The Center for Literary Computing and West Virginia University Press announce the publication of Writing Under: Selections From the Internet Text by Alan Sondheim. This extraordinary collection of work explores and examines what happens to writing as it takes place on and through the networked computer.
Alan Sondheim is a Brooklyn-based new media artist, musician, writer, and performer. He is concerned with issues of virtuality, and the stake that the real world has in the virtual. He began experimenting with artistic and philosophical writing using computers in the early 1970s. Since 1994, he has explored the possibilities of writing on the Internet, whether using blogs, web pages, e–mails, virtual worlds, or other tools. The sum total of Sondheim’s writing online is entitled “The Internet Text.”
Writing Under selects from this work to provide insight into how writing takes place today and into the unique practices of a writer. The selections range from philosophical musings, to technical explorations of writing practice, to poetic meditations on the writer online. This work expands our understanding of writing today and charts a path for writing’s future.
John Cayley of Brown University proclaims Alan Sondheim to be “the poet, the artist, the maker who has most profoundly immersed himself and his work in the life-changing code-forms-of networked computation-that have the world and its ‘genesis redux’ in their grip.”
Christopher T. Funkhouser of New Jersey Institute of Technology says, “anyone interested in knowing more about (or from) a writer who has practiced and thrived on the Internet since its very beginnings needs to read this book.”
Writing Under is part of the Computing Literature series published by the Center for Literary Computing at WVU. As a leader in new media studies and digital humanities, the center develops many projects along with Computing Literature, including hosting and editing electronic book review, one of the longest running peer-reviewed journals on the web, and organizing many conference and workshops.
Computing Literature is a book series by the center and is distributed by WVU Press. Edited by Professor Sandy Baldwin of WVU and Professor Philippe Bootz of the Universit� Paris 8, this series is the first and only academic book series devoted to analysis and criticism of literature as it enters the world of computers and digital networks, bringing together digital writing and literature in dynamic, exciting, and problematic encounters.
To order this title or to learn more about this book, visit www.wvupress.com or phone (800) 621-2736. To learn more about the Computing Literature series visit http://www.clc.wvu.edu/.
Writing Under: Selections From the Internet Text by Alan Sondheim
December 2012/216pp
ePub 978-1-935978-74-9/$19.99
PB 978-1-935978-73-2/$19.99
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