Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The novelist’s art of the tweet is brought to book

It’s a long way from inception to completion, unless you’re artist and programmer Cory Arcangel, and your book is made up of other people’s tweets about writing a book

Cory Arcangel, ebooks
'A mournful echo of the futility of writing': Cory Arcangel's Working On My Novel.
The Inception Button should be used sparingly but when called for, it can be highly effective. Located at inception.davepedu.com, it does one thing: plays the sound from Christopher Nolan’s film Inception, which signifies that a new dream – a new level of complexity – has begun. (The sound is, in fact, a massively amplified and condensed note from Edith Piaf’s Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, suggesting that despite what follows, nothing is truly new.)
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