Re: Call for submissions: 1st Bachelors Prize for Net-Literature

<is calling
for entries in a
productive net-literature competition. In accordance
with the nature of
the venture, participation is restricted to men.>

this is appalling - semi literate drivel used to
'justify' nasty and reactionary practice.

What next - whites only competitions?
michael

— Johannes Auer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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