Notes on the role of technical evolution in electronic literature production and criticism
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This paper discusses the often-neglected role of technical evolution regarding the approach to both works and tools linked to the praxis of Electronic Literature. To do so, it dialogues with scholarship on the subject-matter (BARNET, 2013, BARNET; ELDREDGE, 2004, ELDREDGE, 2011) to point out the possibility of a measurable way of accounting such evolution and its stages over time by means of the observation of Moore's Law (MOORE, 1965). From that point on, taking the hypertext writing environment Storyspace (BOLTER; JOYCE, 1987) as an example, one proposes the concepts of techno-historical context and technoanachrony, and discusses the possible risk incurred due to the non-observance of its premises concerning criticism on technological objects.References
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