Janet Murray, "Transformation"

(In Hamlet on the Holodeck)

- Pleasure of transformation, variety
- How to handle mutability, fragmentation
- Kaleidoscopic narrative, repeated (re)organization of fragments/elements
- Multiple points of view
- Digital narratives can reflect our contemporary conception of the world as always multiple
- Problems of conclusion
- Solving of the narrative puzzle vs saturation
- Transformative power of enacting stories
- Virtual worlds as practice
- Murray dichotomizes stories that are escapist and stories that are "progressive" (ie: that affect the real world)
- Closure as exhaustion (of reader or of possibilities), not completion - understanding the structure, not the story necessarily
- Endless transformation vs finite mortality
- Labyrinths, webs, simulations
- Importance of process
- Repetition, exploration of multiple instances from different perspectives