“A galaxy of signifiers”: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein as a Paradigm of the Barthesian Writerly/Plural Text
“A galaxy of signifiers”: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein as a Paradigm of the Barthesian Writerly/Plural Text
Author(s): Wojciech DrągSubject(s): Media studies, Music, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: electronic literature; digital biography; writerly text; hybridity; experimental life-writing; David Clark; 88 Constellations;
Summary/Abstract: This article argues that David Clark’s digital biography 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) (2008) meets all the criteria of a writerly/plural text as defined by Roland Barthes in S/Z (1970). The discussion focuses on the interactive and reversible structure of Clark’s work, as well as on the plurality and hybridity of its components. The experimental form of Wittgenstein’s biography is examined as an attempt to capture the elusiveness and the contradictions of its subject.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 44/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 113-122
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
