Monday, September 17, 2007

Dreamaphage

Jason Nelson's Dreamaphage impressed me with it's ambiguity. It is a hypertext that, at the same time depends on mechanical (old fashioned) way of scrolling through text, and on the other side, consists of, computer enabled hypertext in digital environment. It is this kind of amalgam that, in my view, clearly represents the position of literature today. Literature cannot (and should not) exclude the Other, whether it is the electronic that excludes the traditional print, or the other way around.
Furthermore, I believe that the angrybovinedisease clearly points to the premise that everything is interconnected, the premise that was explored throughout the science-fiction movement (most notably in cyberpunk), and the other various representations in popular culture. Professor Katarina Peovic Vukovic noted that this is a kind of literature that is not easily read. I must agree. Not only that the pictures and sounds often serve as a distraction, but the flickering signifier is frequently "random", causing the burst of unexpected motion on our display.

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