This workshop will explore the literary and political challenges posed by the digital age to the genre of the novel. In her essay “Digital Modernism. Making It New in New Media” (2014), Jessica Pressman defines “modernism” as “a strategy of innovation that employs the media of its time to reform and refashion older literary practices in ways that produce new art.” (4) What she calls “Digital Modernism” transposes this logic to current practices and issues: “Digital Modernism […] allows us to reconsider how and why media is (and always has been) a central aspect of experimental literature and the strategy of making it new.” (5) Our workshop aims to link these formal considerations with more directly political issues.

The admission is free, no registration required.