The Erasing Impulse: Constellations of Practices

This slide presentation is an extract of the talk "The Art of Deleting: On Poetry and Erasure" at the UCLA Information Studies Colloquium, on December 3, 2020: https://youtu.be/ZiOMRsCGGOs

Here, I filter a dataset of 400 creative works that employ erasure techniques and propose three different types of constellations of practices: 

• Constellation Blackout
• Constellation Covering
• Constellation Redaction

This file is a complementary resource to the book chapter: "The Erasing Impulse: Veiling and Unveiling the Poetic and the Political." In Global Perspectives on Digital Literature, edited by Torsa Ghosal. New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2022).