Ambient Literature

Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices

Tom Abba, Jonathan Dovey, Kate Pullinger, Tom Abba, Jonathan Dovey, Kate Pullinger

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9783030414559
• eBook ISBN:
  9783030414566
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Historiography
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encounters constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at the heart of an embodied and mediated experience. The visual, sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements of a live and emergent mise-en-scène. Specific techniques of narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user reads a textual and sonic literary space. These experiences are temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the everyday shared world. The book explores the potentiality of a new literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware cultural objects, writers and readers. This book, and the work it explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and reading practices.

Index

0–9

34 North 118 West (Hight et al.);6

3D sound

5G networks

A

Abba, Tom

absent reader

absorption

Acconci

Activity Theory

actor-network theory

aesthetic experience

balance and unity

The Cartographer’s Confession

Dewey’s aesthetic experience

environment, energy, emotions

overview

participation

structure

African-American reading

agency

AI (artificial intelligence)

air travel

Alexander, Thomas M.

algorithms

ambient attention

anticipatory immersion

problem of the unreadable text

subjectivity and anticipation

Allen, Woody

alternate reality gaming

Always Something Somewhere Else (Speakman)

Alys, Francis

Amazon

ambience

attention

critical ambience

definitions

immersion

music

Pullinger interview

Ambient Commons (McCullough)

ambient intelligence

ambient literature

aesthetic experience

ambience and immersion

ambient poetics

attention

Breathe

attending to ambience

hermeneutics

literature, distraction, immersion

messiness and ubiquity

moralizing

overview

presence and non-presence

context

ambient contexts

in background

as everything

overview

problem of

question of

critical ambience

definitions

everyday mixed realities

immersive algorithms

anticipatory immersion

research challenges

research method

research overview

subjectivity and anticipation

unreadable text

locative media

overview

project overview

situated readings

See alsowriting ambient literature

Ambient Literature Research Project

context

critical ambience

literature

project overview

Pullinger interview

reflexive technology

Speakman interview

website

Ambient Media (Roquet)

ambient music

ambient poetics

ambient rhetoric

Ambient Rhetoric (Rickert)

ambiguity

analytic induction

Anderson, Sarah

animals

Antenna Theatre

Anthropocene

anticipatory immersion

APIs (application programming interfaces)

Breathe

locative media

Apple

apps

AR (augmented reality)

architecture

Aristotle

art

Art as Experience (Dewey)

artificial intelligence (AI)

art installations

artist’s books

Arts & Hu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Ready Reader One: Recovering Reading as an Ambient Practice
• What We Talk About When We Talk About (Ambient Literature) Context
• Objects, Places, and Entanglements
• It Must Have Been Dark by Then: An Artist Interview with Duncan Speakman
• Developing Ambient Attention
• Critical Ambience
• The Politics of Ambient Literature
• The Cartographer’s Confession: An Artist Interview with James Attlee
• Where I’m Coming from: Studying the Novelty of Immersive Algorithms
• An Aesthetics of Ambient Literature; Experience, Narrative, Design
• Breathe: An Artist Interview with Kate Pullinger
• Writing Ambient Literature
• Back Matter