Bravo, Alan! I just bought your book and looking forward to read it...also am in brooklyn for 2 days. Shall we meet tomorrow, Thursday, end of the day? Shall we?... Bzzzzzz Suzon
>Message: 6 >Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:47:48 -0500 (EST) >From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> >Subject: [NetBehaviour] My book WRITING UNDER available! Information > below - >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > >Alan Sondheim pens WRITING UNDER: SELECTIONS FROM THE "INTERNET TEXT" > >(Please consider buying this - support the press and my work; it has >a great introduction by Sandy Baldwin!) > >http://www.alansondheim.org/Sondheim.jpg > >CONTACT: Abby Freeland, Marketing Manager at West Virginia University >Press, 304 293 8400 x 6, [email protected] > >Alan Sondheim pens Writing Under: Selection from "The Internet Text" > >MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The Center for Literary Computing and West Virginia >University Press are pleased to announce the publication of _Writing >Under: Selections From the Internet Text_ by Alan Sondheim. This >extraordinary collection of work 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. > >John Cayley of Brown University proclaims Alan Sondheim to be "the poet, >the artist, the maker who has most profoundly immersed himself and his >work in the life-changing code formsof networked computation that have >the world and its 'genesis redux' in their grip." Christopher T. >Funkhouser of New Jersey Institute of Technology affirms that "anyone >interested in knowing more about (or from) a writer who has practiced and >thrived on the Internet since its very beginnings needs to read this >book." (See below for more.) > >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. > >_Writing Under_ is published by the Center for Literary Computing, West >Virginia University. To order this title or to learn more about this book >visit http://wvupressonline.com/sondheim_writing_under_9781935978732#4 >or phone (800) 621-2736. > >Writing Under: Selections From the Internet Text by Alan Sondheim >December 2012/216pp >ePub 978-1-935978-74-9/$19.99 >PB 978-1-935978-73-2/$19.99 > >"Alan Sondheim is one of the precious few who joyfully-and in abject >misery-risks these terrors of writing for us, for our pleasure and our >undoing. What happens? Language disposes of us. As if that were not all >that is required of any writer, Alan Sondheim is also the poet, the >artist, the maker who has most profoundly immersed himself and his work in >the life-changing code-forms of networked computation that have the world >and its 'genesis redux' in their grip." > >- John Cayley, Literary Arts, Brown University > >"Sondheim crafts an often meandering + always introspective recording of >his prodigious on-line output. Birthed [and often remixed] in digital >formats and drenched in anxiousness + desire, his staggeringly open text >gives rise to possibilities of endless interpretation and comprehension, >leaving multiple re-reads a definite must." > >- Mez Breeze, Australian-based writer and practitioner of net.art > >"Encountering Alan Sondheim's work we become aware how versatile a writer >he is. The vast fore-lands of his Internet Text contains an estimated >25,000 pages of wryting involving - as Sandy Baldwin observes in his >introduction "a phenomenology thick with human perception and intentions >that are bodily, personal, political, and communal." In wryting, Sondheim >produces all sorts of texts - poetry, prose, and the unnameable >compositions existing amidst conditions of material transformations that >merge (with) the physical and technological. Writing Under offers up >generous statements of process, from a self- and other- aware master who >is codework's godcyborg, a limner of psychedelic landscapes in Second >Life, and an inveterate graphophile. This volume radiates foresight, >stabilizing, if only for a moment, the fragility of "tenuously tethered >bits and bytes" that exist in a vast field. For Sondheim, the creative is >critical and vice versa; there's much telling in _Writing Under,_ >projecting insight into the machinery of his oeuvre. Anyone interested in >knowing more about (or from) a writer who has practiced and thrived on the >Internet since its very beginnings needs to read this book." > >- Christopher T. Funkhouser, Program Director, Communication and Media, >New Jersey Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
