Clinamen

Right after putting up something thoughts about Infinite Jest and infrastructures¹, I got to thinking about whether Infinite Jest is a "new media object."²

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1. Brown, James. "Infinite Summer: Infrastructures and/of Uncertainty." 27 Jul 2009, 10:55am CST, Clinamen, http://locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/jbrown/node/281

2. In The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich theorizes "new media objects."^a For Manovich, such objects can be pieces of art, web pages, video games, or numerous other technological objects. Manovich's project in TLoNM is to theorize the design principles of such objects - the emerging language that we are using to build new media objects. One portion of Manovich's discussion seems to be applicable when it comes to Infinite Jest:

My good friend Doug Freeman at the Austin Chronicle has posted what I think is a dead on assessment of how print journalism (in this case, music journalism) is missing the boat:

"The continued waning of print publications’ resources and influence is undoubtedly due to the rise of the Internet, in much the same way the CD-based music business has been felled by online capabilities. This loss of influence is not due to the rise of blogs, however, but rather the inability of print publications to largely adjust to the Web, to transform either their content, style, or influence to a new medium, much to detriment of [music] criticism itself."