Literature and Art:
The literary work, the written word feeds the visualization process
The Sound and The Fury, by William Faulkner and Deleuze’s concepts of Monads and Rhizomes.
This book poses some interesting reverberations with the concepts that concern Deleuze. The manner of writing [stream of consciousness] was innovative and ground-breaking when Faulkner wrote this book in 1928, but it is still as problematic and challenging to the reader today as it was then.
Deleuze always maintained that his book Mille Plateaus, could be read in any order, and did not require the reader to ‘begin at the beginning, stop when he reached the end and leave the middle for in-between’ as Lewis Carol might say.
The reader, indeed was encouraged to dip into the book, hopping from one chapter to another in no particular order. The ideas unfolded and echoed within the chapters. References appeared and filled out information available in other sections of the book. It is a book to be read and referred to at different times during the constructing process.
Faulkner also structures time in this seemingly disordered way. The book is divided into four sections and the first one is written by Benjy who is a congenital idiot. The time sequence in this section is not linear, but skips and hops from one incident which occurs earlier in time to other incidents in different times without the benefit of explanation or labelling. This makes it very difficult for the reader to follow the narrative and make some order or sense from it. This mixing up of time and place continues throughout the book and the only textual indication is the use of italics. Often Faulkner does not employ punctuation in a traditional manner which adds to the ‘challenge’ of reading.
Why does this interact with digital developments? Although video presentations occur in a linear manner [unless an element of interactivity is present], the construction does not necessarily proceed according to Cartesian principles. The Time Line in a Video Editing program can be constructed in a rhizomatic fashion, layering footage and stills; reversing, stretching, twisting and turning them and, in general, superimposing a non-linear logic to the sequencing of the elements.
The Sound and The Fury, by William Faulkner and Deleuze’s concepts of Monads and Rhizomes.
This book poses some interesting reverberations with the concepts that concern Deleuze. The manner of writing [stream of consciousness] was innovative and ground-breaking when Faulkner wrote this book in 1928, but it is still as problematic and challenging to the reader today as it was then.
Deleuze always maintained that his book Mille Plateaus, could be read in any order, and did not require the reader to ‘begin at the beginning, stop when he reached the end and leave the middle for in-between’ as Lewis Carol might say.
The reader, indeed was encouraged to dip into the book, hopping from one chapter to another in no particular order. The ideas unfolded and echoed within the chapters. References appeared and filled out information available in other sections of the book. It is a book to be read and referred to at different times during the constructing process.
Faulkner also structures time in this seemingly disordered way. The book is divided into four sections and the first one is written by Benjy who is a congenital idiot. The time sequence in this section is not linear, but skips and hops from one incident which occurs earlier in time to other incidents in different times without the benefit of explanation or labelling. This makes it very difficult for the reader to follow the narrative and make some order or sense from it. This mixing up of time and place continues throughout the book and the only textual indication is the use of italics. Often Faulkner does not employ punctuation in a traditional manner which adds to the ‘challenge’ of reading.
Why does this interact with digital developments? Although video presentations occur in a linear manner [unless an element of interactivity is present], the construction does not necessarily proceed according to Cartesian principles. The Time Line in a Video Editing program can be constructed in a rhizomatic fashion, layering footage and stills; reversing, stretching, twisting and turning them and, in general, superimposing a non-linear logic to the sequencing of the elements.
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