introduction - steven craig hickman

Andrew talking about the literature of exclusion:

"Of the literature of exclusion examined so far, only Siratori's glitch poetics would technically be electronic literature. The other works conform more to the definition of the literature of exclusion: works that confront the existential and ontological instance when meaning can no longer be grasped as a result of the authorship of cultural narratives shifting increasingly further away from human storytelling to the algorithmic functionalities of the apparatus."

Wenaus, Andrew C.. Literature of Exclusion: Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature

I think that's where we're at in the digital arts. It's now a collective enterprise, open and bound to the modalities of the whole planetary platform of open-source images. The idea of copyright is old school and is now going to be excluded in favor of a collective open world of creativity. It may be a battle for many decades to come but it will come, a new economy will supervene and change across the board. All these old school critics of capitalism are still bound to dead notions for a dead world. We live in the posthuman era beyond the staid humanistic individual and its sense of identity and ownership. Obviously here in the States people won't buy into such notions as of yet, but it won't matter they will because their children will be born into that world. Technology is changing the way capitalism works without politics even being a part of it. Politics is dead. Most of the world goes on without acknowledging the local political and social environments in which it operates. Capitalism just masks itself and goes about its business doing what must be done to continue in its own direction with technology. Capitalism is and never has been against technology, only ever conforming to the needs of its negotiations. As Andrew puts it: "The literature of exclusion is a print tradition grieving, revolting, or confused at the confrontation with the ontological implications that digitality and apparatus imply. "What they imply is nothing less than the end of the print tradition as a whole , and commodity and consumption era that supported it. Oh, consumption want go away it will become digital and a never-ending supply chain of automated digitality in every field will open up in an endless realm of readymade art, literature, etc. will be there for a mass digital consumer. In many ways the global internet has become a digital Disneyland of fakes, a world where everything is become artificial and artificializing us in process. We were always just images of images, now we will become ready-mades for and endless public digifest diet. In a black mirror world, the human has been excluded. We are all just bits and bytes in continuous parade of give and take negotiations. The flesh and blood body are not here, only the virtual avatar counts as our double and ally living in a virtual world of illusive and illusionary images. Baudrillard came just as all this was being born but had already brought the cynical gaze to its birth. Philosophers did away with foundations and essences in the past century and left us with this abyss of electronic mayhem. James Joyce conceived it on Anna-Livia-Plurabella, goddess of muck and mud bequeathing to us an etymsmashed world of punstership insanity.
What Joyce wanted was to leave behind the nightmare of history... we're doing it now. A transitional era in which the partnership between human and machine intelligence is being born is now. The cat is out of the bag, there is no way back now. We are the first generation of a new era. Let's do this.

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HYPER-ANNOTATION #001
from glitch writing to posthuman porno

contributors: wayne mason, alan sondheim, d.m. mitchell, ellie chou, made in dna, francisco borges, giselle bolotin, bec lambert, n.casio poe, sophia yung, tom bland, dan mcneil, kirill azernny, hallidonto, hister grant, tod foley, cæla Ⓥ, david roden, zak ferguson, andrew c. wenaus, kristine snodgrass, akua, miyazaki tatsuya, charles thomas carter, david kuhnlein, julio aliseda, alvin tung, pharmakustik, timothy burns, matt burns, shaun lawton
cover artwork: akua
publisher: kenji siratori

ISBN: 978-1-387-30578-0
Release date: 2023.02