Але про ці теми мало говорили. Чому? Як на мене, так сталося через те, що в наших комуністичних країнах не було історії: ми мали не історію, а ідеологію – себто історію, інтерпретовану так, як хотілося партії. А це вже не історія.
а чи існує інша, не ідеологічна історія?
the book is dead, long live the link
Really nice and funny quote :)
Emerson writes in her blog-post “On e-literature as a field” that “what did not exist until the founding of the Electronic Literature Organization in 1999 (thanks to Scott Rettberg, Robert Coover, and Jeff Ballowe) is a name, a concept, even a brand with which a remarkably diverse range of digital writing practices could identify: electronic literature.”
The founding of ELO seems a very important event in the histiry of e-Lit.
Put simply, Electronic Literature is considered a "born digital" art form with unique approaches to thinking about and working with digital technologies for the purpose of creating literary art.
This is the best and the simpliest definition.
The confrontation with technology at the level of creation is what distinguishes electronic literature from, for example, e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other products of print authors “going digital.”
It's not quite clear for me what does mean "confrontation with technology". By the way, understanding difference between e-lit and literature "going digital" is the most important