Ages and Rhythms of Literary Practices
Ages and Rhythms of Literary Practices

Summary/Abstract: What does the digital age offer for literature and what does it take away from it? On the one hand, we are told that the historical-cultural progress surpassing the Gutenberg project inevitably entails the fall of literature; on the other hand, we are told that media technology offers new possibilities for literary writing and reading we never imagined before. In this paper, I will investigate how these allegations about the impossibility or the possibilities of literature are connected to certain practices of orientation. If we regard cybertext according to Aarseth’s suggestion, as a version of the book-labyrinth or as its computational extension, I envisage in the second part of my paper a comparison between the so-called ergodic practices of reading and writing and the forester extension of the space of literary practices.

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