Systemic-historical notes on the precursors of Brazilian digital poetry: Eduardo Kac

Abstract

This article proposes a journey through works of Brazilian digital poetry that were produced before the popularization of the commercial internet in Brazil; therefore, works that were produced with digital technological resources, but whose circulation did not occur through the internet. The aim of this journey is to reflect on this pioneering production and the ways in which it was inserted into the literary system, which is justified because its forms of production, its inscriptional materialities, its modes of circulation and legitimation are different from those that characterize printed literature. The proposed approach is based on Itamar Even-Zohar's theoretical proposal – used here as a methodological key – in his reflections on polysystems of culture and the literary polysystem. The result of the proposed discussion is a methodology for the critical reading of digital poetry, in a systemic key.