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Plastic Words - From Situationism to Sabremetrics: Experiments for the Novel in the Age of Big Data
From Situationism to Sabremetrics: Experiments for the Novel in the Age of Big Data – Helen DeWitt
Thursday 8 January 2015, 6.30pm
Helen DeWitt on her writing practice, with reference to collaboration, works-in-progress, multilingual texts, the concealed dynamics of commodification, the machinery of cultural capital and the pioneering work of Edward Tufte. With a selection from her personal library.
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Helen Dewitt is a Berlin-based writer. She is the author of The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax/Chatto & Windus, 2000), Lightning Rods (New Directions, 2011/And Other Stories, 2012), and, with Ilya Gridneff, of Your Name Here (in limbo since 2006).
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Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.
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By Raven RowFrom Situationism to Sabremetrics: Experiments for the Novel in the Age of Big Data – Helen DeWitt
Thursday 8 January 2015, 6.30pm
Helen DeWitt on her writing practice, with reference to collaboration, works-in-progress, multilingual texts, the concealed dynamics of commodification, the machinery of cultural capital and the pioneering work of Edward Tufte. With a selection from her personal library.
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Helen Dewitt is a Berlin-based writer. She is the author of The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax/Chatto & Windus, 2000), Lightning Rods (New Directions, 2011/And Other Stories, 2012), and, with Ilya Gridneff, of Your Name Here (in limbo since 2006).
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Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.