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A Poetics of EditingAnti-Editing and the Digital Romantics

A Poetics of Editing: Anti-Editing and the Digital Romantics [Discussions about digital media can take an evangelical tone, associated with futurological figures of thought. Greenberg characterises this as a hybrid romanticism specific to digital culture which both reflects and creates new forms of alienation, expressed in genres that call for partisanship and strong emotions. In such an environment, editing occupies a strangely central, though negative, position. The chapter considers four characteristic pairings that figure in the hybrid culture: elitism vs democracy; finished vs unfinished; authentic vs fake; and open vs closed. Greenberg makes a new diagnosis of alienated subjectivity and underlines a further shift of textual authority, from secular expert to that of the romanticised self.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Poetics of EditingAnti-Editing and the Digital Romantics

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-92245-4
Pages
199 –224
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_8
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Abstract

[Discussions about digital media can take an evangelical tone, associated with futurological figures of thought. Greenberg characterises this as a hybrid romanticism specific to digital culture which both reflects and creates new forms of alienation, expressed in genres that call for partisanship and strong emotions. In such an environment, editing occupies a strangely central, though negative, position. The chapter considers four characteristic pairings that figure in the hybrid culture: elitism vs democracy; finished vs unfinished; authentic vs fake; and open vs closed. Greenberg makes a new diagnosis of alienated subjectivity and underlines a further shift of textual authority, from secular expert to that of the romanticised self.]

Published: Sep 4, 2018

Keywords: Digital Romantics; Hybrid Romanticism; Digital Culture; Textual Authority; Interesting Speech

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