Poetic Acts & New Media

By Tom O'Connor

Poetic Acts & New Media advances the fields of literary and new media studies by clarifying boundaries between competing genres and media through the creation of a new artistic genre, "media poetry." This aesthetic mode of expression/becoming seeks to transform mass culture (our codes of communication) by self-consciously acknowledging how textual, audio, and/or visual signs are constructed according to their simulation and not their representation.

This study draws heavily upon literary media theories that intersect with Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of 'Sense' as a simulated power of sensory transformations. Media poetry becomes a complex power of 'Sense' by blending conventional mass-media codes with poetic simulations that provide alternative forms of creating meaning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761836306
• ISBN13: 9780761836308
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.0"