[henry quirk]

Dave Gray said,
April 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Hi Henry,

Since I am focused primarily on works that entail understanding and codifying a discipline or field of study, I don’t have much to say about the unbook as a vehicle for fiction. I suppose my aim with the unbook has been far more textbook-oriented.

Since collaboration and consensus (and divisiveness!) are part of the process by which any group defines and organizes itself, I think an unbook could form a useful and necessary hub or focusing device to help define and codify a new discipline or area of study.

I am a painter as well as an author, and I can’t imagine a collaborative, consensus-oriented approach to painting would do anything other than dilute my vision and water down the work.

I didn’t mean to suggest that the author retaining control of an unbook is a requirement — only that it is an option.

I tend to think that if I wrote fiction it would be similar to the way that I paint — a more solitary pursuit. So we might not disagree as much as you might think

I’m not sure whether the unbook has been supplanted by the next thing or not. Maybe so. I’m planning to stick around for awhile though and hope to continue exploring and prototyping the idea.

henry quirk said,
April 9th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I am a painter as well as an author, and I can’t imagine a collaborative, consensus-oriented approach to painting would do anything other than dilute my vision and water down the work.

(((my point exactly!)))

(((so: we meander ’round the two sides the mountain to arrive at the same camp in the hills…good on us both)))

I’m planning to stick around for awhile though and hope to continue exploring and prototyping the idea

(((i’ll check in from time to time…i have an interest too: a kind of ‘keep your enemies close’ thing… –henry)))