Hello Zack, and all. The book question is interesting. I don't think we have to
act overly confused by the notion, as bookstores are filled with them, they are
a fact.
but the notion of contemporary writers engaging with time, linearity, and even
conflict, in contemporary culture, are very
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, katherine hayles nk_hay...@yahoo.com wrote:
two books was of entering a different world, a world in which I was in
passionate and deep conversation with the authors. The experience refreshed
me in a way that no Web reading has, notwithstanding the huge
I would be very skeptical of any attempts to define a book in terms of
narrative. There are obvious difficulties such as the fact that many, if not
most, currently extant books aren't narrative, and other kinds of writing
that are clearly not books (short stories, newspaper articles), would seem
As a literary critic, I highly value immersive reading and desire it to
continue. I suspect, however, that the enemy here is not the internet, but
rather the neo-liberal economic rationalism that results in
ever-increasing
work hours, and diminishes the free time required for people to
