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Resisting the Epic

Interactive essay about how digital creators compromise themselves.

Year 1999
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Web application
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At the piece begins, its argument is laid out in linear fashion, reflecting the epic mindset’s tendencies to create static structures.

Resisting the Epic is an interactive essay adapted from a talk given at the 1999 Interactive Frictions conference about the ways in which the lust for an epic canvas can compromise digital creators.

At the piece begins, its argument is laid out in linear fashion, reflecting the epic mindset’s tendencies to create static structures.
Once the user begins to reshape the argument, placing pieces of it inside the box, the text begins to disintegrate.
Upon placing the whole argument inside the box, the user simultaneously destroys the text and symbolically achieves the bounded condition so conducive to creativity in the digital world.