game is not what it seems. These adventures are required not logically but dramatically—the requirement that some sort of reasonably coherent and compelling political story line be sustained" (142).

Kurt Vonnegut on life and self stories:

"If a person survives and ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is" (Deadeye Dick, 1982, qutd. in Scheibe 143)

"Adventure creates story and contributes to the realization of completed identities. Seriousness is at risk in every venturing forth. But without the venturing forth there is no seriousness. Without the possibility of adventure, domesticity becomes a ludicrous reduction of life, and cannot be serious". (149)

From Karl E. Scheibe's "Self-Narratives and Adventure," in Narrative Psychology, ed. T. R. Sarbin.

Out of Character

Retropost #35: 19 de noviembre de 2004

lunes, 29 de junio de 2015

Retropost #35: 19 de noviembre de 2004

19 de noviembre

Hoy he recibido las separatas del artículo sobre Nabokov, "The Poetics of Subliminal Awareness" que me ha publicado el European Journal of English Studies, mi mayor pica en Flandes hasta la fecha (si bien el publisher ya no es Swets&Zeitlinger sino Routledge). ¿Alguien me da la enhorabuena? "Tant d'heures enfuies / au mirage des mots" que decía la Gréco. Y los destellos de luz en un ojo, casi imperceptibles en medio de tanto papel. No me resisto a recomendar este fragmento de Shakespeare como comentario adicional:

 

Why! all delights are vain, but that most vain, Which with pain purchas'd doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book To seek the light of truth; while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look: Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Study me how to please the eye indeed, By fixing it upon a fairer eye, Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

En un rato de aburrimiento en un examen, termino de leer el libro sobre el estilo de Middleton Murry, me dedico a hacer dibujos y compongo (o ensamblo non ex nihilo) este poema, al que nombro, como su godfather,

 

Keats's Living Hand   "This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again--" --No, better say you've wished your own heart dry of blood, So in her veins red life might stream for you, And you be conscience-calm'd--Impatient (like the wind) You turn to share the wish, with whom but her, But in those eyes unmovéd, cold like holograms, You see no warmth--you grasp the wind, the story's known, It's often been rehearsed, unhappy shadow; Follow still your fair sun, till both at once do fade, The sun unmovéd, cold, the shadow (now a shade) Forever telling what is told, still grasping out, But who will shake hands with the dead. --And yet that hand, this living hand --see here it is-- I hold it towards you.

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Manual de análisis narrativo

omingo, 28 de junio de 2015

Manual de análisis narrativo

Me citan en este Handbook of Narrative Analysis:

18.3. Handbook of Narrative Analysis by VivianaAndreaMahecha