Inter-City-Text
Internet project, Discussion, Symposium
Dates
23.–26.10.1997
Details
23.10.1997
17:30: Eröffnung
18:00: Vorträge und Lesungen
25.10.1997
18:00: Internet-Literatur
19:30: Vorträge und Lesungen
26.10.1997
11:00: Schlussdiskussion
Location
Marieninstitut, Kirchengasse 1
Graz
Inter-City-Text is based on the contemporary experience of the city and aims to identify the influence of modern-day urban living conditions on current literary forms, seeing international trends towards decentralization and globalization in connection with developments in the realm of new media. Intertextual literary methods, crime story structures, interdisciplinary border-crossings in literature towards the world of film, music, essay or visual art and the networked, decentralized presentation of text on the Internet can be interpreted as the effects of the modern city experience. The rank expansion of cities towards the periphery, the trend towards a blurring of contrasts between the city and the country, the center and the periphery, presence and absence and thus between the subject and the object, is on the other hand leading to a dehierarchized (multi)culture of small centers, districts and suburbs in which the feeling of self and the concept of the subject are being restored on an easily comprehensible scale. Graffiti, punk and underground literature are an expression of a feeling of being alive that, being restricted to a limited social and spatial city ghetto, is revolting against increasing depersonalization.
Participants: Bogdan Bogdanovic, Jerome Charyn, Petra Coronato, Gundi Feyrer, Arno Geiger, Stewart Home, Heiko Idensen, Rada Ivekovic, Miljenko Jergovic, Ralf B. Korte, Martin Krusche, Jakov Lind, Tobias Meißner, Rainer Münz, Ulrich Peltzer, Lesego Rampolokeng, Franz Schuh, Sarah Schulman, Norbert Siegl, Uwe C. Steiner, Jáchim Topol
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