TWITTER.LIT
As suspected, Twitter has been seized and alt.appropriated by new sub-underground post-literati.
Jason Gusmann from Fictional Mixtape has blog-jumped and is now serialising his latest novel "Richie" exclusively via his phone.
Twitter's reductive format naturally lends itself to Nano-Zen Haiku-like poem-strings and spooky compacted post-lit pronouncements. I'm gonna suggest to the rest of the Discharge posse that we create a clustered Twitterfeed stream sucking in content from the main site and peppering it w/ in-the-field audio-snatches, spoken-word shout-outs and found-photography n vid-cips.
The Future is ours!
posted by I am not Kek-w @ 5:34 PM
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I do not understand this. I don't think I'd be able to follow a story this way.
Understanding stuff is very over-rated lol.
(I remember how darnright weird TV once looked, back in the 60s. All those fast b&w images and people shouting thru a tinny-sounding little speaker on the side of the box. Our first TV had a screen not much bigger than a net-book, but was in a cabinet that was 3-4 ft high.)
This stuff would require us to grow new brain-nodes, evolve new methods of comprehension, to read in fast, fragmented bursts thru time...info that is dumped into the brain and then digested/assembled into some sort of subjective meaning at a later point. (we do this all the time, actually)
I reckon you'd write something really good using this sort of methodology, Brad, tho you might not think so.
What Twitter needs is some way of boxing-in/ring-fencing-off related tweets into clusters that form a narrative arc beyond its standard ping-ponging "x has replied to y" structure; tho that could be exploited too. You could use it to build up a 'play' with the different characters (or their dialogue) located in different twit.accounts.
I have enough trouble following a monthly comic. I forget everything.
It could work though if an author was twittering through a character rather than posting their novel sentence by sentence. Sort of like a twitter journal.
"I forget everything"
Me too: for I am old.
I like the idea of a narrative where the reader is constantly forgetting previous instalments, like some onwards-rolling erosive neural disease that leaves him perpetualyy adrift in a sea of miscomprehension lol.
"...if an author was twittering through a character rather than posting their novel sentence by sentence. Sort of like a twitter journal." - I very much like that idea too.
I'm sure some people do something similar by pretending to be celebrities. I'm following Christopher Walken, for instance, and he may or may not be the genuine article. I think someone else is Darth Vader. But yeah, it may be more interesting if the character doesn't already exist whether they are a real person or make believe.
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