"At last, here is a book written by an Italian about the
homeopathic but essential role that Italian artists, and among
them, important writers, have played to introduce the digital
transformation to Italians. Long before government or business, and
least of all educators, took notice, artists, as was their wont for
centuries, were the first to reveal the potential of the new
technologies. Emanuela Patti not only pays them a long overdue
tribute, but along the way revisits with care and engaging style
the key features of that transformation. A wonderful read!"
(Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, University of Toronto) "We were
missing a systematic survey of e-literary arts in Italy. Emanuela
Patti has filled that void. Indeed, her study is much more than a
survey: it brilliantly connects semiotic theories of open
textuality to the profound techno-cultural transformations of
socio-political life from the 1960s to the present, from
experimental writing to popular culture." (Professor Massimo Riva,
Brown University) In 1962, Umberto Eco published Opera aperta,
setting the ground for a new wave of creative experimentation
across the arts and media. The concept of "open work" - informed by
systems theory, cybernetics, relativism, pragmatism and other
influential disciplines of the time - was used by Eco to reconsider
the work of art as a site for interactivity, collaboration and
intermediality. Starting from this perspective, this book
reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking
at creative practices across literature, electronic and digital
media from the early days of computers to the social media age. It
examines how Italian writers, poets, literary critics and
intellectuals have responded to each phase of the digital
revolution, by enacting "poetics of openness" and "politics of
intermediality". Case studies include Nanni Balestrini, Gianni
Toti, Italo Calvino, Caterina Davinio, Wu Ming, Michela Murgia,
Francesco Pecoraro, Roberto Saviano, Tommaso Pincio, Fabio Viola,
Fabrizio Venerandi and Enrico Colombini. In some cases, literary
experimentation with new technologies has taken a clear polemical
stance towards mass media, globalisation, information society and
late capitalism, in order to challenge and/or reconfigure artistic
or social ontologies. In others, digital technologies have been
used to enhance and extend the parameters and "languages" of
literature.
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