Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 1 The second project is called “InstaVers,” and it is an Instagram-inspired initiative which aims to present and popularize contemporary poetic texts on the internet through social media. The project was started by Dóri Kele on April 11, 2014, the Day of Poetry in Hungary, and…
2015, Innovations in the digital field
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 1
by Laszlo Szabolcs •
Poetry doesn’t sell too well nowadays. Perhaps it never did, really. Nonetheless, in the last two hundred years it was a highly popular cultural phenomenon, both for the elite and increasingly for the masses. Financially successful or not, poets and their often-cited, repeatedly hand-copied poems were known throughout the land, with iconic portraits of the…
2015, Innovations in the digital field
Digital Horizons I. – Print vs. Online Literary Journals
by Laszlo Szabolcs •
http://www.literaturhauseuropa.eu/wp-admin/post.php?post=3894&action=edit Presently, this complex web of texts, people, and relations we call Hungarian literature ranges from the pantheon of reclusive, almost mythical off-the-grid figures of a golden generation, to the online gallery showcasing the colorful and innovative digital identities of the various literary newcomers. As a peculiar case of the “simultaneity of the non-simultaneous,” we…
2015, Innovations in the digital field
The paradox of digital transformation – the Hungarian case
by Laszlo Szabolcs •
A recent visitor to Budapest, the novelist Jonathan Franzen, believes that we are living in a “media-saturated, technology-crazed, apocalypse-haunted historical moment” which constantly gives one the feeling that the Krausian last days of humanity are near. Apocalypse notwithstanding, the American author—known for gluing off his laptop’s modem port so as not to let himself be…