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ALFJAG, Animal Liberation Front Give Mice and Rats Freedom, 2006, 4 minutes.


DATABASE AS A SYMBOLIC FORM

After the novel, and subsequently cinema, privileged narrative as the key form of cultural expression of the modern age, the computer age introduces its correlate – database. Many new media objects do not tell stories; they don't have beginning or end; in fact, they don't have any development, thematically, formally or otherwise which would organize their elements into a sequence. Instead, they are collections of individual items, where every item has the same significance as any other.
~ Lev Manovich, from The Language of New Media (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 218-43.