Opera aperta : Italian electronic literature from the 1960s to the present

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Patti, Emanuela, author

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"In 1962, Umberto Eco published Opera aperta, setting the ground for a new wave of creative experimentation across the arts and media. The concept of 'open work', arguably informed by systems theor...

"In 1962, Umberto Eco published Opera aperta, setting the ground for a new wave of creative experimentation across the arts and media. The concept of 'open work', arguably informed by systems theory, cybernetics, relativism, pragmatism, and other influential disciplines of the time, was used by Eco to reconsider the work of art as a site for interactivity, collaboration, and intermediality. In this perspective, this book reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking at creative practices across literature, electronic and digital media from the early days of computers to the social media age. It examines how Italian writers, poets, literary critics and intellectuals have responded to each phase of the digital revolution, by enacting 'poetics of openness' and 'politics of intermediality'. Case studies include Nanni Balestrini, Gianni Toti, Italo Calvino, Caterina Davinio, Wu Ming, Michela Murgia, Francesco Pecoraro, Roberto Saviano, Tommaso Pincio, Fabio Viola, Fabrizio Venerandi, Enrico Colombini. In some cases, literary experimentation with new technologies has taken a clear polemical stance towards mass media, globalisation, information society and late capitalism, in order to challenge and/or reconfigure artistic or social ontologies. In others, digital technologies have been used to enhance and extend the affordances and 'languages' of literature"--

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