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The infinite tragedy

Questions & Concepts :

  • Look at classical definitions of tragegy
  • Center things around structure
  • What is the frame of reference (i.e. within electronic literature? online publications, etc.)
  • About mourning and memory
  • How is suffering represented through narrative
  • What role does amnesia have in tragedies
  • How can human suffering fully realised when disembodied
  • How are communal and private tragedies constructed online?
  • Narrativization of tragedies (you make things work - tragedies becoming narratives)
  • Who controls the drama
  • Who benefits from digital tragedy and why
  • Structuralism?


References :

  • Judith Butler : Precarious life - The Power of Mourning and Violence
  • Susan Sontag : Regarding the Torture of Others
  • Susan Sontag : On the pain of Others
  • Friedrich Nietzsche : The Birth of Tragedy
  • Janet Murray : Hamlet On The Holodec