Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices 3030414558, 9783030414559

Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Everyday Mixed Realities
The Ambient Literature Project
Situated Readings
Are We not Locative?
Ambience and Immersion
The Book
References
Ready Reader One: Recovering Reading as an Ambient Practice
References
What We Talk About When We Talk About (Ambient Literature) Context
The Cartographer’s Context
Context Stinks(!)
Computers and Context
Living in the Background
The Problem of Context
Context Is Everything
Ambient Contexts
References
Objects, Places, and Entanglements
Entanglements
Reading Objects
Reading Breathe
Reading Palimpsests
Reading Place
Conclusion
Bibliography
It Must Have Been Dark by Then: An Artist Interview with Duncan Speakman
Developing Ambient Attention
Reading the Subject of Attention
The Experience of Attention
The Moralizing of Attention
Both Present and Not
Literature, Distraction, and Immersion
Attending to Ambience
Hermeneutics of Ambient Attention
Kate Pullinger’s Breathe
Messiness and Ubiquity
References
Critical Ambience
Introduction
The Desire to Be Enveloped
Critical Practices
Ambience
Praxis
Conclusion
References
The Politics of Ambient Literature
Foundations of Digital Power: Being Literary and Being Smart
Voices of Wildness
Reading Bodies
Conclusion
Bibliography
The Cartographer’s Confession: An Artist Interview with James Attlee
Where I’m Coming from: Studying the Novelty of Immersive Algorithms
The Problem of the Unreadable Text
There Is a Way Out!
The Specificity of Our Method
What They Saw
The Occurrence of the Thing
Immersive Algorithms
Readers Leaning In
Subjectivity and Anticipation
Conclusion
References
An Aesthetics of Ambient Literature; Experience, Narrative, Design
Dewey’s Aesthetic Experience
The Event of Aesthetic Experience; Environment, Energy, Emotions
Ambient Literature, a Case Study: The Cartographer’s Confession (2017)
Conclusion
References
Breathe: An Artist Interview with Kate Pullinger
Writing Ambient Literature
Ambient Poetics
Embodied Reading
Movement
Performance
Textual Space
Unpredictability
Temporality
Reflexive Technology
References
Index