Deep Dives are forays into one of the naturally ongoing arenas of investigation and inquiry within the New World Lit Lab. They can be undertaken by one individual, by groups, or through collaborations within any number of contexts: in given courses or workshops, within a special session of a confab, or even through an immersive performance or a long (long) interview.
DOMAINS
These are some of the most glaring domains in which The New World Lit Lab takes particular interest. Deep Dives do not have to adhere to the mores of analytical language and/or habits of certain rituals of research; rather, we totally–totally!–get and encourage research and investigation that happens WITHIN THE PRAXIS, that is, IN THE WORK ITSELF–whether it be a piece of prose or a performance, a new genre or a radical new form–or indeed, new manifestoes! Any number of these domains can be the subject matter–or the heart of the matter–of the Deep Dive.
> The concept of the AUTHOR: demultiplied and scattered author, and the notion of a decentered authorhood
> The REGIMES OF REPRESENTATION
> The notion of FRAGMENT AND THE TOTALITY
> The THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRANSLATION
> The work through PLATFORMS and the TEXT
> OPEN and CLOSED Texts
> The QUESTIONS OF QUIDDITY: objecthood and non-objecthood
> ORIGINALITY and… Not
> The Poetics and Politics of READING
> The past, present and future of The BOOK
> Interactivity and PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES within literature
> The possibilities of DISTRIBUTION AND DISSEMINATION
> The new ear of COMPUTATIONAL POETICS
> PLURILINGUAL TEXTS
> The SPECTRUM OF POLYLINGUALISM and the literary text
> The nature of the MANIFESTO itself
> New CARTOGRAPHIES of becoming through new ways of writing
> New GENRES and FORMS associated with WRITING and the OTHER
> New MYTHOLOGIES
> New ITINERARIES
> New IDENTITIES
> TEACHING and LITERATURE
> CURATION of LITERATURE
> PUBLISHING and the NEW WAVES
> NWLL and NEW INSTITUTIONS
and…
INTERACTIONS of Literature with other disciplines in their ongoing evolutions (anthropology, sociology etc.) are also always part of the landscape, inevitably…