Digital literatures: some possible definitions for thinking about the domain of cybernetic textualities

Abstract

In this paper, we inquire into possible definitions for digital literatures in the broader context of technopoetics (Kozak, 2022). To this end, we recover Espen Aarseth's notion of text as machine (1997) and reflect on the modes of being of this type of literatures in the domain of cybernetic textualities. Based on the analysis of nopos3as1miedo (2020) by Matías Buonfrate and Códigos (2015) by Milton Läufer, we wonder about the tools and contexts of this type of productions when it comes to linking with the immense amounts of circulating linguistic materials that characterize the digital universe. We also question the political potency of these practices in a context of cybernetic production of signs.

Keywords

• literatura
• cultura digital
• cibernética