Re: [-empyre-] discrete packets

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

I think they're all the same (Sheldrake) - what do you make of him?

Thanks, Alan

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, chris caines wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> 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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