Text, If we believe that what the web has to offer us --and literature --is the potential for an increased agency or interactivity (see also amateur cover versions of everything on YouTube; see also fan fiction; et cetera.).
Text, Did I mention that this is one reason why art, why language, why narrative, why poetry isn't going anywhere? We love it. We love to be involved. We love to play with text --that is, if it can be made fun enough for us.
The eBay home page. Text, eBay Buyer Protection. Covers your Purchase Price plus Original Shipping. It's Free and always included with your purchase.
The X-Tube home page. Pornographic images with 3D characters. Text, Free Monster Porn.
Graffiti on a wall reads, Go, its fun.
Two baby dolls as the thumbnail of a video on a web page.
Text, What I'm proposing is that we consider these commercial spaces as venues for publication and distribution and audience-gettin' and ampersand, and apostrophe-usin'. And that these spaces might be interrogated and provide material and constraint for our language.
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