Expanding the concept of writing: Notes on Net art, digital narrative and viral ethics

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Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-13

  Amerika, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 70449975576     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002409404772827987     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. Mark Amerika, The Kafka Chronicles (Normal, IL: FC2 Press, 1993)
2. Sexual Blood (Normal, IL: FC2 Press, 1995)
3. Degenerative Prose: Writing beyond Category (Normal, IL: FC2 Press, 1995)
4. and In Memoriam to Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop (San Diego, CA: San Diego State Univ. Press, 1996)
5. GRAMMATRON is my first major work of Net art and consists of over 1,000 screens, thousands of hypertext links, over 40 minutes of an original streaming audio soundtrack, a mailing list and a companion theory-guide called "Hypertextual Consciousness." It was one of the first works selected for the Whitney Biennial 2000 in the Internet Art category and is available at
6. Gregory Ulmer, Heuretics: The Logic of Invention (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994)
7. Steven Shaviro, "GRAMMATRON," Artbyte (April-May 1998) p. 25
8. See Mark Amerika, "Surf-Sample-Manipulate: Pla(y) giarism on the Net," Telepolis
9. I am referring here to the practice of using the forms of the mass media against themselves by defamiliarizing them for anti-aesthetic effect. For more on this, see my essays at Telepolis, especially "Writing as Hactivism: An Intervening Satire,"
10. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, available at
11. See Huhtamo [12]
12. Darren Tofts, Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyber-culture (North Ryde, Australia: 21C, 1997) p. 38
13. Vilém Flusser, Toward a Philosophy of Photography (London: Reaktion Books, 2000) p. 31