The Psest Manifest-o: A New Form of Literary Art for the New Digital Era
TL;DR: the psest is a new form of creative writing, duets for text, made possible by web3. Find an example of a psest here. ~ I. Author’s note I’ve produced this essay, following years of thinking on the subject of digital-era literature, primarily for two reasons. First, to debut my idea for a new literary form, founded on the mechanics of the web, which I’ve named the ‘psest’. The web’s latest iteration, web3, enables this form to move from the conceptual realm into actuality—a cause for ce...
The Psest Manifest-o: A New Form of Literary Art for the New Digital Era
TL;DR: the psest is a new form of creative writing, duets for text, made possible by web3. Find an example of a psest here. ~ I. Author’s note I’ve produced this essay, following years of thinking on the subject of digital-era literature, primarily for two reasons. First, to debut my idea for a new literary form, founded on the mechanics of the web, which I’ve named the ‘psest’. The web’s latest iteration, web3, enables this form to move from the conceptual realm into actuality—a cause for ce...
Chronology of my first web3 literary work, LET THAT SINK IN
On August 31st 2022, I uploaded a work of art to a form that my employer, Meow Wolf, had circulated to collect examples of its staff’s creativity, for showcasing as part of an artist appreciation initiative. It’s not my general practice to comment on my own work, but the piece, which I conceived in January 2022, needs some context because of – as Harold Macmillan famously said – ‘events’. I will shortly publish the work, which is called LET THAT SINK IN, and which is accompanied by a piece of...
Chronology of my first web3 literary work, LET THAT SINK IN
On August 31st 2022, I uploaded a work of art to a form that my employer, Meow Wolf, had circulated to collect examples of its staff’s creativity, for showcasing as part of an artist appreciation initiative. It’s not my general practice to comment on my own work, but the piece, which I conceived in January 2022, needs some context because of – as Harold Macmillan famously said – ‘events’. I will shortly publish the work, which is called LET THAT SINK IN, and which is accompanied by a piece of...
碗, Symbol for AI-free Writing
To indicate that writing is free from AI-generated text, use the Japanese kanji 碗, meaning ‘porcelain bowl’ or ‘teacup’. I’ve adopted this symbol because it gestures toward artistic endeavour on a human scale: bowls are integral to the art of kintsugi, ‘golden joinery’, which is an apt description of how writing works; and teacups are linked to the wabi-sabi aesthetic, which calls for an appreciation of the beauty found in imperfection. Paste 碗 at the bottom of a piece that contains no input ...
碗, Symbol for AI-free Writing
To indicate that writing is free from AI-generated text, use the Japanese kanji 碗, meaning ‘porcelain bowl’ or ‘teacup’. I’ve adopted this symbol because it gestures toward artistic endeavour on a human scale: bowls are integral to the art of kintsugi, ‘golden joinery’, which is an apt description of how writing works; and teacups are linked to the wabi-sabi aesthetic, which calls for an appreciation of the beauty found in imperfection. Paste 碗 at the bottom of a piece that contains no input ...
