Dr Spencer Jordan

Postdigital Storytelling

Fanon (Even the Dead Are Not Safe) Eigenface by Trevor Paglen, 2017. Dye Sublimation Print 122 x 122 cm. Source: © Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.

Postdigital Storytelling: Poetics, Praxis, Research (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities) by Dr Spencer Jordan (Routledge, 2019).

“It is not just the topic of the postdigital that frames this book. Jordan also grapples with contemporary and historical notions about creativity and about our human interventions in the world. In that respect, the book is a tour de force exploration, with the postdigital providing the author with a portal through which he delves into the digital past in order to show the potential in our postdigital present. When I finished Postdigital Storytelling Poetics, Praxis, Research I immediately wanted to read it again – not simply to recall it, but to immerse myself in it again. The human-centeredness of this book makes today’s digital ubiquitousness a positive turn away from alienation and toward cognitive and emotional empathy. Fascinating, contextually informed, and based as much in writing practice as it is in the results of that practice, Postdigital Storytelling Poetics, Praxis, Research is a reader’s book (because it fascinates) and a writer’s book (because it encourages and charges the imagination).”

Professor Graeme Harper, Dean of the Honors College, Oakland University; and Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. 

Download a final-proof copy of the introduction here.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction

Part 1: Pasts and Presents: Sheds, Labyrinths and String Figures

2. Creativity Today: the Case for Storytelling
3. Postdigital Storytelling
4. Hypertextual Adventures
5. Postdigital Hypertextuality

Part 2: Into Infinity: Towards a Postdigital Poetics

6. Spatiality and Text: Locative Mobile Storytelling
7. Collaborative Tales

Part 3: Coda

8. How Soon is Now?