Literaturhaus Stuttgart: Call for submissions
1st Bachelors' Prize for Net-Literature
What characterizes net-literature? The fact that is has to do with
computers linked to the net, and that it can't simply be transferred
one-to-one onto paper, of course. And so "net" is the most significant,
primary element of the compound.
So far, what has not been at the center of focus is the actual writing
apparatus, the computer itself, the universal machine, and if one is to
believe Dieter Daniels, a bachelors' machine. Marcel Duchamp, inventor
of the "Machine Celibataire" defined it in the succinct and cogent
phrase "short-circuit on desire".
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Submissions to be made via the competition website
http://www.junggesellenpreis.de
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The 1st Bachelors' Prize for Net-Literature is aimed at making the
sterile bachelors' machine fertile and is calling for entries in a
productive net-literature competition. In accordance with the nature of
the venture, participation is restricted to men.
Issues to be examined and possibly revised are:
- the cliche of the hacker, without any contact to the opposite sex and
hence in permanent "bachelor mode" (Daniels), sitting at his computer
night after night, trying to penetrate strange systems.
- the topos of the computer-obsessed man who has been dreaming
ceaselessly of the machine as the perfect lover ever since E.T.A.
Hoffmann's tale "The Sandman".
- the discriminatory claim that there is a male passion for frickeling
around instead of producing art.
Interested women and Haecksen are advised to inform themselves of the
relevant prizes sponsoring women and of scholarships for net-literature
(Willemer Prize, "Die Hoege" etc.).
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Submissions to be made via the competition website
http://www.junggesellenpreis.de
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The 1st Bachelor's Prize for Net-Literature will be awarded in the
Literaturhaus Stuttgart during the festival Code
Call for submissions: 1st Bachelors'\_Prize\_ for\_Net-Literature
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Type: discussion