Writing in the
age of the web
This is not a book. But it is:
… an old-fashioned hypertext about writing for digital.
… full of notes on digital as an artistic medium.
… not a text that considers digital to be a remediation or dilution of other media.
… a throwback to the days of the early web.
… written by a couple of over-educated opinion-givers. The ‘I’ in this text could refer to either one of us.
… over 40 000 words of observations you can easily ignore.
… woefully incomplete and still in progress.
You can either read the entire thing as a single page or you can browse the individual sections below:
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Introduction. The blindness of mandated prophecy.
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The form of the thing. Devaluing and fetishisation go hand in hand.
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What does the writer want?. And digital myths.
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What do books do?. Discover the boundaries of all things not-book.
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Choose your structural grammar. Digital as a cornucopia of structural choices.
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This is not a disruption. Laying the odds on our many futures.