Between immateriality and physical emphasis: some literary experiments in the digital context

Authors

  • Germán Abel Ledesma Universidad Nacional del Sur - Conicet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2017v13n2p3

Abstract

Taking into account the experiences of "dematerialization of the object" experienced by the neovanguard of the sixties, we propose to approach a corpus of Argentine digital literature from the point of view of its materiality. Specifically, we refer to Manifiestos Robots (2009) by Belén Gache, the Milton Läufer’s textual essays (2010) (2014) (2017) and El peronismo spam (s/n) by Charly Gradin. From this corpus, following the concepts of "formal materiality" and "forensic materiality" crystallized by Matthew Kirshenbaum (2008), we recover the concern about the materiality of apparently dematerialized works. For this we perform an analysis of plastic procedures that take to a material level the linguistic sign.

Author Biography

Germán Abel Ledesma, Universidad Nacional del Sur - Conicet

Dpto. Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina - Conicet

Published

2017-12-21

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Articles