War, Electronic Literature, Testimony, Textamony: Presentation for the 2023 Unconference 1/18/2023 https://youtu.be/XgzpC4Um6Oo full video Created for the Unconference, this video considers the relationship between what we do and what occurs in war, in terror, in flight, in ordinary life. I made it on almost no sleep, a poor excuse, but so it was. There are errors in it, probably absurdities; even so, I'm attempting to think through what for me has been a constant haunting. In a sense, it's not personal; it's the same old story. I want to differentiate between testimony - what one witnesses, what one has been told, what one has lived through - and textamony - the recreation of events in fiction, in poesis (including my own), in trying to come to grips with what _happened._ All of this can be effaced in false testimony or written as truth in textamony, where AI (artificial intelligence) may play a part. How do we think, in other words, the unthinkable? What if the unthinkable is transformed into a fiction where the dead are held accountable for their own demise? I want to thank everyone at the Unconference for the opportunity to think through this work, which will be presented in part at the event. http://www.alansondheim.org/Uncon.rtf text materials https://youtu.be/XgzpC4Um6Oo full video __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] War, Electronic Literature, Testimony, Textamony:Presentation for the 2023 Unconference 1/18/2023
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:00:55 -0800