Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World

By Scott Rettberg, 3 February, 2012
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Digital narrative is a battleground. The digital is granular, molecularized, particular. Narrative, on the other hand, has an arching, linear trajectory that pulls us along with it. The two are at war with each other as the drive for fragmentation threatens to shatter the rhythmic ebb and flow of the narrative impulse.