Dossier
Experimental literature
Expanded books, printed hypertexts, transmedia narratives, new literary artifacts… The hybridisation and blending of genres and formats is unstoppable. Joining the experimental tradition typical of the literature of the 20th century are explorations and disruptions with an uncertain destiny, but that at the same time call into question traditional formats and ways of narrating.
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Move a Text, Break Up the House
Imma Ávalos
Subjectivity is now the election and combinatory capacity of the commissioner or the installation's artist in an expression “of second hand"
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Drawn Nonfiction: an Overview
Jorge Carrión
Reflection is a linguistic and an imagined process, we talk about illustrated essays, cartoon journalism, visual journalism, sketching, and visual thinking
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The essay will be experimental or it will not be
Jorge Carrión
Even though literature must necessarily be an experiment, here we are again, questioning its laboratory nature.
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Conceptual Writings: An Overview
Jorge Carrión
We map out an overview of experimental writing today, focusing particularly on conceptualism and processes of appropriation and expropriation in America.
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Provisional Language
Kenneth Goldsmith
Globalisation and digitalisation turns all language into provisional language.
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Post-novels and other monsters
Jorge Carrión
We can understand the prefix ‘post’ in a temporal way: by thinking of each era as a period that sees itself as subsequent to the previous one.