The English Department, Maynooth University is hosting The Internet is Written with Oisín Fagan and Ian Maleney on Thu, 28 October 2021 from 19:00 – 19:30.
The Internet is Written
Oisín Fagan and Ian Maleney discuss the history and philosophies of the early internet, and how they relate to our current forms of communication. Does the universal domination of the internet in all aspects of our lives constitute the final victory of the written word, or does it hearken towards its unravelling? What are the language games that allow the internet to work as a shared space of writing, and what are its implications for the power of metaphor, semantics, abstraction, and narrative.
Meet the Speakers:
Ian Maleney is a writer based in Dublin. His first book, a collection of essays entitled Minor Monuments, was published in 2019 by Tramp Press and shortlisted for the Michel Deon Prize and Butler Literary Award. He received the Arts Council Next Generation Bursary for Literature in 2019. He is the online editor of the Stinging Fly, and founding editor of Fallow Media. His work has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, The Wire, and the New Statesman.
Oisín Fagan is the current writer-in-residence at NUIM. His collection of stories, Hostages, was published in 2016 by New Island Press, and in 2018 by Head of Zeus. His novel, Nobber, was published in 2019 by JM Originals. It was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Butler Literary Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and named as one of the books of the year by The Guardian and The Daily Mail. He is one of the current writers-in-residence at the Department of English, NUIM.
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