Spring 8 weeknotes (figuratively) shredded by supervisor.

Basic points:

- My comments on the remediation of fact & fiction imply that it is something new, where fiction has always been a product of its world. Important not to get snared by the “technology changed everything!” rhetoric.

- Instead, treat fiction as any other medium. Remediation of the boundaries between media, where one is the novel. BOUNDARIES. Boundaries between things. Boundaries of things.

- Remediation isn’t an answer, but a question. Bolter & Grusin’s book is old (2000) and flawed, but it’s the best we’ve got.

- So, look at continuity and change. HOW … TO WHAT EXTENT … is contemporary fiction caught up in processes of remediation?

- In which case, cyberpunk is only one strand of what’s going on. Think DeLillo, Pynchon, Calvino. Science fiction and cyberpunk may be on the front lines, due to their pre-existing textual engagement with technology, but that isn’t to say that they are all there is.

- What is at stake in the remediation of books and computers? How is the field changing in relation to computing and new media technologies?

- This is a mapping exercise. An exploration of a field of enquiry — the answers will be description / explanation as much as analysis.

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My brain hurts. On the plus side, this all sounds remarkably similar to bookfuturism, so at least I’m not working in a total vacuum.