As I was going through the book by Hayles, all I kept thinking about was, I wish she would\u00a0simplify\u00a0her ideas and thoughts. I had to reread the passages over and over to understand the content and the what she was trying to get across to her audience. When I was going through the book in reference to the digital poem Bust Down the Door, she talked about how when going over these texts, that people\u00a0perceive\u00a0that the eyes are moving along to read the text but that is not case, the text moves while the eyes remain in place. I found that the reader here has\u00a0absolutely\u00a0no control of the speed the narration is moving and is left helpless. It seems that there is a struggle for supremacy between the speed of the narration and the different sizes of the text. The readers eyes are distracted by both.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In her book Hayles discusses that the idea of text that moves while the reader’s eye remains stationary was thought of by Bill Brown in the 1920s. What I thought was amazing was that he got his idea from cinema, “Brown imagined that reading could be brought to speed, so to speak, by displaying it as a linear stream of words flashing by, much as a highway unfolds at night through the\u00a0windshield\u00a0while one is driving fast” (Hayles, 125). I think that this is true for Bust Down the Door, because it creates a continuous series of approach that enables the user to become entangled with the analysis of the text, and give it meaning. This contributes to the formation of a\u00a0suspenseful\u00a0and intriguing relationship between the text, the computer and the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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