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Questions? Talk to Our Docent

Almost three weeks have passed since the opening of No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica, and while we wait for the second phase to be in place (we are working on having a website component that will expand the visitor’s experience via QR codes, by offering further curatorial and catalogue information), I am happy to announce Questions? Talk to Our Docent

We Are Open! No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica

Last Friday we opened No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica (NL||LE), an exhibit curated by me and Élika Ortega now on display at the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery in Doe Library (right in the center of the University of California, Berkeley).

Alternativas a la (ciencia) ficción en España ||Alternative (Science) Fictions

[ES] Tengo el gusto de compartir con vosotros un artículo que acabo de publicar en un especial sobre literatura electrónica en español en Letras Hispanas, “Paperless Text: Digital Storytelling in Latin America and Spain (1976-2016)”, bajo la edición de Osvlado Cleger y Phillip Penix-Tadsen. Mi texto, “Alternativas a la (ciencia) ficción en España: dos ejemplos Alternativas a la (ciencia) ficción en España ||Alternative (Science) Fictions

No Legacy || Opening Symposium

To celebrate the opening of the e-lit exhibit No Legacy || Literatura electrónica at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library, please join us in two round tables discussing critical approaches to electronic literature (at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science). In the afternoon, at 5:30 (at the Morrison Library), we’ll have an artist spotlight where two digital No Legacy || Opening Symposium

The New Sentence

  Pretty words I found reading Ron Silliman. Some of them, he meant to write but didn’t get to. hallucinated dreamlike interwoven emphasis closure rhythm absence shaping syllogistic move deduce   huracán   emotional   The sentence is the horizon,   border torque polysemy   silencio líquido A.

Carmen’s Interlocutor, my drawer

Carmen Martín Gaite said that her need for writing came from her constant and failed search for the perfect interlocutor and insisted upon the fact that people wouldn’t need to write if they had someone who would listen. She was so obsessed about this some critics considered her work mono-thematic, saying that frustrated search was Carmen’s Interlocutor, my drawer