The Digital
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Joint Digital Authorship Project with Paris 8
The emergence of digital technologies and their increasing importance in the production and reception of culture has fundamentally transformed the meaning and lived reality of authorship. The models developed at […]
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Literature beyond the book – Festival Extra!
From the 5th to the 9th September 2018, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held the second edition of its Festival Extra!, looking into what happens ‘when literature leaves the book’. […]
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Literature goes beyond the book – and we go with it!
From the 5th to the 9th September 2018, the Centre Pompidou in Paris opens the second edition of its Festival Extra!, which proposes to show what happens ‘when literature leaves […]
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Multilingual Digital Authorship (Symposium Report)
The World Wide Web is commonly perceived as the ultimate tool of homogenizing culture through dominant platforms such as Google and Facebook, and consequently as the major culprit in the […]
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Literature in the Digital Space: Beyond the Amateur-Professional Binary
While often presented as a threat to reading and literature, digital technology has opened the literary space by adding entirely new dimensions to it. “Amateur” authors have more opportunity than […]
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Screening the Literary: Writing Quality on the Web
Workshop at Lancaster University 28 October 2016 Venue: Infolab C60b/c Claims abound regarding the potential death of the printed book and its consequences for culture and society, and studies on […]
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How to (say) “rewrite”?
On his website tierslivre.net, French author and pioneer in electronic literature and publishing François Bon reflects on his email exchange with Erika Fülöp regarding his recent project of recopying and republishing electronically his second novel, Limite, originally published in […]
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Blog: Critical Challenges to Literary Celebrity
As we gear up for the third event in our series on literary celebrity, we thought we should share the growing archive of our reflections on the topic. This […]
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Blog: World Authorship. Three Computational Frameworks, by Andrew Piper
Andrew Piper.is the director of txtLAB, the digital humanities laboratory at McGill University. He explores the use of computational and quantitative approaches to understand literary and cultural phemonena in both […]
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Blog: Connecting Readers and Writers
Jim Hinks is the Digital Editor at Comma Press and a part-time PhD candidate at Edge Hill University, where he’s researching Narratology in Short Fiction. Comma Press is an independent […]
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