TOPICS: DIGITAL POETICS in Spring 2020 (CL2091B)

How do words change when we use them on and offline? What happens to writing and reading when we move between physical books and digital environments? What are the relationships between Literature and the Internet? How do ‘traditional’ or ‘canonical’ literary works dialogue with social media, computer games and Google-generated poetry? This course will give students an introduction to, and practical experience of, a variety of ways of thinking about the written word in the context of developing technologies and digital practices, and literary responses to them. During the course we will respond to, think hard about, and experiment with apps, chatbots, algorithms and artificial intelligence with the aim of discovering how words, narratives, poems, writers and readers behave in different and evolving contexts.