posted by rob 3 on January 03, 19100 at 13:24:22:
what is the new narrative?
"Although Hamlet is not the first character to reveal his thoughts on stage or to utter a soliloguy, his particular expression of meditative self-consciousness is both original and universal. It represents a truth about human experience that could not be told before."- from Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck In her book Murray is talking about how new media can be expected to produce new narrative structures in the same way books and film, as new technologies, affected (effected?:) cultural production. She tried (1997) to anticipate what the new narrative might look like by examining what we had so far at that time: avatars, MUDs, games, simulations. It didn't get her too far but far enough to give me a sense of virtigo. Its on my mind -- the new media -- as you know Jack, facing yet again a shift in work strategy (as if it were a strategy and not a reaction). Notwithstanding Murray's essentialism (the notion that art always represents a truth about human experience as opposed to behaviours in cultural parentheses), isn't there a struggle in Embryogenesis to wrest some new truth out of the interface between science and art? And doesn't that mirror, though in a slightly different medium (the web being after all, involved, though not too self-consciously) the struggle going on in new media: looking for something in the technology, frustrated by familiar narrative structures, yet bending the rules and structures too, however slightly...? I find myself searching backwards, as we are taught, to your root directory: ~fatemaps (access forbidden): searching for what? arithmetic formulae? as if, if I could only find the equation, I could be certain then of the truthfulness of the product and proceed untroubled, without contradictions, breathing easily at last.
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