Hi all, I read Jeff’s post Some Things Are Better Left Alone and I can share in a lot of frustration. For me the e-lit we “studied” was more frustrating aesthetically, but I can share in your epistemological pain a lot as well. Not only form is inferior to what we expect on average from anything called “literature”, themes and discourses were lacking to engage or entertain.
WHY SO SAD????? WHY? I have not found any e-lit object that I could consume without chewing through painful existential dilemmas.
Nevermore! Please indulge with me watching my hero, Ze Frank on TED. Ze Frank’s nerdcore comedy is e-literature done right, I say.
There you can also find Rives on 4 a.m.. Hilarious and witty. I never do this, but I just can’t resist… LOL!
I really hope it helps to wash the taste of e-lit of your… whatever receptors you used there, OK?
I think this article somewhat expresses the frustrations we are having. Given its name, “e-lit”, we attempt to tie to it what we understand in the traditional sense as literature. However, I think the name can be deceiving. Although, it does have problems beyond this. The author in the article says: “Meade himself confides that he is yet to be ‘seized by a digital fiction that is utterly compelling’”. He ends by asking if e-lit is already dead.
Here is the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/ebooks