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100 1 $aJordan, Rieke,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWork in progress :$bcuratorial labor in twenty-first-century American fiction /$cRieke Jordan.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axx, 196 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThinking media
520 $a"Work in Progress: Curatorial Labor in Twenty-First Century American Fiction interrogates contemporary texts that showcase forms of reading practices that feel anachronistic and laborious in times of instantaneity and short buffering times. Objects of analysis include the graphic narrative Building Stories by Chris Ware, the music album Song Reader by the indie rock artist Beck Hansen, and the computer game Kentucky Route Zero by the programming team Cardboard Computer. These texts stage their fragmentary nature and alleged 'unfinishedness' as a quintessential part of both their narrative and material modus operandi. These works in and of progress feel both contemporary and retro in the 21st century. They draw upon and work against our expectations of interactive art in the digital age, incorporating and likewise rejecting digital forms and practices. This underlines the material and narrative flexibilities of the objects, for no outcome or reading experience is the same or can be replicated. It becomes apparent that the texts presuppose a reader who invests her spare time in figuring these texts out, diagnosing a contorted work-leisure dichotomy: 'working these stories out' is a significant part of the reading experience for the reader-curatorial labor. This conjures up a reader, who, as the author argues, is turned into a curator and creative entity of and in these texts, for she implements and reassembles the options made available"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aRevision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2016, titled Work in progress : curation and creativity in 21st century American fiction.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface : when the internet dropped its capital i -- Work in progress, curatorial labor -- A tale of two buildings : Chris Ware's Building stories -- The broken record : Beck Hansen's Song reader -- Kentucky Route Zero's netherworld of slowness -- Coda : what's the matter, media?.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aReader-response criticism.
650 7 $aAmerican fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00807048
650 7 $aReader-response criticism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01090552
648 7 $a2000-2099$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aJordan, Rieke, author.$tWork in progress$dNew York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019$z9781501347733$w(DLC) 2019016981
830 0 $aThinking media (Bloomsbury (Firm))
852 00 $bglx$hPS380$i.J67 2019