(2010-10-28) Bridle Gibson Network Realism

James Bridle is Framing William Gibson's Zero History as "Network Realism": Network Realism is writing that is of and about the Network. It’s Realism because it’s so close to our present reality. A realism that posits an increasingly 1:1 relationship between Fiction and the World (Real World). A realtime link. And it’s networked because it lives in a place that’s that’s enabled by, and only recently made possible by, our technological connectedness. Zero History is Network Realism because of the way that it talks about the world, and the way its knowledge of the world is gathered and disseminated. Gibson seems to be navigating the spider graph of current reality as wikiracing does human knowledge... If I’m writing the first outline of Network Realism—a manifesto can’t be far behind—then we need some other examples...