Digital Space—The New Medium of Life and Life-Writing
摘要
Since the release of the World Wide Web, the digital space has been explored both as the location and as the medium of electronic literature. Impacted by the everyday usage of digital forms of writing, life-writing has expanded beyond the realm of print, incorporating electronic hypertexts. As Paul Arthur states, “technology has a grip on an individual’s identity that can never be released.” While he refers to the overwhelming quantity of data shared on social media that qualifies as minimalistic life-writing, I will examine the relationship between technology and the new digital space in recent life-writing. Working with Riccardo Ridi’s definition of the hypertext (2018) and Marie-Laure Ryan’s interactive narratology (2006), I will demonstrate how hapticity engaged by Serge Bouchardon and Vincent Volckaert in Loss of Grasp (2010, 2019) and Laura Okkema in The Deserters (2018) questions the nature of human relationships in the digital realm, the distinction between embodied subjectivity (Diego Marquez, 2022) and embodied screen, and the digital interaction between readers-users and authors.