Just as a precursor, I don’t really know where I’m going with this… <\/p>\n
When perusing the Pax and Hejirascope I found myself torn between feeling the need to realize the “genius” of this new form of “text” or “literature” and wanting to click on the x in the top right hand corner. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy them…I found them interesting, I just couldn’t enjoy them for the “literature” they provided. Like some other people have posted, I enjoyed Pax more, but that was because of the flying naked (and extremely anatomically correct) figures on the screen. I found it hard to turn my eyes away from the people to read the text. I wasn’t sure which character it was until I looked closely and if I chose to look at the people then I missed what each character said as he\/she said it and then I didn’t know if I wanted to click on him\/her again. In the end I just watched the people for the full ten minutes and then read the text at the end. Sure, the text could be viewed as “poetic” (and some of it really was) but it could also just be random. Monkeys typing on a typewriter will eventually<\/em> type Shakespeare. Eventually I might come up with something of value. Ok, it’s not that random since in the introduction Moulthrop mentions that there are certain techniques to try as you “read” (click on just one person, click on a few and rotate their thoughts, click on people at random). I do agree with Sigfrid and others, though, that Pax had a timeline to its journey and there might be what some consider a plot with the darkening of the screen and the changing facial features of the different characters.<\/p>\n Pax also reminded me of one of those Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em> books (someone might have already posted about this). There are a specific number of outcomes which are most likely eventually finite, but each person reading gets to create his\/her own text while reading and there are many difference outcomes from which to choose. But don’t mistake that you are choosing them, not creating<\/em> them, because they are already created or simulated beforehand. <\/p>\n I did note, however, that the impermanence and subjectivity of these texts related to my reading of Baudriallard. The literature of Pax and Hejirascope is never actually written down and there is no order to them. So when you play the game you are duplicating an “original” that has no original, that never actually existed. The images of the people are representative of the “real” but I think they also hide the fact that there is nothing really<\/em> there. Someone else noted that the people have names and look “alive,” but they don’t really have a back story and are not having those thoughts.<\/p>\n And I’m actually going to stop talking about Baudriallard now because, while I believe I understood many aspects of this article, I was left confused about others…especially the part about Watergate. Anyone want to fill me in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just as a precursor, I don’t really know where I’m going with this… When perusing the Pax and Hejirascope I found myself torn between feeling the need to realize the “genius” of this new form of “text” or “literature” and wanting to click on the x in the top right hand corner. It’s not that … Continue reading Just as a precursor…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}