{"id":460,"date":"2020-02-26T04:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/?p=460"},"modified":"2020-02-26T04:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:16:29","slug":"decision-dakota-and-sensory-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/2020\/02\/26\/decision-dakota-and-sensory-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision, Dakota, and Sensory Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDakota\u201d represents for me some of my initial frustrations with interactive fictive texts like \u201cQueers in Love at The End of The World.\u201d Like \u201cQueers in Love,\u201d \u201cDakota\u201d arrests readerly agency in the process of reading. Jessica Pressman deems this a \u201csubversion\u201d of \u201cclose-reading\u201d in her book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital Modernism (<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pressman 97).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But, increasingly, I have been asking myself what the extent of transgressive digital texts does for the reader. From the perspective of reader response, the answer is seemingly well, little. The texts are frustrating, and at worst alienating, and though they may mirror the content of the subject matter they deal with, I am forced to wonder what the point of having a text that one cannot truly dig into is? Perhaps digital texts like these however should not be read in relation to \u201cliterature\u201d and require a different logical parameter when approaching them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What if \u201clogical\u201d is itself a false parameter by which to approach digital fiction? Seemingly, \u201cDakota\u201d offers an immersive experience into fast-paced youth and drunken stupor. \u201cDakota\u201d offers more of a feeling than a narrative, and embodies relations and sensations more than it does story. It\u2019s disorienting use of fragmentation, flashing, and rhythmic drums offers something akin to, as Pressman states, a \u201ccinematic\u201d experience (Pressman 88).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think this also prompts questions about readerly agency. In the CYOA books, readers for the most part were allowed to assert their own decision making within the story universe. But in Dakota, as Pressman acknowledges, the point of \u201cDakota\u201d is\u00a0 antithetical to interactivity (Pressman 82). Especially in an age where we have so much individual control over our devices, Dakota seems to divorce us of that agency. But as a reader, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d gravitate to fiction like that, even if I understand the creativity and thesis of the project. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDakota\u201d represents for me some of my initial frustrations with interactive fictive texts like \u201cQueers in Love at The End of The World.\u201d Like \u201cQueers in Love,\u201d \u201cDakota\u201d arrests readerly agency in the process of reading. Jessica Pressman deems this a \u201csubversion\u201d of \u201cclose-reading\u201d in her book Digital Modernism (Pressman 97). 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