THE PURPOSE OF ART

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Hi LISA:

Thanks for your good questions!

And thanks for your flow approach…!

If you will click on my Blog, you will have the most recent entry to the work. 

Everything is going to be posted as “Excerpts” from The Twenty Third Century Novel in my blog.  In other words, this site and my blog are ALL “the novel.”

It is a long story…..:)

You can start anywhere and read in any direction.  If you want to focus on a particular 'book' within the novel, you can do that through the tagging codes.

(I am still working on these, but they will provide a way of organizing the various works within the larger work if you like a particular theme or environment.)

For example, you can put in “23CN-VR” and that should pull up all the entries so far from a book titled:

“VR: The Journals of S”

Some of the books I will be posting excerpts from are:

MINIMATA:POWERS OF 10
THE WORLD'S FIRST NANOTECHNOLOGY NOVEL
THE KING AND QUEEN OF ROLLER DISCO

AND SO ON…

(Actually, the entry titled “Flying” early on is from KING AND QUEEN)

This is an adventure in using digital technology to serve imaginary works to create new ways of looking at ourselves and our tools for a playful creative experience that expands opportunities and potentials exponentially.

Kurzweil says that his “singularity” will result in humans being 30,000 times more creative as we work more closely with machine intelligence.

I am asking: With all these new breakthroughs in science and technology, what are our traditional forms, like the novel, going to look like in the Twenty Third Century?  I am looking at changes going on right now and projecting them forward.

We will have traditional material, yes, but it will be presented in radically new ways, and I believe ways which will be more sharing, interwoven, interactive, communal, playful and ultimately more exciting.  Again, there will be commentaries on all this in the ongoing text.

So, when you ask about a “goal,” and about “context” this is not really a work of art where there is either.

The best analogies are perhaps in non-linear systems theory, quantum physics, strange attractors, Heisenberg, Bell's Theorum, and the Diamond Sutra.

The point (rather than the goal) is to create something without specific beginning or end, but with FLOW.  Sort of like life.  This is different from Proust, or Tolstoy or Dickens.  This is more like Silly Putty.  Or, you might say, correctly, Borges on steroids, or Cortazar on a sugar high.

Each Reader will put The Twenty Third Century Novel together through his/her own memories, perceptions, mind set, world view, and so the work will actually “happen” in the space ….

between these words and your heart…..

Does this help?  Thanks for your interest and thanks for asking…

I will now post this as a Comment, and add it to the novel as a kind of hypertext exegesis (is that the term?)…

The Designer
:)