Open AccessWEAPONS OF THE DECONSTRUCTIVE MASSES (WDM): WHATEVER ELETRONIC LITERATURE MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN
Author(s) -
John Cayley
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
revista de estudos literários
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2183-847X
DOI - 10.14195/2183-847x_2_1
Subject(s) - metaphor , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , meditation , aesthetics , psychology , literature , philosophy , art , computer science , artificial intelligence , theology
An attempt to hasten the death of the ‘electronic’ in ‘electronic literature ’ – to re-cognize it as a dead metaphor – becomes an agonistic meditation on my generation’s anticipation of the death of literature itself, with ‘the literary,’ potentially, waiting in the wings.