No. 110 10.4.93-10.7.93 or Polish Uncreative Writing

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_6

Keywords:

uncreative writing, conceptual writing, digital literature, Kenneth Goldsmith, appropriation

Abstract

This article provides an overview of Polish digital literature, using the tools and vocabulary of uncreative writing put forward by American artist and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith. The analysis covers appropriation techniques, plagiarism types, and the thinkership of conceptual writing practices. The selected works use various media and explore diverse textual materialities, which depend on specific platforms, such as the MERA 300 minicomputer, the Wikipedia platform, or JavaScript. The pieces are described in terms of database studies in contemporary digital literature.

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Author Biography

Piotr Marecki, Jagiellonian University of Cracow

Piotr Marecki - Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, lecturer at the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź. He holds a PhD in cultural studies from The Jagiellonian University. Since 1999 he is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of "Ha!art" magazine, website newspaper and the Publishing House and charmain of the board at Korporacja Ha!art Foundation. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, digital literature, and cultural margins. In 2013/2014 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT in Cambridge, MA. He is affiliated with the Electronic Literature Organization.

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Published

2016-07-11

How to Cite

Marecki, Piotr. 2016. “No. 110 10.4.93-10.7.93 or Polish Uncreative Writing”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 4 (2):119-37. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_6.

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016): Digital Literary Studies 2

Section

Secção Temática | Thematic Section

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