Writing Under: Selections from the Internet Text: 02 (Computing Literature)

Alan Sondheim (author)

ISBN 10: 193597873X / ISBN 13: 9781935978732

Published by West Virginia University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Under: Selections from the Internet Text: 02 (Computing Literature)
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193597873X
• ISBN 13: 9781935978732
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Alan Sondheim’s Writing Under explores and examines what happens to writing as it takes place on and through the networked computer. Sondheim began experimenting with artistic and philosophical writing using computers in the early 1970s. Since 1994, he has explored the possibilities of writing on the Internet, whether using blogs, web pages, e–mails, virtual worlds, or other tools. The sum total of Sondheim’s writing online is entitled “The Internet Text.”  Writing Under selects from this work to provide insight into how writing takes place today and into the unique practices of a writer. The selections range from philosophical musings, to technical explorations of writing practice, to poetic meditations on the writer online. This work expands our understanding of writing today and charts a path for writing’s future.

About the Author

Alan Sondheim is a Brooklyn-based new media artist, musician, writer, and performer. He is concerned with issues of virtuality, and the stake that the real world has in the virtual.