[-empyre-] discrete packets

["chris caines" <chris@madeupstuff.com>]

Alan


>I wonder if there's a relationship between the sites chosen and
Barthes'
>punctum, that condition within a photograph that holds one? I'm also
>thinking of a book by Robert Sheldrake - saw it in a used bookstore -
on
>how people know someone's staring at them -

>In other words, something characterized the sites perhaps, and then you
>wrote within that?

Yes there is something going on with the choice of the sites, though I'm
not quite sure how to articulate it. I'd love to think its something as
exotic as Rupert Sheldrakes' morphic resonance idea. Is that what the
staring book is about? I'm only familiar with the one about how your dog
knows you are on your way home.

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Hi Carlos

>well, I think "go this way" a kind of literature that we can name
>ciberliterature. It's a sort of walking hypertext, but it's more too,
no?
>Stories writed in a collaborative way, with use of new characteristics
that
>exceed traditional thinking about characters, plot of the novel, use of
>images on movement, real places etc.

Its still pretty non collaborative at the moment as I've written it all.
Using an online literary form that's reads as collaborative I think of
it as being a little like a mockumentary. Or perhaps even older 19th
century fictions that use science reports & letters as fictional
devices. I think of it as being in that writing tradition. What do you
think?
I haven't seen many other people using web conventions for fictional
purposes, my favourite is probably Nick Crowe's "discrete packets" an
amazing re-creation of a fathers circa 1995 personal homepage complete
with tacky midi file and wallpaper that reveals a story of his missing
daughter.
http://www.nickcrowe.net/



Chris



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