A-Poetic Technology. #GraphPoem and the Social Function of Computational Performance
(2020) DH Benelux Journal — Vol. 2, n° 1, p. 1-17 (2020)
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- The article exploits the opportunities of computational processing of literary corpora with a focus on its social and technical aspects. The #GraphPoem project relies on the hypothesis of a performative networked sociality of poetry in digital culture depending on both humans, poems and machines. The project intends to highlight the way in which poetic texts shape their environment and create the conditions for their reception as they are disseminated within digital media. Starting from such an assumption requires us to go beyond the poetry, and to investigate how medial and computational features actively forge the text as a poem in this digital context. The essay’s scientific approach is based on a theoretical framework that integrates both the philosophy of Simondon's technique, and the reappropriation of von Uexkull's Umwelt concept by J. A. Schwarz. It leads to an algorithmic treatment of a corpus of digitized poems which intends to uncover the network of relationships in which they are intertwined. It also includes a participatory perspective involving the public in interactive digital performances of computational poetry in order to underline the social dimension of the writing-reading process of poetry through digital spaces.
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Tanasescu, C., & et al. (2020). A-Poetic Technology. #GraphPoem and the Social Function of Computational Performance. DH Benelux Journal, 2(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.17613/80sx-m116 (Original work published 2020)