Word: non-linearity
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Bruce Kushnik, a 25-yr old Cambridge composer and Brandeis grad, was sitting in the Mather House dining hall recently, animatedly explaining his theory of music--the distinction between linear and non-linear perception of time in music, or the structural differences between written forms of music and music conceived without notation...
...sometimes unconnected glimpses into their lives, attempts to reproduce on film the texture of everyday life. Just as affairs in reality are a series of fits and starts, with little coherence while they are experienced, so Paul and Adriana's passion and despair, their conversations and lovemaking, occur in non-linear succession, separated from one another by the flash on the screen of the day's date and the unsettling sound of random, atonal notes played on percussion instruments...
Sloan describes his latest work as an attempt to explore the "question of connection between planes of reality"--an experiment in the non-linear story popularized by John Barth. In fact, the book is nothing less than a thorough annihilation of the concept of rationality, a "stoic" work in the very audicity with which it posits the insanity of normalcy...
More generally, comics encourage a non-linear, non-chronological kind of reading, a sense of the story as being all-present. In this way, comics are a possible source for the single most remarkable characteristic of Resnais's style--the handling of time...
Rudolph Wurlitzer proves in Nog that the creation of a mind-altering experience need not entail abandonment of conventional verbal expression. He has written a book, a linear book with no non-linear tricks, a book that Gutenberg would recognize as a book, that takes as powerful control over the reader as any of the other approaches people have rediscovered or invented...