Former Editorial
| The Death and Re-birth of Form | 25th October 2009 |
| I’m still wedded to the physical book; a self contained package of content which when joined with your imagination can take you anywhere. I’m wondering about the many challenges to this medium; not so much replacement objects - the eBook, for instance – but writer / reader challenges. Why write and where to write. What to read and how to read. Slowly we’re falling away from the whole into fragments. From the novel, to the chapter, through the paragraph and into the sentence. Bits and pieces, snippets, snaps, like tags of text. In the abbrev of email or the 4-ltr-gist of txt. In the instant of messenger. The B of the Blog. The write wall of face-space-books. The confinement of the tweet. Jotting text down. Scribling text on. Note to text. Filtering text. Text edit. | |
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Challenges to the writer, the reader, and the medium. Challenges to form.
Marking perhaps the death of form. Without fixed format, without fixed media, with universal medium, you no longer need the constraints of form.
Writing, freed from hang-ups or hold-backs. Words, tumble out and find their way to readers by myriad means. By contrast, I’m wedded to the freedom of information; the ability to exolore and find, pick and choose, to cut and paste, creating something new from multiple strands of the already existing. Perhaps this is all about creative destruction, you always build upon the old, and that implies changes to the familiar but opens up fresh possibilities. |
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