Episode 41: Digital Art and Meaning with Roberto Simanowski

In this wide-ranging conversation, host Scott Rettberg sits down with renowned media theorist Roberto Simanowski to map the seismic shifts in digital culture over the last quarter-century. Starting with the early avant-garde experiments in "born-digital" literature and the founding of the journal Dichtung Digital, they trace the evolution of the screen from a space of poetic play to a site of global datafication.

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