I decided to migrate my blog La condición to this space hoping to streamline my work. Things should be easier this way; all my stuff in one place. I won’t delete the older site for a while, but I will not be updating anything there ever again. If you want to learn about what I … Fin de La condición || Bye bye La condición
Electronic Literature: A Critical Making and Writing Course Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual! I am looking for a graduate student interested in working with me in the teaching and research involved … GSR Position (Spring 2016): E-Lit
Time flies when you are… working. Although I’ve been enjoying some free time, this summer I have mostly been working. Here is a little update on what I’ve been doing, and what’s to come.I had the opportunity to attend DHSI again this year, and took part in a terrific electronic literature class, Advanced Criticism and … What I’ve been up to this summer (and what’s to come)
Fall semesters are tough.However, there are things one can do to make them a bit more enjoyable. Like teaching things one really loves, such as the short story “Mutaciones” by Spanish writer, Agustín Fernández Mallo, included in the now sadly disappeared El hacedor (de Borges), Remake. “Mutaciones” is a three part story based on Borges’ … Passaic, Google, and Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Bird’s-Eye View
Una de las cosas curiosas de impartir un par de asignaturas diferentes en un mismo semestre es que los materiales para ambas, generalmente inconexos, se mezclan inevitablemente en la mente de la instructora. Si además, una es investigadora –o meramente lectora—y necesita seguir añadiendo a la mezcla, el conjunto aumenta y se transforma en una … Amores imposibles
I’ve been walking by the same light blue house for the past year and a half. When it went for sale about three months ago, I stopped to read the sign next to it: three bedrooms, two bathrooms, back yard. It was also Philip K. Dick’s childhood house. Fancy that. There was a big tree … New Maps of Hell
Mientras espero a que se conecten mis padres a Skype, me he puesto a pensar en las lecturas para el seminario de mañana y en cómo enfocar la influencia del blog en la expresión literaria hoy en día. Lo primero que me viene a la cabeza es la blogsívela de Cristina Rivera Garza, … Update needed
“Technology always empowers someone. It empowers those who possess it, those who make use of it, and those who have access to it. From the very beginnings of hypertext … its advocates have stressed that it grants new power to people. Writers on hypertext almost always continue to associate it with individual freedom and empowerment” … Red Freedom and Cut up Hypertext Fingers
–> A finales de los años 80, el científico norteamericano Donald Knuth concibió una serie de ecuaciones numéricas para definir la curvatura de las letras tipográficas electrónicas. Según su resolución mate-mática [E]l ordenador era capaz de generar puntos gráficos que determinarían la estructura física de la letra. Lo que hizo Knuh, según David J. Bolter, … Poesía (postpoética) de Knuth
Una foto que sacaste cuando vivías en el imperio de Los Ángeles y fuiste a The Last Bookstore. Como eras medio hipster, te compraste Only Revolutions que, por cierto, no te gustó mucho. Claro que después de House of Leaves todo te iba a saber a poco Jordi Carrión, uno de esos escritores que secreta … Sobre premios, viajes, librerías, una paleta y Jordi Carrión