{"id":18,"date":"2004-12-12T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2004-12-12T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T21:58:30","slug":"intertextual_community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/12\/intertextual_community\/","title":{"rendered":"Intertextual Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"12skin.184.jpg\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/12skin.184.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"138\" ALIGN=\"left\" \/> When I read about Shelly Jackson&#8217;s new project&#8211;to &#8220;publish&#8221; a story by tattooing each of its 2,095 words onto the body of a different person&#8211;I thought what a great idea, and  I wondered if it might actually be telling us something about the direction books are going. As the digital book begins to emerge&#8211;glorious, ephemeral, and electric&#8211;are we going to feel compelled to make something even more intimate and rarified as counterpoint?<br \/>\n<a title=\"Skin Literature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/12\/magazine\/12SKIN.html\">&#8220;Skin Literature&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read about Shelly Jackson&#8217;s new project&#8211;to &#8220;publish&#8221; a story by tattooing each of its 2,095 words onto the body of a different person&#8211;I thought what a great idea, and I wondered if it might actually be telling us something about the direction books are going. As the digital book begins to emerge&#8211;glorious, ephemeral, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630,850,898,920,1087,1256,1546,1776,1817],"tags":[2576],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental","category-hypertext","category-intertextuality","category-jackson","category-literature","category-narrative","category-publishing","category-story","category-tattoo","tag-jackson-story-narrative-literature-intertextuality-hypertext-experimental-publishing-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}