Black Box Blog Post 10/5/2020

I found the liberating straitjacket section of the Staggered Transmission article to be particularly compelling. The serialization occurring on Twitter and across other social media platforms is confined to this sequential, waiting style of writing, but the example of haiku’s opens up the conversation to having “Twitter” literature held in the same regard as other, more traditional forms of literature are. Constrictions apply to all different styles of writing, but the way that this straitjackets can be flipped around and become liberating is exactly what we are seeing with Twitter writing, just as the article mentions this is what we see with haiku’s. I should also add I greatly enjoyed reading “Black Box.” I thought it was a fantastic example of working within the restrictions of this new-age serialization, as it was no less interesting or descriptive or enjoyable to read than a traditional short story.