The Return of the New: Avant-garde and Digital Poetry

Abstract

With the emergence of the Internet and, even before, with the development of the first technological poetics, the question about the avant-garde extends beyond its echoes in traditional analog narrative, forcing us to read the avant-garde not so much in its experimental textual dimension with relation to a specific genre (the contemporary novel), but in its connection with technology, in the operation of erasing borders with the other arts, in the search for movement, in collective writing as a way of undermining the idea of ​​genius individual, in its exploration of chance and in its imposition of new forms of production and consumption of works. Throughout the following pages we will take a tour of the ways in which some works arising from the collectives Aceleraditxs and Broken English recover searches linked to the historical avant-garde and concrete poetry. Thus, if on the one hand digital culture, due to its own characteristics, broadens and facilitates avant-garde procedures, on the other, many particularities of what we call Latin American digital poetry would have been unthinkable without the legacy of the paper experimentations of the avant-garde. and of concretism.