Talan memmott biography of christopher
This dissertation explores computational and media-based signify- ing strategies in electronic literature from the point of view of read-.!
Talan Memmott
“Dislocution/Translocation/Electracy: The Pro[blem|mise](s) of Electronic Writing” (paper)
Digital media and information technologies are changing the way we read, write, and communicate.
This is not only important to creative practice but also has a profound affect upon the ways in which we construct identity.
A former San Francisco skateboarder, Memmott has no undergraduate degree.
If weobserve the underlying technologies that allow for communications through the network we can recognize almost immediately that the conditions of being online are conditions of writing. Through a sort of trasnmissive agency that passes through a thick variety of protocols and codebases the message is transmitted and received, deposited into and retrieved from the elsewhere of cyberspace.
This is true not only of superficially text-based communications such as email, mailing lists, MOOs, etc. but also in the most heavily mediated forms of technology-based communication and expression. In essence, it is not enti