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“…what does it mean for a cybertext to be experienced via a mobile device? Traditional forms…”

“…what does it mean for a cybertext to be experienced via a mobile device? Traditional forms specify the syntagm because the possibilities of the real world are unquantifiable. Text-messaging, however, blurs the boundaries between a hermetic narrative space and the unpredictable logics of the real world. A cybertext on a mobile device is neither specifying a syntagm nor a complete paradigm. Instead, it elicits the specific creativity of the human consciousness interacting with its environment, temporarily organizing how reality, whatever its subjective nature, whatever preexisting simulacra exist, might be experienced.”

Knifeandfork – Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling

TXT of The Living Dead

How it works:
I took the original movie (public domain) and broke it out into 500 frames to visually tell the original…