Week 8- Divergent Streams

 In the last chapter of Scott Rettbergs Electronic Literature, he addresses the remaining genres or ideas within Digital Literature. He starts his chapter by providing readers with what I considered to be a disclaimer, describing how he may have directly stated five core genres but "this set of five genres also does not exhaust the categories of practice that could have been extensively detailed in this book." (Rettberg, Electronic Literature). These remaining categories or genres include locative narratives (The idea of where we access the literature, via smart phone, tablet etc and the access to the users current location), interactive installations (the idea of taking kinetic text, networking, or storytelling to a performance level rather than electronic), and cinema! He also concluded the entire book by questioning the future of electronic literature, and what might stay or go. I thought it was interesting to think about how fast technology is evolving and how that gives electronic literature authors minimal time to fully develop their piece before a new platform is on the rise. This made me question if users will ever be able to beat technology in terms of time?

The piece of literature I chose was Bubble which I accessed via smartphone. I quickly fell in love with the graphics in this piece, I like the idea of the art moving all around my screen making it very cinematic but also interactive. As far as I can understand the concept revolves around climate change, and your bubble is the planet. You are able to engage at certain points by cleaning or repairing your bubble because the author was repaying consequences of climate change. I unfortunately didn't get through the entire piece because my phone died (a terrible con to digital literature vs print) but I will be sure to finish it when I get the chance. 

For right now, I am questioning if the bubble pops at the end? Are readers able to continuously repair and fix the bubble?