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<nettime> Net.Wurking An Active Discourse: The Art & ][mezangelled][ Times of Net.Literature |
[This article o' mine first appeared in the _Meanjin_ Poetics Edition,Volume 60, No. 2, 2001. I thought nettimers might find it thought-provoking in terms of an established literary journal publishing a poetics piece obviously designed/formatted for networked mediums.] ******************************************* >Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:41:34 +1000 >To: meanjin_readers@deadtree.media.au >From: "][mez][" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au> >Subject: Net.Wurking An Active Discourse:The Art & ][mezangelled][ Times of >Net.Literature >> _Net.Drenching - Creating The Con.Text_ > > .[insert a projected:] >wired contemporary culture swaying 2ward the + >enveloping & reiteration <of> >broad telecommunicative <or> networked phenomenon > .[=] >an emergent parallel language/meme shift > .. . . . [blip]<static> . . . [.connecting 2 CS <Comprehension Server>, please wait.] . . . . . . [.connection established] [.downloading context.patch . [context.exe consists of a reader] [.u.] .. [who is an open-ended, active absorber].. [ie will attempt 2 engage] [the vagaries of a networked text] ... [in this dead tree <static> media] . . . . .. . .. . . .. . . ...] . . . . . . . [.re.establishing _Net.Drench_ connection] . . . [.connection established] ..</static> .. > > .[this] >infomatic-shift can be sampled directly >via the Internet [or World Wide Web] itself > ..[as well as being entrenched in] >the action of corporate structures <or> institutions >who r currently rallying to protect >telemetric information production. .. . . > ..[this shift is] >already making an impact on >several strands of nascent literature >that rely on networked conventions & jargon >4 their production. .. . . . [context software insert here:] .hordes of .emailers + .International Relay Chatters + .MOO/MUDites .ICQers + .Y-talkers + .ascii cuneiformers + .coders = .knitting & .morphing & .developing a ._new_code_text_fabric . . [end: insert] . . . >These emergent genre/s of net.literature [have] >@ their origins a basic resurgence of the written form >[via email and chat-based >software-driven communication.] . . [4 more information, click on context software link above]. .. .[.well.] .. .[in a hypertextual crθche = browser] .[u *would* be able to access] . .[additional information <or have>] . .[meanings spliced & extended via] . .[linked windowed nuances] .[howeva] .[in simple words, the challenge becomes] ... .[a context credit <or> debit] .[depending on yr world [wide web] view] . . . . . .. . .. . . .. . . ... .. . .. . . . ... . >This text-communication revival .[is] >impacting <through> incremental learning/methods ><& on> replication techniques such as the >canonised linear/narrative structure >that "literature" still writhes under. . .. . .. . . .. . . ... .. . .. . . . ... . . >>_Net.Tectonics - Exploring The Nuances_ . . [searching 4 host] . [host found:] . . ... . .. [logging on2: mezangelled text zone] . ..*&%4????? [Be prepared 4 re:wiring/writing/routing] [eg. A mezangelled rewrite of this section's title wood b: _Net.Te][xt][ctonics - X.ploring The N][ew][uances_] > > >the _mezangelled_ textual system is one x.ample ><of> net.literature that is currently m.pacting ><on> the way poetic writing is ][re][constructed >& promulgated via a networked [or net.worked] >system. . . <SO:> . . .<IF:> .this system evolved/s largely from a gradual process of network element integration <BY:> .employing [and developing] a dynamic that demands the use of network-dependant modes of communication [namely through a clutch of software such as email programs, International Relay Chat or IRC, and MOOs/Multi-User Object Oriented systems] in order to converse with fellow users .<THEN:> .begins a process of adaptation and application of certain chat-based conventions into hybrid writing/poetic styles .this process began in 1995 and is still colouring the current mezangelled version/system, .which is constantly changing + is flavoured by the contextual hinges that surround it, ie .the markers of the medium itself. .<GO TO:> .multifarious email exchanges .computer code flavoured language .net iconographs . . [n.sert learning curve .here.] . . >2 _mezangelle_ means to take >words/wordstrings/sentences and alter them ><in> such a way as to x.tend and n.hance >meaning b.yond the predicted or the x.pected. >It's similar to making "plain" text >hypertextual via the arrangement & >dissection of words. >Mezangelling @tempts 2 >x.pand traditional text parameters ><through> layered/m.bedded/alternative meaning n.serts > 2 mezangelle is 2 n.courage: + ev[post-po-m]o.lutionary and active structural/net.wurked realitees + sliding from irc/icq/moo-like word n-fuzions in2 denser, phonetically N hypertextually-lay[feath]er.ed text tracts + further linguistic delving & particip][collabor][atory act.ion][s & electrons & neurons][. + n.nate s][entence][tructural divisions & play loadings . . . . </hyperjump> ..<USE:> .computer/mathematical conventions liberally and subversively [ie n.dicate fracture or mangle points with a dot & translate <for> and <too> in2 the numeric <4> or <2>. .network elements in your poetic discourse such as emoticons <;)> and abbreviations <r u there?> etc . open source distribution and construction . the reader as an inform][ed][ation node point . polysemy/parataxis/neologisms . proactive/re][di][dactive states of correspondence ..<AIM:> . 4 contributors 2 n.teract via various communication modes that n.courage curiosity and radical meaning absorption ...<LEARN:> .2 love the square bracket, humor, & confusion. Use the square bracket <or a triptych> 2 indicate a meaning-mode-hyperjump, whether that b via the implication of a gender discrepancy; indicating an additional sense state/loading, or just playing around with letters <lettah[!]s> .2 condense letters into their phonetic counterparts - <in> or <and> becomes <N>, <are> becomes <r>, <u> = <you> or <ewe>. Use these liberally within words; <express> becomes <x.press>, <issues> becomes <s.sues>, etc . 2 switch/n.courage double/triple meanings through common associations and phrases; <manifest> becomes <[wo]manifest>; <other> becomes <ot.her[e N there]>. . . [.stop.] . . . .[end] .. .. .. 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