Contents

Preface

Approaches and Terminologies

Playing With Signs. Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Net Literature

Holopoetry, Biopoetry and Digital Literature. Close Reading and Terminological Debates

Human Practice. How the Problem of Ergodicity Demands a Reactivation of Anthropological Perspectives in Game Studies

The Problem of Form. Transitoire Observable, a Laboratory for Emergent Programmed Art

Typologies, Histories, and Case Studies

The Ludoliterary Circle. Analysis and Typology of Digital Games

Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed. A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present

Humor — Technology — Gender. Digital Language Art and Diabolic Poetics (2004)

Playable Literature

Six Problems in Search of a Solution. The Challenge of Cybertext Theory and Ludology to Literary Theory

Playable Media and Textual Instruments

Stories and Games

Narrative and the Split Condition of Digital Textuality

Event-Sequences, Plots and Narration in Computer Games

Writing and Programming

Principles and Processes of Generative Literature. Questions to Literature

Code, Cod, Ode. Poetic Language & Programming or Pequeño Lector/Klein Leser: Es gibt (See)lachsfi let?

Practical Examples

E-Learning and Literary Studies. Towards a New Culture of Teaching?

i’m dying, honey. dramatized proceedings from super-space (2004)

Another ABC. A Model for “Augmented Business Communication”

Contributors