Displaced metaphors: poetic engagements with language in a digitised world Todd, Ruby, McKnight, Lucinda and Bullock, Owen 2017, Displaced metaphors: poetic engagements with language in a digitised world, TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Displaced metaphors: poetic engagements with language in a digitised world Author(s) Todd, Ruby McKnight, Lucinda orcid.org/0000-0003-0997-6790 Bullock, Owen Journal name TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses Volume number 21 Issue number 1 Start page 1 End page 1 Total pages 1 Publisher Australasian Association of Writing Programs Place of publication Nathan, Qld. Publication date 2017-04-30 ISSN 1327-9556 Keyword(s) Metaphor writing ricoeur baudrillard digital technology Summary This practice-led paper discusses an ongoing creative and conceptual collaboration between three authors, in which poetry is approached as a means of exploring how lived experience and language are being transformed by the rapid evolution of digital devices and technologies. We reflect on our use of poetry to explore and interrupt the increasing invisibility of metaphors such as ‘cloud’ and ‘screen’ as applied to technology, by re-foregrounding the disjunctions between metaphor and what it describes. Engaging with the work of Ricouer and Blanchot, we consider the unique operations of literary language and the ability of poetry to invite critical encounter in ways that foreground physical sensation and the free association of signifiers. We explore how such poetic engagements offer an important means of approaching questions concerning the implications of digitisation, via language and lived experience on what we perceive as the “real.” In this context, we consider Baudrillard’s dystopic postulations regarding simulacra and hyperreality, and Susan Stewart’s perception of digital modes of communication as inducing a nostalgic longing for the immediacy of pre-digital reality. As this paper will discuss, such possibilities, at once dystopic and mournful, are at once complicated and offset by the generative potential of creative engagements with digitisation, which have exciting possibilities for creative practice. Language eng Field of Research 190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting) 1904 Performing Arts And Creative Writing HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©[2017, Australasian Association of Writing Programs] Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30089943 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (open access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 05 Dec 2016, 13:02:00 EST Tue, 06 Dec 2016, 04:01:17 EST Tue, 06 Dec 2016, 10:21:51 EST Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 12:57:33 EST Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 13:00:35 EST Sat, 19 Aug 2017, 06:02:49 EST Mon, 21 Aug 2017, 14:35:58 EST Mon, 21 Aug 2017, 14:37:52 EST Mon, 21 Aug 2017, 14:39:46 EST Tue, 29 May 2018, 12:01:57 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 263 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 13:00:35 EST

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