Poesía en la época del contenido generado por el consumidor

Abstract

This essay takes stock of Conceptual Writing some two decades after it came to prominence. Recognizing that the first phase of Conceptual Writing emerged with new relevance in the context of the World Wide Web’s database-driven cultures of surveillance, finance, and personal communication, the essay asks how conceptual practices signify against the new technical structures and cultural semantics of the internet in the age of social media, where internet experience tends to be more algorithmic, interoperable, ephemeral, mobile, affective, and narcissistic. Following the work of Paul Stephens on the strategies of passive indexing in contemporary literature, this essay focuses on three areas in which technological, economic, and literary trends overlap: affect, junkspace, and platform. In the process, it offers close readings of works by Robert Fitterman, Diana Hamilton, Sophia Le Fraga, Tan Lin, Holly Melgard, Danny Snelson, and Joey Yearous-Algozin.