Why not be able to search a place for its stories, its poetry, and its metaphors and why not be able to select what you desire as well as be able to create such things specifically for this place itself?
http://www.neme.org/main/1111/writing-within-the-map Publication has historically been a distribution system of printing press, audience and release of finished works. This has led to many variant developments in the past that have attempted to move this system into new paradigms,tributaries, or complete erasures into new modes. It is important to avoid the rise, rise young lions notion of how the new must topple the old and the construct that one must progress through radical means to solve the older functionalities. It is not this; it is that, as new possibilities emerge that can enhance and newer tools come into being that allow deeper levels; it is logical to explore them and to open those new tributaries. The book is not dead, nor should it be. The library does not need to be shuttered as a relic, a museum piece or traces in aging photographs. The internet too, as shiny as it may seem in comparison in these times, will someday be seen as a veritable steam ship in relation to what will come in some future present. To read a place is no longer about placing a singular narrative upon it, triggered from a map, nor is this notion of reading only to have a singular, unalterable experience or interpretation. To publish has long been a general association of taking a work and finding a print or web space for it to be presented as more than just a work in progress. This has also long been problematic as well as a gross oversimplification. To publish is also self publication and distribution in communities or like minded groups without the hard read of publication or rejection. Well, arent cities the same? Arent all places to be interpreted as such? Doesnt this give rise to a need for a more malleable , variant, multi-tiered sense of presentation of texts and narratives? _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
