Situating Scandinavian Poetry in the Computational Network Environment

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How can we understand poetry in today's digital landscape, where it navigates both digital and analog platforms and often collaborates with technology? This exploration of Scandinavian poetry within the computational network environment examines how diverse poetic forms interact with digital media, shaping new and remediated poetic expressions. It highlights the self-reflexivity of digital poetry, illuminating the impact of digital media technology on poetry, literature, and aesthetics. The book advocates for the significance of close reading poetry in digital contexts and combines historical and theoretical perspectives on poetry in the digital realm with analyses of Scandinavian poetic works. Grounded in posthumanism and N. Katherine Hayles' concept of "technogenesis," it posits that contemporary poetry is both shaped by and shapes a computational network involving human and non-human entities, where poems circulate in an egalitarian media ecology. This work is essential for researchers and students in poetry, literary studies, media studies, and digital culture, as well as educators seeking to introduce students to innovative poetic forms.