[spectre] writing within the map published at neme

[hight at 34n118w.net]

Why not be able to search a place for its stories, its poetry, and its
metaphors and why not be able to select what you desire as well as be able
to create such things specifically for this place itself?

http://www.neme.org/main/1111/writing-within-the-map

Publication has historically been a distribution system of printing press,
audience and release of finished works. This has led to many variant
developments in the past that have attempted to move this system into new
paradigms,tributaries, or complete erasures into new modes. It is
important to avoid the “rise, rise young lions” notion of how the new must
topple the old and the construct that one must progress through radical
means to “solve” the older functionalities. It is not this; it is that, as
new possibilities emerge that can enhance and newer tools come into being
that allow deeper levels; it is logical to explore them and to open those
new tributaries. The book is not dead, nor should it be. The library does
not need to be shuttered as a relic, a museum piece or traces in aging
photographs. The internet too, as shiny as it may seem in comparison in
these times, will someday be seen as a veritable steam ship in relation to
what will come in some future present.

To “read” a place is no longer about placing a singular narrative upon it,
triggered from a map, nor is this notion of “reading” only to have a
singular, unalterable experience or interpretation. To “publish” has long
been a general association of taking a work and finding a print or web
space for it to be presented as more than just a work in progress. This
has also long been problematic as well as a gross oversimplification. To
“publish” is also self publication and distribution in communities or like
minded groups without the hard read of publication or rejection. Well,
aren’t cities the same? Aren’t all places to be interpreted as such?
Doesn’t this give rise to a need for a more malleable , variant,
multi-tiered sense of presentation of texts and narratives?