{"id":37302,"date":"2012-03-16T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/while-not-one-to-contradict-gibson-himself-im\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:35:21","slug":"while-not-one-to-contradict-gibson-himself-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/while-not-one-to-contradict-gibson-himself-im\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While not one to contradict Gibson himself, I\u2019m not sure I buy this exactly: indeed, the wikihistoriography project was, in part, a refutation of this view. But it\u2019s undeniable that something is happening, a network effect produced by the sudden visibility of just how unevenly distributed those futures are. I want to give it a name, and at this point I\u2019m calling it Network Realism. Network Realism is writing that is of and about the network. It\u2019s realism because it\u2019s so close to our present reality. A realism that posits an increasingly 1:1 relationship between Fiction and the World. A realtime link. And it\u2019s networked because it lives in a place that\u2019s that\u2019s enabled by, and only recently made possible by, our technological connectedness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/network-realism\/\">Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of Fiction | booktwo.org<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not one to contradict Gibson himself, I\u2019m not sure I buy this exactly: indeed, the wikihistoriography project was, in part, a refutation of this view. But it\u2019s undeniable that something is happening, a network effect produced by the sudden visibility of just how unevenly distributed those futures are. I want to give it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9HE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}