TY - JOUR

T1 - Infrastrukturalisme og redaktionel praksis

T2 - Om litteraturens liv efter redaktørens død

AU - Daugaard, Solveig

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Infrastructuralism and Editorial Practice.The Life of Literature after the Death ofthe EditorThis article discusses the editorial practices of literary journalsand other publishing platforms, and the new shapes they takein the altered media ecologies of contemporary literaturein Scandinavia. Inspired by American media theorist JohnDurham Peter’s call for a new academic paradigm, “infrastructuralism”, focused on the mundane, underlying structuresthat make our societies work without calling attention to themselves, it examines how the dissolving of collective informationinfrastructures and traditional literary institutions affect editorialwork, and how new editorial practices can draw attention toand affect functional literary infrastructures and even establishnew ones. From a conceptual discussion of the implicationsof the “editorial” and its relation to “the curatiorial”, a recentbuzzword, and a recuperation of a well-known critique ofthe editor as a historical patriarchal figure, it establishes aninfrastructural angle upon recent changes in the Danish literaryscene, specifically the crisis of the (printed) literary journal, andthe recent rise in micropublishing ventures defining themselvesin direct opposition to the professional publishing industry. Ina questioning of the social imbalance implied in the familiaravant-garde argument that seeks out the future of progressiveliterary practices in explicitly underground or “experimental”practices, especially in times when the large, collectiveinfrastructures designed to disseminate diverse cultural productsto a broader audience are disintegrating, it finally discusses thecontemporary Instagram phenomenon Rupi Kaur, who mergespoetry, minority identity and pop culture in a poetic practicethat speaks to millions of followers worldwide, as a differentexample of the future of literature after the reign of the editorhas ended. In conclusion, it suggests that a critical mergingof the experiences from micropublishing with those of socialmedia macropublishing is needed in order to understand andrestore the value of conscientious editorial work to the futureinfrastructures of literature.

AB - Infrastructuralism and Editorial Practice.The Life of Literature after the Death ofthe EditorThis article discusses the editorial practices of literary journalsand other publishing platforms, and the new shapes they takein the altered media ecologies of contemporary literaturein Scandinavia. Inspired by American media theorist JohnDurham Peter’s call for a new academic paradigm, “infrastructuralism”, focused on the mundane, underlying structuresthat make our societies work without calling attention to themselves, it examines how the dissolving of collective informationinfrastructures and traditional literary institutions affect editorialwork, and how new editorial practices can draw attention toand affect functional literary infrastructures and even establishnew ones. From a conceptual discussion of the implicationsof the “editorial” and its relation to “the curatiorial”, a recentbuzzword, and a recuperation of a well-known critique ofthe editor as a historical patriarchal figure, it establishes aninfrastructural angle upon recent changes in the Danish literaryscene, specifically the crisis of the (printed) literary journal, andthe recent rise in micropublishing ventures defining themselvesin direct opposition to the professional publishing industry. Ina questioning of the social imbalance implied in the familiaravant-garde argument that seeks out the future of progressiveliterary practices in explicitly underground or “experimental”practices, especially in times when the large, collectiveinfrastructures designed to disseminate diverse cultural productsto a broader audience are disintegrating, it finally discusses thecontemporary Instagram phenomenon Rupi Kaur, who mergespoetry, minority identity and pop culture in a poetic practicethat speaks to millions of followers worldwide, as a differentexample of the future of literature after the reign of the editorhas ended. In conclusion, it suggests that a critical mergingof the experiences from micropublishing with those of socialmedia macropublishing is needed in order to understand andrestore the value of conscientious editorial work to the futureinfrastructures of literature.

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

VL - 48

SP - 21

EP - 36

JO - Tidskrift foer Litteraturvetenskap

JF - Tidskrift foer Litteraturvetenskap

SN - 1104-0556

IS - 4

ER -